Kinyin
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I am not sure I can give you a complete answer but here goes. Copper shield with paracord over it should be fine, that should not hurt anything. Now comes the tricky part, if you have a ground with a shield not attached you can use shielding but there are some caveats. A shield will act as a shield when it covers wires, using it in addition to grounds may cause you to pick up 60 cycle hum on unbalanced equipment. If that happens you should try disconnecting it at different ground points till you eliminate it. See on a coaxial cable, just a center conductor and braided shield, the shield is ground. As long as you are just dealing with the ground and the shield, you can experiment without doing any damage in my opinion but I would feel a lot safer in trying this on my own cable than advising someone else to do it.
Would it just be safer for me to, at the split, branch off the actual ground wire with some of the excess cable I'll have? Splitting the ground at the split, so to speak.
Or is there some other cable other than W2983 that would be better to use? I'm perfectly fine with splitting the ground at the end, but if there's another easier solution I am all ears.
Thanks for the reply! Been following this group for years as a lurker and it's nice to see that everyone is as helpful as I remember.