Peel back a few inches of jacket. Pull the drain wire back along the wire. Install connector with drain wire coming out the back. Ground the drain wire.
Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > Does anyone know how you use shielded cat 5 when the radio's are all Tranzeo > with their plastic Ethernet port??? Trying to solve a interference problem > with some hams myself. > > Kurt Fankhauser > WAVELINC > P.O. Box 126 > Bucyrus, OH 44820 > 419-562-6405 > www.wavelinc.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of jp > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:30 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Amateur repeater on a wisp tower -- gotchas? > > Yep, use shielded ethernet cable and there won't be problems. Even use > shielded indoors. > > Being they are not doing for money, the amatuer crowd is also somewhat apt > to ignore OSHA and many of the modern safety concepts like fall protection. > Unless you specify your safety requirements, you might see a guy up on your > tower in an old bosuns chair with 30 year old rope, or perhaps an old pole > climbing belt. I agree they could be a good folks to know and work with; > they could be a good inside connection to lots of other towers and > businesses. If you have any electrical and RF skills, it's not much work to > get an amatuer radio license; read a book, take a couple classes, and take > a test. Morse code is optional. At the very least, they'd feel better > understood and some camraderie if you got a license. > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:37:11AM -0400, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > >> In my experiences with 2 meter ham gear that is around Ethernet there is a >> lot of interference from the Ethernet to the ham guys stuff. I've never >> > seen > >> the ham guys cause interference though to any wifi gear. >> >> Ham guys are a whole different breed of folk and depending on how these >> > ones > >> your talking to are they may be an invaluable asset to you or they may be >> your worst nightmare. The ones around my area are the later and anyone >> > that > >> gets involved with them end up regretting it later down the road. >> >> Just my 2 cents, >> >> Kurt Fankhauser >> WAVELINC >> P.O. Box 126 >> Bucyrus, OH 44820 >> 419-562-6405 >> www.wavelinc.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of Mike >> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:17 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: [WISPA] Amateur repeater on a wisp tower -- gotchas? >> >> Wispers: >> >> I have a 180' tower sitting high on a hill above the county seat. It >> has a mix of 5.8 and 2.4 radios and sectors/dishes. We want to >> install an amateur repeater on the tower, initially at 70 cm (440MHz >> UHF), and eventually a 2 m (144MHz VHF) radio. The dual band antenna >> feed point will be at 120'. It is 17' long. There is no microwave >> equipment below 160'. >> >> I don't think there will be any issues with interference either way, >> but thought I'd tap into the wealth of knowledge here to see if any >> of you has any experience doing anything like this on your towers. >> >> Is there any mixing at uhf (or VHF) going on in the microwave radio >> cards? I can't find specs that even speak of intermediate >> frequencies. Gotchas? Hints? Comments? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mike G >> >> At 06:38 PM 10/26/2009, you wrote: >> >>> My 24 hours is expiring and I don't want to pull this unit down. >>> Mikrotik's site wants me to authorize my credit card, a process I've >>> begun but my credit card company won't post the transaction for a few >>> days. Can anyone sell me a level 4 license for an x86 machine now? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Greg >>> >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >>> WISPA Wants You! 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