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 | Subject: velocity factor table Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:27 am | |
| Hello All Could someone provide a link or paste an image of a table that shows velocity factor of different materials? I mean materials for rods or tubings that we can use for antena building. For example: copper | 0.95 | aluminium | xxx | stainless steel | xxx | brass | xxx |
I guess I'm too impatient or I lack of skills for internet searching, cause I cannot find such info. Regards | |
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 | Subject: Re: velocity factor table Mon Jul 13, 2020 6:46 pm | |
| Solid dielectric (coax) = .66 Foam dielectric = .85(?) | |
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 | Subject: Re: velocity factor table Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:26 pm | |
| Its not based on the metal, its based on the dielectric used. Its not that metals don't have a velocity factor, but all of them including stainless steel (which is the worst metal for velocity factor used for antenna builds) has a velocity factor higher than .99. Velocity factor is determined mostly by a feed line's dielectric, the most common ones for 50 ohm coax were listed by BigTone, although that isn't necessarily all of them. Here are some examples... 95–99 | Open-wire "Ladder" Line | 93 | HJ8-50B 3 inch Heliax coaxial cable (air dielectric) | 86 | RG-8 Belden 7810A coaxial cable (gas-injected foam high-density polyethylene) | 83 | RG-6 Belden 1189A coaxial cable, RG-11 Belden 1523A coaxial cable | 82 | RG-8X Belden 9258 coaxial cable (foamed polyethylene dielectric) | 80 | Belden 9085 twin-lead | 77 | RG-8/U generic (foamed polyethylene) | 66 | Belden 8723 twin shielded twisted pair stranded (polypropylene insulator) | 66 | RG-213 CXP213 (solid polyethylene dielectric) |
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