I use black as well.  It has worked for me.  Belden branded and a spooled.

On 9/12/09, Robert West <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yep.  I'll take a boring flat black shielded cable over a pretty indoor
> patch cable anytime for an outdoor install.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Josh Luthman
> Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 12:51 PM
> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Vendors eating their dogfood (was Re: Which WiMAX Are
> You?)
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> As opposed to pretty rainbow colors?
>
> On 9/12/09, Robert West <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Nice pretty and shiny PVC makes for a better picture in a variety of
> colors!
>> All the outdoor shielded cable we've ever purchased is a boring flat
> black.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>> Behalf Of Josh Luthman
>> Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 12:12 PM
>> To: WISPA General List
>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Vendors eating their dogfood (was Re: Which WiMAX Are
>> You?)
>>
>> Wait why would patch cables look better then shielded cable and
>> connectors..?
>>
>> On 9/12/09, Robert West <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Those marketing photos sure look pretty though.  They might also explain
>> why
>>> I keep seeing installs done just like the pictures.  I had a bit of an
>>> argument a few weeks ago on the UBNT forums with some folks defending
>> using
>>> indoor patch cable outside and not wrapping connectors.  It started with
>>> someone complaining to UBNT that the patch cable boots wouldn't fit
> inside
>>> the bullet caps.  (The answer from UBNT was that it was a tradeoff in the
>>> design...???)  Silly me, I said they were supposed to be used with
> outdoor
>>> shielded cable, not patch with the boots.  You wouldn't believe how many
>>> negative comments came from that.  Pictures of nice pretty blue PVC patch
>>> cables and bright shiny connectors.............  And now there is an army
>> of
>>> installers following these lies.
>>>
>>> We use outdoor, flooded cable with the static drain wire to an outdoor
>>> shielded connector.  All connections wrapped.   It's not as pretty but I
>>> don't work for Apple so I just care about it being functional and trouble
>>> free.  I would be more attracted to a photo of equipment with a correct
>>> install.  They are marketing to professionals, after all, and when I see
>> one
>>> of these photos, I'm like you and are too busy being distracted by the
>>> things that are wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:42 AM, jp wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sidepoint.... Some of the wireless equipment vendors would likely
>>>> create
>>>> a superior product faster if they ran a modest sustainable WISP just
>>>> big
>>>> enough for real world product testing. Too often we see marketing
>>>> photos
>>>> of gear installed outdoors with shiny bare N connectors, indoor
>>>> unshielded cat5 on the pole, etc...
>>>
>>>
>>>
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