Showing posts with label cable length. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cable length. Show all posts

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Those numbers on cable...

On a recent troubleshooting event, we found that the cables from the public safety and another service provider's antennas were crossed. This created some interesting problems. 


Once we suspected the crossed cable (thanks to Kevin Wysocki), tracing the cables from the roof-top antennas to the head-end equipment became the main challenge - in this particular case, cables from roof-top antennas to lightning protector were all LMR 400, and then from the lightning protector to the equipment were all 1/2" RFS cable. The fact that most of these cables are hidden above the ceiling tiles didn't help either. This is when the numbers printed on the cable comes handy.