Re: FM aerial over Cat5?

["Clive Chapman" <clivechapman@xxxxxxx>]

You can connect RF to CAT but you need a BALUN (BALance/UNbalance) to do
it.  A BALUN apart from balancing and unbalancing the signal matches
the impedance's.

I've never used these so I don't how well they work.  (if you download
the PDF's you'll see the distance you can send it depends on the channel or
RF frequency)

Energy Transformation Systems Inc.
The Media Conversion Company
43353 Osgood Road, Unit B, Fremont, CA 94539
phone 510-656-2012   fax 510-656-2026

Have a look at this link

http://www.etslan.com/Pages/p_multi.html

It's the PV880 and PV884  you'll see they have all sorts of BALUNS
there.

I don't think they are represented in the UK but they are in various other
European companies.

Hope it helps

Clive




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James,Daniel" <Daniel.James@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:04 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] FM aerial over Cat5?


> Paul,
> 
> Cat5 does not have the correct properties for use as a
"Proper" aerial cable
> (i.e. its not a screened low loss cable), however as an aerial is
nothing
> more than a piece of metal (tuned to a particlar frequency band) you
may
> find that Cat 5 works fine - in fact the cat5 will become an aerial in
its
> own right. This is the only drawback, as it could cause you
interference. 
> 
> I once used a long piece of copper cable strung across the front of
the
> house, for a crystal radio, you could also connect it to the central
heating
> pipes, that works well too :-)
> 
> Give it a go, and see what happens, it will not give you the same
results as
> coax, but If you live in an area with reasonable reception, you'll
probably
> find it an improvement on no aerial. 
> 
> I have found that generally any cable can give an improvement to a
radios
> reception!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 December 2002 09:02
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] FM aerial over Cat5?
> 
> 
> Anyone tried linking to an FM aerial via Cat5? Would it introduce
too
> much noise/interference?
> 
>  
> 
> I thought I'd ask before trying!
> 
>  
> 
> Paul.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
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