[HamWAN PSDR] CAT5 cable tester

[Kenny Richards]

Bart,

Agree with the proposal, I bring my personal device when ever doing
installs.

Question: does such a device exist which meets all your requirements?  Or
is that just a magical wish list?

Thanks
Kenny

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:37 PM Bart Kus <me at bartk.us> wrote:

> HamWAN is in the business of deploying lots of long CAT5 cables,
> terminated by amateurs, in remote locations.  We often have a hard time
> getting the terminations right.  In the worst cases, the problems are
> only discovered once the cables are installed on a tower, and need to be
> re-terminated up there.  A method of testing the cables before
> installing them would save us headaches and speed up deploys.
>
> Can someone volunteer to lead an effort to research the market and
> select an appropriate cable tester?  HamWAN would then purchase at least
> 2 of these, and keep them with folks who are doing site deploys.
>
> Here are some requirements I'd like the tester to meet:
>
> 0) The tester is a reliable quality device.
> 1) Ability to detect proper shield termination, since we use shielded
> CAT5 to keep RFI down.
> 2) Ability to report performance characteristics of the cable, beyond a
> simple pass/fail LED.
> 3) Ability to operate in rainy conditions.
> 4) Battery powered, preferably rechargeable.
> 5) UI friendly to color-blind people.  :)
>
> Additional requirement suggestions welcome.
>
> --Bart
>
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