It’s no longer on their website. Curious what the replacement cable is 

Jon Langeler
Michwave Technologies, Inc.


> On Jul 21, 2018, at 8:17 AM, Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Shireen cable is DC-2022 we used..
> 
> Jaime Solorza
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 9:42 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> My guess is that it is likely easier to do the right thing with the 
>> liquidtight conduit.
>> 
>> In a high rf environment one of the best things you can do is to create a 
>> faraday cage consisting of the metal enclosure, the shield around the cat5 
>> cable and the radio shielding/metal enclosure.  If the shield is continuous, 
>> then the rf signal won't be able to enter the twisted pairs themselves.     
>> 
>> In a shielded cat5 environment, you have to take care that the shield itself 
>> is terminated at the entry of the metal enclosure.  This is either 
>> accomplished though stripping the shield back and connecting it directly to 
>> a metal clamp of some sort at the entry point, or some sort of grounded 
>> shieled waterproof feedthrough coupler.
>> 
>> If you use a metal conduit all the way from the box to the radio, this 
>> faraday cage will largely be automatically generated, especially if the 
>> radio is in a metal enclosure such as a 450i.   Even if the radio isn't in a 
>> metal enclosure, as long as the gap is very small, you'll end up with much 
>> of the same benefits.
>> 
>> If you are using a metal enclosure for your electronics, one of the worst 
>> things you can do is to bring the shields inside the metal enclosure without 
>> grounding them at the entry point.   The shields can become little 
>> reradiating antennas inside the enclosure if you don't ground them at the 
>> entry point.
>> 
>> My preference at high rf sites is to ground the shield at a metal enclosure, 
>> and use unshielded cable inside the enclosure.   Adding a ferrite bead just 
>> inside the enclosure can help to filter out any remaining rf.
>> 
>>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 7:35 PM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm curious why Liquidtight works when the foil shield on the Cat5 doesn't. 
>>>  Extra distance from the twists?  Heavier gauge steel?  Do you need to make 
>>> sure the liquid tight is grounded, or just the fact that it's around the 
>>> cat5 is enough?  
>>> 
>>>> On 7/20/2018 7:04 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
>>>> Yeah, that too.  Some folks could not make it work without the 
>>>> liquidtight. 
>>>>  
>>>> From: Sean Heskett
>>>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2018 5:38 PM
>>>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ethernet problems next to FM Antenna
>>>>  
>>>> Put all Ethernet cables inside shielded liquidtight flex conduit.  You can 
>>>> buy it st an electrical supply shop.
>>>>  
>>>> Be sure to run the conduit to a metal box at the top and then breakout to 
>>>> each ap in smaller shielded conduit.
>>>>  
>>>> -sean
>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:35 AM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> It looks like the old archives aren't back online yet, so I couldn't go 
>>>>> searching through there for ideas.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a site where we have been co-locating with a 800w FM Transmitter 
>>>>> for years.  We've always had Ethernet problems at the site since the FM 
>>>>> went in.  Everything is shielded cat5 (Belden 7919).  It is at a grain 
>>>>> elevator, our equipment is on one corner of the platform, and the FM 
>>>>> Transmitter is on the other corner.  We are horizontally separated by 
>>>>> about 10 feet.  There is no way to get vertical separation.  I used to 
>>>>> run all the cables down to the bottom of the leg, about 100'.  In an 
>>>>> effort to make the Ethernet work better, I installed an Edgepoint fed 
>>>>> with Fiber at the top, so cable lengths between the radios and the 
>>>>> Edgepoint are now 5'-10'. With the FM Transmitter turned off, everything 
>>>>> runs perfectly.  When the FM is turned on, most equipment drops to 
>>>>> 100mb, and some goes down to 10mb.  On the most problematic equipment, I 
>>>>> have installed the 4 pair FM Filters from Sandman  
>>>>> http://www.sandman.com/rf.html within 12" of both the switch and the 
>>>>> radio.  It made no change.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What FM Elimination tricks have I forgotten to try?  I was really 
>>>>> expecting the short cable lengths to solve the problem.
>>>>> 
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