Generating an assessment of the suitability of cables, ducts, tubes, pipes and/or other hollow-type of conduits to extraction of cores, conductors, insulation, etc. included therein while still buried in the ground or otherwise positioned out-of-sight so as to be unavailable for visual and/or physical inspection is contemplated. The assessment may be used to indicate a suitability of a cable buried in the ground of a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) cable plant to extraction of the type whereby a core of the cable may be extracted using hydraulics while still buried.

Generating an assessment of the suitability of cables, ducts, tubes, pipes and/or other hollow-type of conduits to extraction of cores, conductors, insulation, etc. included therein while still buried in the ground or otherwise positioned out-of-sight so as to be unavailable for visual and/or physical inspection is contemplated. The assessment may be used to indicate a suitability of a cable buried in the ground of a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) cable plant to extraction of the type whereby a core of the cable may be extracted using hydraulics while still buried.

A transmission line, in particular of the rigid type and for a radiofrequency power application, includes: a first conductor having a tubular shape; a second conductor, concentrically and coaxially positioned inside said first conductor; a dielectric, in particular consisting of air, positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor; a connector having a body adapted to be coupled to a terminal tract of the first conductor, wherein the connector includes at least one first connection element adapted to be inserted, at least partially, into a seat formed in one end of the second conductor, in particular the at least one first connection element including a substantially tubular first portion from which a plurality of first elastic tabs extend. The second conductor includes a second connection element at least partially positioned in the seat, the second connection element being adapted to be coupled to the first connection element by inserting it into a cavity of the first connection element.