[time-nuts] FASTRAX GPS

[Hal Murray]

albertson.chris at gmail.com said:
> I tried using a long serial cable.  Just because I had some 100 feet of
> cat-5 wire already installed.  It did not work reliably I was using a MAX232
> chip as a driver.

Were you using it as 8 separate wires or 4 pairs?

I'd expect RS-232 to work over 100 ft of Cat-5 if you used half of each pair 
as a ground.  (That's at 9600 baud.)

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