On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:17 AM, jim <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, that is the one, but Newark is very much high in price, about double > or > triple I think. >
I suspect that tax and shipping are going to come to more than the cost of the connector no matter what I do. I recently bought a bunch of toggle switches for a PDP-8 I was building and the shipping was as much as the cost of all the switches. :-) So it probably doesn't matter if I order from Newark or someone else who is cheaper. Also, the crimp connectors are different for stranded and for solid conductor UTP cable. Most Ethernet is solid-conductor 24AWG wire but the stranded wire conductor has a greater diameter for the same AWG thus requiring a different crimp connector. (I found that out by making a large number of Ethernet patch cables using the wrong one and having to go back, cut off, and reterminate every one.) And the only reason I don't really want to make one out of an existing flexible Ethernet cable is the lack of an electrostatic shield on the cable. I have made cables that way but would prefer to have a cable that is better shielded from RF pick-up. If the mic input was really differential then that would be one thing but it is single-ended and so I think that an electrostatic shield is a good idea. Thanks for the pointers guys! -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 3191 Western Dr. Cameron Park, CA 95682 [email protected] +1.767.617.1365 (Dominica) +1.931.492.6776 (USA) (+1.931.4.WB6RQN) _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
