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RF Coax Jumpers
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Post 16 made on Thursday March 5, 2020 at 06:14
Don Heany
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On March 4, 2020 at 19:40, thecapnredfish said...
The Planet waves are looked down on from the cable industry because of ingress and egress from poor shielding at the connector. My assumption because of screw design. Not a 360 degree compression. Same as twist on and poor electricians using pliers and leaving a 1/2 in of braid hanging out. Ingress follows the cable and enters the drop system wherever the shielding is poor. Causing HSD issues and video issues if severe enough. Egress is another story. System must be closed to use the frequencies cable systems use. Simple because leakage causes interference with other users of same frequencies. And the FCC does fly overs detecting and mapping these leaks as does the cable companies. Ever had a customer trapped for noise? Really want to screw up HSD for a node, back feed Directv/AT&T onto the house coax and drop system still connected to a tap.

Thanks for the heads up! I’ve believed the head of the center conductor piercing set screw was somehow isolated from the piercing point in the connector.
Post 17 made on Thursday March 5, 2020 at 06:19
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On March 5, 2020 at 00:44, Ernie Gilman said...
What does that mean? It's a simple fact that satellite signals use such high frequencies that the loss characteristics of RG-59 make the wire unsuitable for satellite distribution. Hell, I dropped RG-59 for plain old TV antenna systems in 1985, once we started to pay attention to UHF channels.

That while cable can limp along on 59, satellite hasn’t been able to for the past 20+yrs. And yes, per frequency issue.
You're saying "all" so I'll assume you're okay with generalization.
Cable companies do not want installers who think. They want installers who will always do a perfect installation. For instance, I knew a cable installer who would never install an F-81. That's a good idea, but his reason was that they always attenuate a signal so much that the signal is ruined. He was taught a lie, but that lie guaranteed that he'd never do a bad installation.

I’m fine with barrels, so long as they’re 3GHz swept or better. And I’ve always appreciated picky cable guys too. Have even got a couple jobs from them over the years.
That's totally appropriate because RG-59 can pass signals of the required frequencies. See, we can't use RG-59 for satellite... for more than a few feet. And nobody wants to limit satellite signal distribution to a few feet.

Case use is jumpers, not infrastructure. Agreed nonetheless.
Post 18 made on Thursday March 5, 2020 at 10:50
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On March 3, 2020 at 15:16, 3PedalMINI said...

Or use a grommet, then keep the wire long, put end on and wire directly to the TV.

This, Why do you need to have a termination point behind a TV if you don't have to? You are already spending the time to terminate the cable onto a jack and screw that jack to the wall, remove a step by needing to add the 3' jumper.
You can't fix stupid
Post 19 made on Thursday March 5, 2020 at 15:58
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OP | Post 20 made on Monday March 9, 2020 at 15:07
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i would do this in a heartbeat, but in this commercial setting we are not the infrastructure contractor, and they get upset if we start taking their stuff into our hands. Ive also had some inspectors bust chops about openings in walls
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