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

[Tom Horton]

OR
  You could just shove the desk up next to thewall
and forget about it, like a lot of us probably do.
73, Tom K5IID

There is a 8 conductor shielded cable on the market, have used
some so there is probably a 10 conductor.
73






At 06:13 04/03/02 -0600, FireBrick wrote:
>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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