Find a telephone company storage yard and steal it. Or if you are not that adventurous, or just plain out of shape...
You can get CAT-5 Shielded Twisted pair. But you will need to splice it your self, And I think the longest you can get it is 1000 feet. And look to spend $80 to $150 per box times 4. And then you have to worry about line loss, ground loops and lightning strikes, Oh and did I mention what happens when some one inadvertently digs it up? A cheaper and often overlooked alternative is using 2 pairs of modified 2.4 GHz Wavecom wireless video links. These provide 1 video path plus 2 audio channels and you could send 15 kHz "Cue Tone" down the video line to signal COS and PTT back and forth, and the audio bandwidth is sufficient (50Hz to 15kHz) to pass PL tones or straight discriminator audio. Or if you are really psycho, you could send the 455 kHz Second IF of the RX down the video line. Going into 2 coffee cans for antennas it should make 3500 feet easy, and it should cost about $100 - $150 for both pairs, depending where you get them. And they can run on 12 volt battery power, Ideal for solar applications. --Matt Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
