Some GMRS and amateur mobile radios (perhaps even some commercial rigs) have the ability to remotely locate the radio control head. It seems that the manufacturers may supply standard cables for doing this that are in the range of perhaps 10-20 feet. Probably sufficient for the typical automotive installation.
I am curious who of you has experimented with how long you can make and use these cables before you started to achieve undesirable results and what radio you experimented with.
This may be more of an idle curiosity than anything, but it does have a practical application.
Consider an application where there may be an ideal location to mount an antenna at one’s home, but the ideal location for the radio is 150 cable-feet away from that. That would be a lot of expense for quality low-loss feed-line. Now lets say that the radio electronics could actually be mounted say 50’ from the antenna and that the control head, mic and speakers were remotely mounted 100’ away from that and then interconnected with inexpensive Category 5 grade network cable.
While you can be certain that I will experiment with this at some point, I thought I would like to tap this group for existing first-hand experiences.
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Some GMRS and amateur mobile radios (perhaps even some commercial rigs) have the ability to remotely locate the radio control head. It seems that the manufacturers may supply standard cables for doing this that are in the range of perhaps 10-20 feet. Probably sufficient for the typical automotive installation.
I am curious who of you has experimented with how long you can make and use these cables before you started to achieve undesirable results and what radio you experimented with.
This may be more of an idle curiosity than anything, but it does have a practical application.
Consider an application where there may be an ideal location to mount an antenna at one’s home, but the ideal location for the radio is 150 cable-feet away from that. That would be a lot of expense for quality low-loss feed-line. Now lets say that the radio electronics could actually be mounted say 50’ from the antenna and that the control head, mic and speakers were remotely mounted 100’ away from that and then interconnected with inexpensive Category 5 grade network cable.
While you can be certain that I will experiment with this at some point, I thought I would like to tap this group for existing first-hand experiences.
Regards to all.
Michael
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