WHAT IS THE PHEONIX CONNECTOR????

This makes no sense to me. If the purpose of having the RFX-250 is to move the receiving end of the RF signals away from interference then why wouldn't URC provide cables that were shielded to prevent interfrerence from poluting the cables in the first place?

The RFX-250 is worthless if the cables that connect it to the base station are prone to the same interference that your trying to get away from. I've experienced this same problem with my MX-350. I move the RFX-250 but I still get interference UNTIL I move the cable that is teathered to the MX-350 away from the offending interference.

Why doesn't URC provide shielded cableing with their base stations to begin with? Obviously they are aware of the fact that the supplied cables will likely introduce the same interference that their product is suppose to allow you to move away from.

I had to use the extra long cable with the 3.5mm connector on one end and the tinned ends on the other just to get enough cable length to allow me to move the cable out of reach of any RF interference.

It seems to defeat the whole purpose of having the RFX-250 all togeather without having shielded cableing as a part of the package. I guess I need to make my own cable using CAT 5/6 cable to resolve the issue.

The Phoenix connector referrs to the RF connector with the 3 screw terminals on it which you will find on the MRF-300 MRF-350 and MSC-400 as well as the RFX-250 antenna.

Mitch57:

What is really being addressed in this thread is using one or more antennas for a whole house solution and using cat5/6 to run antennas long distances.

We are not necessarily talking about using cat5/6 in place of the cable that comes with the MRF for use in a cabinet, but if you are having trouble over a short run like that you may want to try shielded wire as Jon says above. If it helps please post it here so we can all learn from your experience. If we find shielded wire is better I'm sure URC would listen to us and consider/test our findings.

Just rewired the job today (yes on Sunday) and this worked perfectly.

Used all stripes for ground, Solid blue and solid green for 5v, and Solid Orange and solid brown for Data.

FLAWLESS!

I think it has a lot to do with redundancy and isolating the ground, but regardless it colved the problem.

NO press and pray in this house!

CAn I do this with RFX 150?

Ground = All the stripes,
Data = I would solder 2 conductors
5V = solder the 2 remaining conductor?

will it work with 3.5 mm connector?

You should do the same thing with an RFX-150 antenna when you extend it on Cat-5. What happens is the striped conductors, since they are twisted around the solid conductors, act as a shield from interference. The way they were intended for data transfer.

When using multiple RFX-150s, make sure that they are at least 50' apart or else their may be destructive interference between them.

Do not use an RFX-150 and an RFX-250 on the same MRF. Otherwise you will lose the benefits of the narrow band antenna. This seems like common sense, but you'd be surprised how many times I get asked this.

When using an MX-900/950/3000 or TX-1000, use the RFX-250. Better interference rejection, plus about double the range of an RFX-150.