[TowerTalk] CAT 5 for SteppIR Remote Driver?

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 25 20:11:29 PDT 2012


On 7/25/12 6:34 PM, K8RI wrote:
> On 7/25/2012 9:23 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>> On 7/25/2012 1:15 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>> Do I need a separate CAT 5 cable for each antenna's Remote Driver, or can a
>>> single CAT 5's four pairs handle two SteppIR antennas?
>>
>> CAT5 is great cable, and has great noise (and RF) immunity if you use a
>> pair for each signalling (or control) circuit, BUT it's pretty small
>> gauge,
>
> And solid so it's pretty fragile.
>

what you want to do is terminate it in a decent punchdown block or 
similar terminal block at each end that doesn't move.  Once you install 
the wire, you should never need to move it, so the fragility isn't a big 
deal.  Millions of miles of cat 5 are installed this way with very few 
problems.

Use something else for a flexing connection.




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