[1000mp] MP->computer all in one cable?

[FireBrick]

I agree.
I've done the lacing, plastic loom, systems.
Every time you want to change something requires a complete makeover.
That's why I was thinking of a cable with extra pairs.

Plus they would all be in the same shielded environment.
Dayton coming up. I should be able to find a cable that will fill the bill
there.
If I can't find it at Dayton, It never existed. :-))


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Smith" <jimsmith@shaw.ca>
To: <1000mp@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [1000mp] MP->computer all in one cable?


> Bill,
>
> I'm wrestling with the same problem.
>
> The problem with lacing cables is you have to undo and redo it all if
> you change even one cable.  You also have to know what you're doing or
> it all falls apart.
>
> Cable ties aren't as bad in this respect but it's hard to get a neat
> looking cable run unless you use a lot of them.
>
> I haven't used the spiral wrap stuff but believe you still have to
> untwist it all to get another cable in there.  I also suspect that it
> snakes around somewhat i.e. won't stay in a straight line.
>
> Electrical and industrial electronics wholesalers sell plastic wiring
> duct material that is ideal for this purpose (seeing as how that's what
> it is designed for).  Imagine a 6 ft long U-shaped channel with each
> side 1-1/2".  The sides are not solid but are composed of fingers with
> approx 3/8" gaps between them.  The channel is fastened to the wall with
> the bottom of the U vertical and the sides horizontal.  You just run the
> individual cables down the channel, entering and leaving through the
> appropriate slots closest to where the cable has to go.  What keeps the
> cables from looking ugly and falling out?  The 6 ft lid you snap on the
> whole thing when you're done.  You want to change something?  Pull the
> lid off, add and subtract cables as required, and put it back on again.
>  Dead easy, no fuss, no muss.
>
> Panduit is perhaps the best known manufacturer of this stuff but they
> are pricey.  Others make it for about half the price.  I think my chunk
> cost $12 Canadian.
>
> To see what it looks like check out
> http://www.panduiteeg.com/product_category/RO_wiring_duct.asp and
> selecte "Catalogs".
>
> It looks and works great.  No cursing because you forgot to install one
> of the needed cables.
>
> The other issue I'm working on is that I'm forever unplugging and
> plugging different things into the sound card, depending on whether I'm
> wanting to make voice keyer files or run RTTY.  If you read my recent
> ARRL DX SSB story on 3830 you will understand the problems that this can
> cause.  So, my next step is to figure out all my audio ins and outs
> (there is a surprisingly large number of them if you are going to make
> full use of all the connectors on the back of the MkV along with the 2nd
> Rx, the PK-232 and, in due course, the 2nd radio and 6 & 2m gear).  Once
> I've done that I'm going to run twisted pair shielded cables from
> everything to a patch panel.  I'll also have individual control of most
> of the levels and, no doubt, some kind of a mixer.  Once there,
> reconfiguration of any of the audio connections and adjusting levels
> will be very easy.
>
> Guess what all these cables are going to run through?
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> 73 de Jim Smith    VE7FO
>
>
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