Lacrosse WS-2300 weather station wiring

["kw1816" <kw1816@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I bought one of these weather stations some time ago and finally got
round to having a play with it yesterday. It comes with a base
station and outside temperature, Rainfall and wind sensors which are
either wired or wireless.

I've had it running fine when connected with the supplied cables
which are modem style 4 core RJ11 - RJ11. Great I thought - I'll
just plug one end into the patch panel and the sensors into a handy
cat 5 socket in the garage.  The plan was to just use normal RJ45
link adaptors and plug the RJ11's into one side. My reasoning was
that as long as I did the same each end then electrically it would
be fine. The sensors are going to be too far away for the wireless
RF signal to be reliable.

As you might have guessed it didn't work :-(    I can get it to work
with a short CAT 5 patch lead using the same adaptors but not
accross the structured wiring. I'm wondering if the CAT 5 twists are
having an effect on the signal. Any ideas ??

Thanks
Kevin W.