I use an I.D. mate bar code reader.   Less for coax than for the other 
stuff in the shack: all pc and usb cables, and all the wallwarts and 
other DC wires running around.   If the bar code is cut in half, you get 
2 identical barcodes, so I put 1 half at each end of the cable.    If 
something gets unplugged I can scan it and know where it goes, or if I 
want to know what that particular wall wart is powering.

Not tactual, and not cheap, but  another use for the scanner besides 
telling me what  is in that can or box from the supermarket.



73, Steve KW3A

On 3/29/2014 5:20 PM, Butch Bussen wrote:
> Speaking of such things, how do you folks mark your coax or antenna
> cables.  Long ago I use to use those heavy luggage card board tags with a
> string.  I don't know if you can even buy them any more.
> I have thought of getting a pen friend.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
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