For what you are trying to accomplish, the old Orthogon/Motorola/Cambium "grounding gland" approach might work better, if it's a radio that can accept the metal gland that actually connects to the shield on the cable. Note that BBDGE does not have a "drain wire".
I believe I have successfully terminated BBDGE with the type of shielded connector that has a strain relief that crimps around the cable, like from Sentinel or L-Com. The inner jacket on BBDGE is quite soft, not sure if that's a blessing or a curse. Also the marshallow fluff inside the cable tends to get into everything, expect the body of the connector to fill up with fluff. -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 11:24 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BBDGE Termination and Grounding I've found armored cable virtually impossible to do a quality termination on. I've wondered if it would be better to terminate them "close" to the endpoint with a small punch block inside an enclosure, then finish the job with something a bit easier to do a decent RJ45 termination on? Something like this: https://www.zoro.com/hubbell-premise-wiring-wiring-block-6-pair-6-x-6-block-size-hpw66b36/i/G1448291/feature-product?utm_source=google&utm_medium=surfaces&utm_campaign=shopping%20feed&utm_content=free%20google%20shopping%20clicks bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 9/30/2020 8:44 AM, Nate Burke wrote: > Does anyone sell custom length, per-terminated BBDGE cable? I have an > application where I need the copper cladding tied to the shielded RJ45. > > Also, has anyone used grounding kits on the cable for mid-span > grounding? Will Coax cable kits work on it? > > It's been years since I've worked with that cable, I think back when > it had to be punched into the PTP400 LPU Units. I remember it being a > pain to field terminate. > > One of our tower sites just put up antennas at 6.9, 9.2 and 14.7mhz > and it's causing all kinds of Ethernet problems for our cables that > pass through their array. They want to run at 5-6kw, and we start > having problems when they go over 2kw. They are hoping that if we > change to the BBDGE cable with lots of Grounding, it will fix the > problems. Already have Coils at the top and bottom on Beldon7919 > cable. That got us from 400w failure to 2kw failure. > > > -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
