We've had for many years access to a non-live AM radio tower (by non-live, the antennas are mounted on the sides of the tower, insulated, look like long steel cables). For a long time we ran AC to the top, into a small choke/transformer (some little gizmo) that filtered the AM radio signal, along with a fiber cable to the bottom. A lightning strike zapped all the equipment a few years ago, and we never replaced it. The time has come that we need to put equipment on it again.
I'd like to move towards running POE to the bottom, and at the top would be Nanostations 2/5's. The tower is 160 ft tall self-supporting. I was thinking about running shielded twisted pair cable. In the past we've been able to run short lengths of CAT5 at the top from the main power box, but the last time any experimentation was done with CAT5 was with a former partner, and the now deceased engineer that used to run the radio station. Would the shielded cable remove the interference/static charge/etc or is this just not possible? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
