[MVMA] Bill fixed the Xenia to MVHS node.

[William Curtice]

I believe the culprit on this one was water... which appears to have
entered the connector from inside the Cat6 cable.  Connection that failed
was located in a very dry utility box at base of tower.  It attached cable
from the node to the PoE injector.

Cable was not goo-flooded nor rated for direct burry; it was our standard,
blue, shielded Cat6, with a plastic separater (cross-section cross) running
through the center of the cable, and a cellophane wrap inside the foil
shield.

I found the wires inside the cellophane to be moist.  Cable appears to have
acted as a conduit for moisture, ducting water to the connector.  We've
seen this before with Ubiquiti's Tough Cable.

Photos of the RJ45 plug and the PoE socket are attached.   The photo
doesn't, show it well, but I can see the blue oxidized copper in the PoE
socket.

Bill  WA8APB
937-287-0871

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 9:36 PM Chuck Gelm NC8Q <nc8q-aredn at gelm.net> wrote:

> The 'triangle' is  back.
>
> Thank you, Bill, for fixing the Xenia end of the Xenia<>MVHS link.
>
> Check out the local dynamic map generator.
>
> 73, Chuck
>
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