On November 16, 2019 at 14:53, Mac Burks (39) said...
I discovered this also. I strip to expose center conductor and connect 1 lead there and grounding (to actual ground or by having another person hold the lead) the other lead.
Think things through.
You should be connecting to the ground, as you do, and to the shield. Remember that the shield limits radiation like this from coming out of the wire. For this kind of testing you want the greatest possible radiation of test signal.
The purpose of the shield in normal use is to keep signals outside the wire from getting to the wire, and to keep signals on the wire from getting outside the wire. This testing is not normal use and we want to exploit what the wire parts
can do rather than what we usually use it for. (This is
exactly what I meant in an earlier post when I said I like to know more about the things we're dealing with than is required for normal use.)
When you connect your toner's hot lead to the inside conductor of a shielded cable, but the shield is not grounded, then
some signal from the center conductor will leak out. That is what you've been testing with.
Connect the toner to the actual shield! Then
all the signal will radiate off the wire.
That is, unless the shield is grounded somewhere.