I have had experience replacing poor installation of video distribution cables. Indoor cables are not UV stabilised and outer sheath tends to go brittle in sunlight, crack and fall away after 2 or 3 seasons.  With large RF cables, like indoor equiv of LMR400 that you might use to connect your sB radio to antenna, inners go soft through heat and water ingress over time and sag (even vasoline doesn't help with that !).  RF losses increase greatly as impedance changes when conductor spacing varies.  Cat 5 will behave similarly.
 
Replacing outdoor cables is always a pain - nice to get it right first time and leave it.
 
Not so convinced about the general use of shielded, but necessary in electrically noisy environments (cars, electric motors, high RF fields etc).  UTP copes with most normal noise - especially when you consider the sB ethernet side is running 10Mb/s (rather than 100Mb/s) to reduce losses and so improve s/n ratio.
 
bw
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Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Outdoor Cat5 UV Cable

DOH!

How much does it really matter in using outdoor CAT5 cable vs indoor CAT5?  Anyone getting by using indoor for outside?  How about the shielding?  Anyone happy without shielding?  Anyone like the shielding better?  Why?


On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:11, Scott wrote:
Words to live by.


>  It's tough to get through the compression fitting but
> with a little vasoline it can be done.
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