[FARC] Phone punchdown wire???

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Dan,

 

Yes, it's the cross connect wire. Single pair, solid conductor. I do like
the idea of twisting it together with more strands to make a heavier cable
and twist the ends as Howard suggested so I will have to see what I get out
of it...not like I'm losing anything monetarily from it and heck, if it
doesn't work, the copper is still worth something... ;p I'll post my
results....

 

Anthony 

KB3RJH

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From: farc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:farc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of K3SKE Dan Szymanski
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 1:17 PM
To: Frederick, Maryland ARC
Subject: Re: [FARC] Phone punchdown wire???

 

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 <mailto:hsgorden at comcast.net>  

To: Frederick, <mailto:farc at mailman.qth.net>  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 <mailto:comulada at verizon.net>  

To: 'Frederick, <mailto:farc at mailman.qth.net>  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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