Cat 5 would make excellent wire for the RS-232 signals. Especially if one wire of each twisted pair is grounded and the other used for a signal.

Jim Hannon


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Larry Cochrane" 
Reply-To: psn-l@..............
Date:  Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:33:06 -0700


>
>You can't extend the antenna with cat 5, you need to use a good quality low
>loss 50 ohm coax wire between the antenna and the receive. Cat 5 may work
>without some sort of converter for the RS-232 input/outputs. Give it a try
>and let us know how it works out.
>
>-Larry Cochrane
>Redwood City, PSN
>
>
>


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