The phrase "a cable from a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the source or origin of a cable in a technical or descriptive context.
Example: "I need to connect the device using a cable from a power source."
Alternatives: "a wire from a" or "a cord from a".
Building one would mean lowering a cable from a satellite in a geosynchronous orbit above the Earth's equator while deploying a counterbalancing cable out into space.
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When the weather turns cold, he runs a cable from a telescope in his backyard into a computer within the house.
We use the traction power of a kite sail to pull a cable from a drum that drives a generator on the ground.
Then he ran a cable from a computer to a clinical waveform generator, a device that translates heart rhythm and blood pressure into electrical impulses, and which biomedical engineers use to test the accuracy of hospital equipment.
Two men in life vests, who stand on the swaying deck in spray that curls like smoke, let go a fifty-pound ball that drops on a cable from a big stainless reel.
AS WikiLeaks's trove of diplomatic dispatches continues to trickle out, one recent release has caused quite a stir: a cable from an American diplomat who said he was told by a Saudi oil executive that both official estimates of Saudi oil reserves and their ability to meet global demand in the long run have been vastly exaggerated.
He drops to a knee, runs a cable from an output into an input, turns a knob a millimeter.
They ran a cable from the dish through a window into their living room.
Once these forces landed, it was believed, they would be led by Morgan, whom a cable from the U.S. Embassy described as "an enigma".
Then early last month, a third reactor shut down at Genkai after a worker mistakenly pulled out a cable from the unit's condenser vacuum, causing the turbine to stop.
