[App_rpt-users] wire length...

[Jon Rorke]

I just extend the wiring from the radio to the fob/URI. I use 8 cond. 
18AWG shielded cable. My cables are ~20 feet long to get from a wall 
rack to the radio rack.

Jon

On 12/4/2011 11:04 PM, Scott Weis wrote:
> 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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