If it were me I'd talk to the guys at freenet-antennas.com Last I checked they're all techies/physicists - no sales guys. They don't have what you want, but they'd probably have a fair few ideas on where you could get it, or what a suitable alternative would be.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:33 AM, James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a non-networking project that requires category 5/5e STP (not "UTP"!! > - I *need* the shielded variety). No big deal, except I can't find anywhere > that will sell it to me in arbitrary lengths. They all want to provide > either a patch cable (that isn't long enough) or a bulk roll (>100m > usually). I need approximately 15m - second hand is fine, stranded or solid > core is not important; either will suffice. > > For the curious; I'm re-wiring an electronic anemometer which has problems > with interference from low frequency EMI. The system uses a high impedance, > low voltage signalling technique over 2 pair "telephone" type cable (no > shielding). The combination of no shielding and the low voltage+high > impedance basically turns the cable run into a giant static discharge > detector/antenna! This manifests itself with erroneous wind speed readings > (usually high readings as the static/EMI results in additional pulses on the > wire). The CAT5 STP will be used such that the shielded sheath, and striped > wire from each pair will all be earthed, leaving the solid colour wire from > each pair to replace the existing wires from the "telephone" cable. > > Other people have made this modification to their anemometers (same model as > mine) and it works flawlessly :) So please help out another geek: CAT5 STP > anyone?!? > > Cheers, > > James > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
