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IEC 61196-4 Edition 3.0 2015-09 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD Coaxial communication cables Part 4:Sectional specification for radiating cables IEC 61196-4:2015-09(en)colourinside THIS PUBLICATION IS COPYRIGHT PROTECTED Copyright 2015 IEC,Geneva,Switzerland All rights reserved.Unless otherwise specified,no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying and microfilm,without permission in writing from either IEC or IECs member National Committee in the country of the requester.If you have any questions about IEC copyright or have an enquiry about obtaining additional rights to this publication,please contact the address below or your local IEC member National Committee for further information.IEC Central Office Tel.:+41 22 919 02 11 3,rue de Varemb Fax:+41 22 919 03 00 CH-1211 Geneva 20 infoiec.ch Switzerland www.iec.ch About the IEC The International Electrotechnical Commission(IEC)is the leading global organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical,electronic and related technologies.About IEC publications The technical content of IEC publications is kept under constant review by the IEC.Please make sure that you have the latest edition,a corrigenda or an amendment might have been published.IEC Catalogue-webstore.iec.ch/catalogue The stand-alone application for consulting the entire bibliographical information on IEC International Standards,Technical Specifications,Technical Reports and other documents.Available for PC,Mac OS,Android Tablets and iPad.IEC publications search-www.iec.ch/searchpub The advanced search enables to find IEC publications by a variety of criteria(reference number,text,technical committee,).It also gives information on projects,replaced and withdrawn publications.IEC Just Published-webstore.iec.ch/justpublished Stay up to date on all new IEC publications.Just Published details all new publications released.Available online and also once a month by email.Electropedia-www.electropedia.org The worlds leading online dictionary of electronic and electrical terms containing more than 30 000 terms and definitions in English and French,with equivalent terms in 15 additional languages.Also known as the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary(IEV)online.IEC Glossary-std.iec.ch/glossary More than 60 000 electrotechnical terminology entries in English and French extracted from the Terms and Definitions clause of IEC publications issued since 2002.Some entries have been collected from earlier publications of IEC TC 37,77,86 and CISPR.IEC Customer Service Centre-webstore.iec.ch/csc If you wish to give us your feedback on this publication or need further assistance,please contact the Customer Service Centre:csciec.ch.IEC 61196-4 Edition 3.0 2015-09 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD Coaxial communication cables Part 4:Sectional specification for radiating cables INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION ICS 33.120.10 ISBN 978-2-8322-2892-0 Registered trademark of the International Electrotechnical Commission Warning!Make sure that you obtained this publication from an authorized distributor.colourinside 2 IEC 61196-4:2015 IEC 2015 CONTENTS FOREWORD.4 1 Scope.6 2 Normative references.6 3 Terms and definitions.8 4 Materials and cable construction.8 4.1 Cable construction.8 4.2 Inner conductor.8 4.2.1 Conductor material.8 4.2.2 Conductor construction.9 4.3 Dielectric.9 4.4 Outer conductor.9 4.5 Sheath.9 5 Standard rating and characteristics.10 5.1 Nominal characteristic impedance.10 5.2 Rated temperature range.10 5.3 Operating frequency.10 6 Identification,marking and labeling.10 6.1 Cable identification.10 6.2 Cable marking.10 6.3 Labelling.10 7 Tests of finished cables.10 7.1 General.10 7.2 Electrical testing of the finished cable(see Table 1).11 7.3 Environmental testing (see Table 2).12 7.4 Mechanical testing(see Table 3).13 7.5 Fire performance testing(see Table 4).14 8 Quality assessment.14 9 Delivery and storage.14 Annex A(normative)Attenuation constant.15 A.1 Procedure.15 A.1.1 General.15 A.1.2 Ground-level method.15 A.1.3 Free-space method.15 A.2 Measurement(see Figures A.1 and A.2).15 A.3 Evaluation.15 A.4 Requirement.16 Annex B(normative)Coupling loss(far field).17 B.1 Procedure.17 B.1.1 General.17 B.1.2 Ground-level method.17 B.1.3 Free-space method.17 B.2 Measurement(see Figures B.3 and B.4).18 B.3 Evaluation.18 B.4 Requirement.19 B.5 Test report.19 IEC 61196-4:2015 IEC 2015 3 Annex C(informative)Coupling loss around circumferential orientation of radiating cable.21 C.1 General.21 C.2 Definitions.21 C.2.1 Coupling loss chart around circumferential orientation of radiating cable(Y-Z).21 C.2.2 Out-of roundness of coupling loss chart around circumferential orientation of radiating cable.21 C.3 Test method.21 C.4 Calculation.22 C.5 Requirements.22 C.6 Test report.22 Annex D(under study)Radiating intensity around circumferential orientation of radiating cable.24 D.1 General.24 D.2 Definitio