I've had three indoor pieces of cat5 strung about 150 feet in the air for
the last 6 years w/o a problem. (in Michigan, between my house and the
neighbors)
I didn't expect it to last one winter.
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From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:46 PM
To: Roger (K8RI)
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] network cable outdoors
I know where there are several 1000 foot spools of outdoor type network
cable. I have hundereds of feet of this stuff in service at my station.
Some buried, some not, but even the buried stuff of 7 years looks almost
new.
I do not know how many are left but if you are interested contact me
directly and I will give you the contact info.
Bob
> This is a little late, but I discovered the message sitting in the spam
> filter at my ISP.
>
>
>>I just saw an item in the ARRL Contest Rate Sheet recommending a couple
>> of
>> URLs on this subject. Both say that ordinary indoor network cable will
>> deteriorate quickly outdoors.
>>
>> That's probably true for fast data, but I have been using both
>> 4-conductor
>
> I have several types of CAT5e cable I use. The pink stuff is used indoors
> or
> in conduit, but I have a run of the white that is much more flexible tht
> just lays on the ground between the garage and shop. It's been there for
> over 2 years with no problems so far and that is a gigabit network, not
> 100
> baseT. OTOH my primary network cable to the shop runs through PVC conduit
> underground and the older white cable is going to be relegated to serving
> as
> a telephone line with lots of extra wires.
>
>> indoor telephone cable and 8-conductor indoor CAT3 networking cable for
>> connections between my shack and my tower some 200 feet away for the
>> last
>> 7-8 years. I control two TopTen 6-way relay boxes, an array of A/B
>> selectors, and a homebrew 80m array switchbox through these cables. I
>> had
>> to boost the shack-end voltage to about 14 volts to get reliable relay
>> switching at the tower end, but in terms of reliability I'm quite
>
> I use rotator cable for these jobs. It's certainly overkill and something
> I
> had to pay money for while the CAT5e cable was free. I find the network
> cable is just too fragile with the small wires. Either that or I'm too
> heavy
> handed with the stuff.
>
> BTW I purchased a 1000 foot spool of rotator cable when I put up the tower
> which was well before the price went up. <:-))
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
>
> <snip>>
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
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