From: "Leon D. Zetekoff" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTP id 1694689 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:31:02 -0500 Received-SPF: none (secmgr-ny.randr: 64.111.148.240 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of backwoodswireless.net) client-ip=64.111.148.240; envelope-from=wa4zlw@backwoodswireless.net; helo=shana.; Received: from bngr-64-111-148-240-pppoe.dsl.bngr.epix.net ([64.111.148.240] helo=shana.) by secmgr-ny.randr with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOCGG-000244-BI for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:30:30 -0500 Received: from Unknown ([10.161.51.110]) by shana. id 12229 ; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:30:23 -0500 Message-ID: <12229.08.30.23.10.02.2008@shana.> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:30:02 -0500 Reply-To: wa4zlw@arrl.net Organization: BackWoods Wireless User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] VOT (very off-topic) References: <114376.07.10.08.10.02.2008@shana.> In-Reply-To: <114376.07.10.08.10.02.2008@shana.> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090005050800010707030403" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090005050800010707030403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Mark...I wouldn't use coax for telco. The impedance is one issue. Phone wire is usually a twisted pair. I'd pickup one of the multiple wireless phone gizmos. I rent here and I use cordless phones where there is no premise wiring. The new DECT cordless phones are on a different frequency than 900/2.4/5.8 so there shouldn't be any interference, etc. Leon * Mark Henigan wrote, On 2/10/2008 6:04 AM: > Jeffrey Race wrote: >> It'll work fine. At audio frequencies the impedance characteristics >> of the coax are unimportant over this short distance. Just make >> sure the plastic sheath is in good condition so there is no >> leakage to ground as this would unbalance the two wires (called >> 'tip' and 'ring') to ground which balance is very important. If you >> have a digital multimeter measure this resistance of both sheath and >> center conductor to your house ground. If over >> ten megohms (the test standard) you will be fine. If less, you >> might get some hum. > > > Hello Jeffrey: > > I'll check it. I have a very sensitive > multimeter; so, I'll check. I expect to find > a very high value since the coax was installed > within the past few years. Currently it is > attached to a splitter installed by the cable > company. I'll probably remove the splitter > and insert a female to female feedthrough > adapter to provide the best possible signal > quality to our television. Then I'll make > simple adapters, one with straight solid wire > to a coax female jack, another with a coax > male plug to a female modular telephone jack. > Nothing even remotely sophisticated. But, it > should do the job. > > Thanks for the info! > > - Mark > > Mark Henigan -- *Leon Zetekoff* Proprietor *Work:* 484-335-9920 *Mobile:* 610-223-8642 *Fax:* 484-335-9921 *Email:* wa4zlw@arrl.net *http://www.linkedin.com/in/leonzetekoff* *BackWoods Wireless* 505 B Main Street Blandon, PA 19510 "Bringing Broadband Technology to Rural Areas" See who we know in common Want a signature like this? --------------090005050800010707030403 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="wa4zlw.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="wa4zlw.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Leon Zetekoff n:Zetekoff;Leon org:BackWoods Wireless adr;dom:;;505 B Main Street;Blandon;PA;19510 email;internet:wa4zlw@arrl.net title:Owner tel;work:484-335-9920 tel;fax:484-335-9921 tel;home:610-916-0230 tel;cell:610-223-8642 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.backwoodswireless.net version:2.1 end:vcard --------------090005050800010707030403--