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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.
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- RE: [smartBridges] Outdoor Cat5 UV Cable David Ross Buckley
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- Re: [smartBridges] Outdoor Cat5 UV Cable Sevak Avakians
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- Re: [smartBridges] Outdoor Cat5 UV Cable Brian Winter
- Re: [smartBridges] Outdoor Cat5 UV Cable John Hokenson
- Re: [smartBridges] Outdoor Cat5 UV Cab... Rick Kosick
- Re: [smartBridges] Outdoor Cat5 U... Don Castella
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- Re: [smartBridges] hardwa... Blazen Wireless
- Re: [smartBridges] hardwa... John Hokenson
- Re: [smartBridges] hardwa... Don Castella
- Re: [smartBridges] hardwa... Derek Breiland
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