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Default For Mike Rivers Scott ecc......history of 600 ohm lines


Scott Dorsey wrote:

It's because an open-wire transmission line with five inches between
18 ga. conductors has a characteristic impedance of 600 ohms.


Darn! Why didn't I remember that. Maybe because before 1920 I was still
sending smoke signals and hadn't graduated to electricity.