Having dealt with this recently on a similar tower the final (at least so far…) 
solution was running Superior Essex BBDGE cable and using grounding kits to 
ground the copper jacket every 100’ to the tower.  

Mark

> On Apr 25, 2019, at 7:47 AM, Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Indeed. 
> 
> On Apr 25, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> If only the radios had SFPs...
>> 
>> 
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>> From: "Matt Hoppes" <[email protected] 
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>> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2019 6:52:32 PM
>> Subject: [AFMUG] CAT5. FM. And Rain
>> 
>> Looking to the wisdom of the AF group on this. 
>> 
>> I have some equipment on an FM tower.  It’s a 9kw station around 150ft. We 
>> are at 250ft with two sectors and a backhaul.  Netonix switch in shelter. 
>> 
>> Nothing else on the tower. 
>> 
>> Normally all is fine.   When it rains or is very moist out (heavy heavy fog) 
>> we start having major Ethernet negotiation issues.   The ports will go from 
>> 1Gig to 10F sometimes. Sometimes drop completely. 
>> 
>> I’ve got ferrite beads wrapped about 5 times top and bottom. 
>> 
>> Any further words of wisdom on what to try?  I suspect some odd grounding 
>> issue. But not sure how to track it down or isolate it. 
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