<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Bart,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm willing to kick in some extra $$ to help pay for a cable qual tester.<br></div><div><br></div><div>John <br></div><div>kx7jm@jmit.com</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" style="" class="zmail_extra"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Fri, 29 May 2020 12:37:49 -0700 <b>Bart Kus <me@bartk.us></b> wrote ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div>HamWAN is in the business of deploying lots of long CAT5 cables, <br>terminated by amateurs, in remote locations. We often have a hard time <br>getting the terminations right. In the worst cases, the problems are <br>only discovered once the cables are installed on a tower, and need to be <br>re-terminated up there. A method of testing the cables before <br>installing them would save us headaches and speed up deploys.<br><br>Can someone volunteer to lead an effort to research the market and <br>select an appropriate cable tester? HamWAN would then purchase at least <br>2 of these, and keep them with folks who are doing site deploys.<br><br>Here are some requirements I'd like the tester to meet:<br><br>0) The tester is a reliable quality device.<br>1) Ability to detect proper shield termination, since we use shielded <br>CAT5 to keep RFI down.<br>2) Ability to report performance characteristics of the cable, beyond a <br>simple pass/fail LED.<br>3) Ability to operate in rainy conditions.<br>4) Battery powered, preferably rechargeable.<br>5) UI friendly to color-blind people. :)<br><br>Additional requirement suggestions welcome.<br><br>--Bart<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PSDR mailing list<br><a target="_blank" href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br><a target="_blank" href="http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr</a><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>