
Technical Specifications
Product Line: 18-CMP
Description
18 AWG solid core dual shielded RG6 serial digital coaxial cable
NEC type CMP and CEC type CMP FT6. Product manufactured compliant to the requirements of UL444 for
installations and applications in accordance with NEC articles 725, 800 and 820.
Conductor Electrical
18 AWG
Solid annealed bare copper conductors
Diameter: 0.040" | 1.02mm
Conductor DCR: 6.40 Ω / 1000' | 20.99 Ω/KM
Shield DCR: 2.90 Ω / 1000' | 9.51 Ω/KM
Capacitance: 16.0 pF/FT | 52.48 pF/M
Impedance: 75 ± 3 Ω
Velocity of Propagation: 84%
Voltage rating: 300V
SRL 1-450 MHz: -23dB
SRL 451-850 MHz: -21dB
SRL 851-3000 MHz: -15dB
Insulation Regulatory
Foam fluorinated ethylene propylene
Wall thickness: 0.065" | 1.65mm
Diameter: 0.170" | 4.32mm
NEC: CMP 75˚C
CEC: CMP FT6 60˚C
EU RoHS 2002/95/EC Compliant
Color Code Packages
Natural Reel: 1000' | 305M
Weight: 42 Lbs/1000' | 63 Kg/KM
Assembly Installation
N/A Pull Tension: 69 Lbs | 306 N
Bend radius: 2.37" | 61mm unloaded
Bend radius: 4.74" | 122mm loaded
Plenum cable should be conditioned at room temperature for
24 hours prior to installation and never installed below 32˚F |
0˚C ambient temperature
Construct Applications
N/A Plenum Serial Digital Video (SMPTE)
Plenum CATV and DBS modulated video
Plenum baseband video signals
Plenum digital audio unbalanced formats
Shield Performance
100% aluminum/poly/aluminum tape
95% 16x8/34 AWG tinned copper braid shield
3G HDSDI to 240 feet
CATV to 224 feet
CCTV to 532 feet
S/PDIF di
ital audio 500 feet
Jacket Final Outside Diameter (inches)
Plenum rated polyvinyl chloride
Colors: Black, Blue, Green, Red, White, Yellow
Wall thickness: 0.016" | 0.41mm
Diameter: 0.237" | 6.02mm
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Specification Revision Date:
18-CMP Coaxial Sweep to 4.5 GHz
Frequency Attenuation
dB/100FT dB/100m
10.26 0.85
3.58 0.47 1.54
10 0.70 2.30
71.5 1.65 5.41
135 2.39 7.84
270 3.40 11.15
360 4.08 13.38
720 6.05 19.84
1000 7.45 24.44
1200 8.46 27.75
1450 8.61 28.24
1800 10.35 33.95
2500 11.70 38.38
3000 13.07 42.87
3500 13.50 44.28
4000 15.09 49.50
4500 16.01 52.51
Technical Specifications
Product Line: 18-CMP
March 7, 2006