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Bought cool new digital charger....$89? WalMart?!!
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"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message ... On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 03:47:00 -0800, "Ed Price" wrote: I would much prefer fiberoptic in a commercial or military vessel. It's much more secure and robust in the presence of a hostile RF environment. And in a commercial vessel, it shouldn't be a hardship to route sufficient fiberoptic cabling. Fiber sounds great until you have to install it. Fiber requires amazingly expensive equipment to splice and connector to it and specialized training to do it right, things pleasure boaters will simply not pay for. It's not an option when a large corporation or the government bureaucrats aren't paying the bills. I'm not an expert in fibre in any way, but have been around television technicians when they are working with it. Ten or more years ago when I first saw it being installed they were using $10,000.00/$20,000.00 cutting/polishing/splicing/testing gear on terminations. More recently I've seen them using "cam terminations"?? which the technician used to install connectors onto bare, freshly cut fibre using simple hand tools. They didn't even seem to test the terminations except to confirm the head end was receiving a good signal at the other end many miles away. So it seems to me fibre is becoming much more user friendly. Perhaps we will see it in pleasure boater marine use sooner than you think as prices come down due to increased use in commercial computer network wiring. I can certainly see advantages with no RF interferance or emmissions and no corrosion of connections, etc. snipped bit was here Larry W4CSC No, no, Scotty! I said, "Beam me a wrench.", not a WENCH! Kirk Out..... |
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