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• Manuel – Compendium of Cable Measurement Methods – 1984
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• CHAPTER I – GENERAL ASPECTS OF CABLE MEASUREMENT METHODS
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Purpose of the Compendium
  • 3 General remarks concerning the parameters measured on the cables
  • 4 Classification of measurement methods according to use
• CHAPTER II – MEASUREMENTS MADE ON COAXIAL CABLE PAIRS
  • 1 Measurement of impedance
    • 1.1 General aspects of measurements of impedance in coaxial pairs
    • 1.2 Principle of measurements relating to the impedance of coaxial pairs
    • 1.3 Impedance measurements on coaxial pairs
    • 1.4 Use of different methods for measuring impedance according to application
    • ANNEX 1 – Effect of leakance on impedance measurements. Expression of the impedance of coaxial pairs at high frequencies
    • ANNEX 2 – Accuracy of methods for determining resonance frequencies
  • 2 Measurement of attenuation coefficient
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Methods of attenuation measurement by direct substitution
    • 2.3 Methods of attenuation measurement by indirect substitution
    • 2.4 Alternatives to the substitution and comparison techniques
    • 2.5 Attenuation measurements on installed cables
    • 2.6 Presentation of measurement results
    • 2.7 Application of the various measurement methods of the attenuation coefficient of coaxial pairs
  • 3 Measurement of speed and propagation time
    • 3.1 Foreword
    • 3.2 Pulse echo delay measurement
    • 3.3 TDR delay measurement
    • 3.4 Opposition method
    • 3.5 Resonance analysis
    • 3.6 Application of the various measuring methods
    • APPENDIX 1 – Error due to parasitic reactances in echo delay measurement
    • APPENDIX 2 – Correlation between the propagation velocities and characteristic impedances of coaxial pairs. Its use in the accurate evaluation of pair length and of attenuation loss
  • 4 Measurement of impedance regularity
    • A – GENERAL ASPECTS OF MEASURING THE REGULARITY OF IMPEDANCE
    • B – MEASUREMENTS CARRIED OUT BY MEANS OF PULSES [5]
      • B1 – MEASUREMENT OF BACKWARD ECHO
      • B2 – MEASUREMENT OF FORWARD ECHO
      • B3 – A VARIANT OF MEASUREMENTS CARRIED OUT USING PULSES
    • C – MEASUREMENTS CARRIED OUT USING A SINUSOIDAL SIGNAL
      • C1 – MEASUREMENTS OF THE BACKWARD REFLECTED WAVE DUE TO IRREGULARITIES
      • C2 – MEASUREMENTS RELATED TO FORWARD REFLECTED WAVE
    • D – USE OF DIFFERENT METHODS OF MEASURING IMPEDANCE REGULARITY ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF TESTS
      • D1 – MEASUREMENTS CARRIED OUT ON SECTIONS TO BE USED ON ANALOGUE SYSTEMS
      • D2 – MEASUREMENTS CARRIED OUT ON SECTIONS TO BE USED ON DIGITAL SYSTEMS
      • D3 – EVOLVING TRENDS IN METHODS OF MEASURING IMPEDANCE IRREGULARITY
  • 5 Measurement of crosstalk
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Measurement of crosstalk using the comparison method
    • 5.3 Measurement of crosstalk using insertion loss method
    • 5.4 Crosstalk measurements on installed cables
    • 5.5 Surface transfer impedance (screening performance)
    • 5.6 Application of different methods of measuring crosstalk in coaxial cables
• CHAPTER III – MEASUREMENTS MADE ON SYMMETRIC CABLE PAIRS
  • 1 Measurement of impedance
    • 1.1 General aspects of symmetric pair impedance measurements
    • 1.2 Principle of the measurement of impedance on symmetric pairs
    • 1.3 Impedance measurements on symmetric pairs
    • 1.4 Use of various methods for measuring the impedance of symmetric pairs according to the purpose of the tests
  • 2 Measurement of attenuation coefficient
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Precautions
    • 2.3 The most commonly used measurement methods
  • 3 Measurement of speed and propagation time
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Pulse echo delay measurement
    • 3.3 TDR delay measurement
    • 3.4 Opposition method
    • 3.5 Resonance analysis
    • 3.6 Application of the various measuring methods
  • 4 Measurement of crosstalk
    • 4.1 Crosstalk measurements using sinusoidal signals
    • 4.2 General principles
    • 4.3 Measurement method
    • 4.4 Operation
    • ANNEX – Relationship between r.m.s. noise voltages and error rates