At 12:17 AM 3/11/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Sorry, Sean.  The resistance in parallel would be the resistance of the
>insulator between the two conductors, not the resistance of the wire,
>itself.  This is typically *very* high.  To make calculation easier, it is
>typically specified as a certain conductance per unit length (conductance
>is just the reciprocal of resistance).
>
> - Rick "micro-mhos per meter" Dickinson

Hi Rick,

I thought that the original questioner was referring to a single conductor
wire, not coax. For coax, of course my calculation would not be correct.

Sean

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