coaxial cable
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a transmission line for high-frequency signals
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A coaxial cable has a conductive wire inside a conductive tube, separated by a dielectric layer.
Additional stations along the East Coast and in the Midwest were connected by coaxial cable through the late 1940s, and in September 1951 the first transcontinental telecasts took place.
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) forced television coaxial cable users to rent additional radio long lines, discriminating against DuMont, which had no radio network operation.
A coaxial cable is hung along the path.
A port in this context is a point where an external waveguide or transmission line (such as a microstrip line or a coaxial cable ), connects to the device.
Briefly, if a coaxial cable is open, the termination has nearly infinite resistance, this causes reflections; if the coaxial cable is short-circuited, the termination resistance is nearly zero, there will be reflections with the opposite polarity.