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I don't if I would call it a "horror story". A horror story would be that someone bought cheap coax cables off Aliexpress, and when they hooked them up all of t
by mikestew 4y ago
I don't if I would call it a "horror story". A horror story would be that someone bought cheap coax cables off Aliexpress, and when they hooked them up all of the smoke came out of the radio.
In this case, the radio operator hooked up the cables and weren't transmitting as well as they thought they should be. Some measurements indicated that the cables were signal-attenuating crap. Cables that were purchased from AliExpress. It's almost as if one gets to the end your campfire story, and one of the campers pipes up and says, "don't tell me, the call was coming from inside the house?", only I piped up at the beginning and said to myself, "coax cables from AliExpress? Don't tell me, you found out that about half the transmission power went to creating heat and not radio signals."
- dylan604 4y agoI don't know, about the requirement of smoke to be a horror story. I have been in my own cabling hell, and no smoke was ever present. Cabling issues can be tricky, especially when they are intermittent. Everything works except when you sit in a chair. That chair with weight puts pressure on something that then squeezes something else. Specific example of something that happened. I've managed post production facilities where there were thousands of cables running in multiples to/from various pieces of gear. You can pre-terminate, test, label all at a work bench with whatever test equipment you like, but once you start running the cables in, through, under, over other cables, plumbing, etc, things can just get weird.