[App_rpt-users] wire length...

[Scott Weis]

The spec for USB is 16 feet max.  I have used a USB to cat 5 extender and
extended over 100 feet and the URI worked fine.

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[mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces at ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Bryan D. Boyle
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 9:24 PM
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Subject: [App_rpt-users] wire length...

wondering...there's a legitimate length restriction on USB cables...but,
from the dongle to the radio...the audio and control signals...analog...

Reason for asking...have my asterisk computer in the spare basement room
here...right next to the radios.  All the nice dongles blinking in
unison..but...thinking (I know...dangerous) it would be nicer to actually
have the computer in the same room as the rest of the shack, and the radios
out in the other room so the fans on the power supply don't intrude, etc.
And be able to sit at my work area, rather than standing in front of the
rack...when I'm hacking at the configuration files, or...???

so...thoughts about how long the cables from the dongle to the radio itself
could be before running into trouble?

Not thinking of using JK (the old Bell 2-pair station wire, believe it or
not, have a couple boxes left from the 80s...:)) or UTP...but, have a nice
spool of belden 8451 (2 stranded conductor, shielded) that's used almost as
a given in most commercial radio stations etc and we never had a problem
with l-r phase shift or degradation (and this was running audio signals in a
transmitter room with 25KW boxes and STLs, and the like floating around...).
*shouldn't be a problem, right?*

Just thinking out loud...I know, try it and see.

BB

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