[HamWAN PSDR] Need Power High on Tower

[Nigel Vander Houwen]

Ken,

First thought is I’d look at doing something like a small enclosure at the level of your sectors with something like the hEX PoE (https://mikrotik.com/product/RB960PGS <https://mikrotik.com/product/RB960PGS>) in there. Run fiber and power up the tower to the enclosure, then have short runs of cat-5/6 from the enclosure out to the sectors.

Fiber also provides your isolation on the DC side, so then all you have to worry about protecting is the power.

Nigel

> On Oct 10, 2019, at 18:12, Kenneth Tolliver <ktolliver at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We hope to put our HamWAN Sectors up at about the 500 foot level on a commercial tower. 
> CAT-6 is limited to 330 feet; then it needs to connect to an active component to then break out a line(with PoE) for each Sector Device(Up to an additional 330 feet). 
> 
> Have any of you put your equipment higher than 330 feet on a tower?
> How did you get the power up to the Midway device to power the second set of 330 foot PoE lines?
> 
> Ideas???
> 
> 73
> 
> Ken Tolliver
> K7ICY
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