I had the idea to, rather than a horizontal raceway around the entire room, install a handful of RJ21X Amphenol “harmonicas” on 25 pair cable dropped vertically from the attic. VCF and its exhibitors are used to providing temporary electrical cabling to centrally located outlets, the same should be doable to get hooked up to these for telephony during the shows. Martin, let me know what you think. -August Sent from my iPhone
On May 19, 2025, at 5:13 PM, Martin A. Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 5/19/2025 8:16 AM, Martin A. Flynn via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 5/19/2025 7:39 AM, David Waybright via vcf-midatlantic wrote: FYI to those asking about what cable to run.
If permanent I would suggest CAT6a or 7 which would allow for multi uses of the runs! 10mb, 100mb, 1gb, or 10gb as well as regular POTS Analog Tip-Ring and even some PBX technologies like Nortel MICS.
If temporary then run whatever you have the most of laying around!
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David,
So far any horizontal cabling installed by the "usual suspects" at Camp Evans has been CAT6, using methods in compliance with the BICSI TDMM [1], with the exception of mechanical fiber couplers.
Due to the steam lines / radiators that were abandoned in place, and the routing of conduit used for a later electrical upgrade, permanent installation of raceway or conduit supporting the proposed horizontal cabling in a code-complaint fashion would be problematic (read customer-speak for very expensive)
With 47 weeks until VCF East 2026, and the understanding that 9032A is blocked out for a significant portion of November and all of December for the Holiday Train Show, the group tackling would need to define the needs and ASAP.
Best information currently available: 9032A is blocked out between 11/01/2025 and 02/01/2025 (may change)
Any cabling would need to be deployed before or after this window
Cheers!
Martin Flynn