Re: UV stabilized POTS cable?

["Bob La Londe" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"SiliconSmell" <SiliconSmell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've been looking for some place that sells the same heavily insulated
> UV stabilized 3 pair (or more) POTS cable that SBC uses from the pole
> to the point of demarcation for an alarm install.  Has any one seen a
> place that sells the stuff in small quantities?  25 feet would be ideal
> (I need less).  I think the shortest length I've found thus far has
> been 500 feet.  I'd ask a lineman to sell me his scraps but I never see
> a truck around and the only telco lineman I know moved out of state a
> while ago.
>
> TIA!
> --
>

Most of the (real) telecom distributors will sell cut lengths of both aerial
and direct burial cable.  Both hold up to UV just fine with that heavy black
jacket.


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Bob La Londe
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