[FARC] Phone punchdown wire???

[K3SKE Dan Szymanski]

I am guessing what you are describing is cross connect wire.
Is it one pair or multiple pairs?
Being nothing but 22AWG wire somewhat twisted together with no outer jacket I can't think of many potential uses.
Since you described it as phone (cross connect) not cat3 or cat5 (tighter twist) I will guess that then.
I rewired all my internal phone lines at home and put in a 110 style carrier block.
Then rehomed all existing phone lines and those I ran to it. A lot of line noise went away. 
Much better than what was existing when we moved in here back in the mid 1980's...

Now all I am dealing with are Verizon's ancient outside aerial cabling. Every couple of years they need to switch my line to a cleaner pair!
What a program...

Dan K3SKE


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Howard W3CQH 
  To: Frederick, Maryland ARC 
  Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 16:27
  Subject: Re: [FARC] Phone punchdown wire???


  If it is multi conductor jacketed wire to begin with - remove the outer jacket --
  If you remove lets say 50 to 100 feet from the roll at least 3 to 4 times, then put the far end in a clamp - make sure that all of the lengths are the same length - then cut it off from the roll and stick the loose ends into the chuck of a hand drill!  Turn on the drill and start to twist the wires - make sure that they don't crimp along the way - when you are finished - remove the wire from both ends - and it should be strong enough to make just about any kind of wire antenna.

  Happy Holidays - de Howard W3CQH
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: ARC 
    To: 'Frederick, Maryland ARC' 
    Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:06 AM
    Subject: [FARC] Phone punchdown wire???


     

    I have almost a whole roll of the telephone punch-down wire that I never used for a contract I worked quite a few years ago and it's been sitting around waiting for something to do with it. Is the gauge too small for any sort of transmitting capabilities? Was merely a thought since it's sitting there doing nothing but taking up space... I was thinking along the lines of for listening or QRP... Making an inverted v with a fishing pole or something along those lines... Nothing really taxing on the wire's ability to hold itself up. My other thought was that it would be pretty close to invisible except for the fishing rod or whatever mast used sitting in my back yard seemingly by itself. 

     

    Any thoughts?

     

    Anthony

    KB3RJH

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