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Every wire is also an antenna that is attenuated to the appropriate frequencies related to the length of the wire.

A 2 meter cable also receives on 144 MHz any spurious signals (amateur radio band). If that was an EMP, it would send a voltage spike up the port and blow out whatever it hit.




Oh, I thought you meant that the faraday cage would interfere with the wires conducting electrical signals




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