It should work just fine. A Cat cable has four twisted pairs that are meant to be really nice for fast ethernet signals. It also tends to be a bit expensive because of the specifications. The flat cable that is supplied with the W2 does not use twisted pair and is meant for short jumpers in low-speed ethernet. The W2 uses the eight wires for individual signals, unlike ethernet. But, at the low analog signaling it uses, there really is no reason not to use a short ethernet patch cable. Just don’t use a long one, or the signal degradation will adversely affect the power measurements. I would try to stay to maybe one or two meters in length.
73, Jack, W6FB > On May 15, 2025, at 8:10 PM, William Liporace <w...@wc2l.com> wrote: > > I know that Elecraft uses a flat ribbon cable with the W-2. Can you use CAT5 > or CAT6 cables? > Is there a reason to use or not to use the CAT cables?? > > TNX Will WC2L > > -- > William Liporace WC2L > https://www.wc2l.com orhttps://dxc.wc2l.com > AR-Cluster Node telnet dxc.wc2l.com 7373 or 144.93 MHz > w...@wc2l.com > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to jackbrin...@me.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
