John, You will save yourself a lot of grief by using real transformer isolation at each end in addition to balanced lines. The $12 dollar ones at RS will work fine for communication audio frequencies. If you want to go first class find some WE111 repeat coils.
For wire CAT 5 will work and give you four pairs to play with. Some E and M signaling or COR maybe.? Al, K9SI, retired BC engineer (now occasional highly paid consultant) LOOONG audio runs Posted by: "JOHN MACKEY" jmac...@usa.net jmackey_usa_net Date: Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:49 pm ((PST)) I have a odd situation where I need to run long audio cables between my repeater controller and two repeaters. In this case, the repeater controller will be connected to 2 repeaters in the same cabinette. The other two repeaters will connected thru about 140 feet of wiring to the other side of a building. I am thinking of using balanced audio wires for the long runs and using Henry Engineeering boxes to convert between balanced/un-balanced at each end. Anyone ever done long audio runs like this? Am I over engineering it and unbalanced will be good enough? I use the Henry Engineering boxes for several audio conversions in broadcasting, here is a link for what they are: http://www.henryeng.com/matchbox.html