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Posted by Mark Lloyd on June 27, 2007, 2:30 pm
>Kitep wrote:
>
>> Ok, I hope I can explain this clearly. The cable tv company has a cable
>> coming to my house and going under my porch. There it hits a cable splitter
>> with 2 lines going to 2 different rooms. The cable coming in is a single
>> "strand". One of the room lines is also a single "strand". The other is a
>> double "strand", but only 1 strand is connected to the splitter. I imagine
>> this is leftover from when cable boxes had A/B knobs. In the room, both
>> strands come out of the wall, but only 1 has a proper connector on it, the
>> other strand is just cut.
>>
>> Will the 1 "strand" work like a single cable, or will it need to be
>> replaced?
>>
>>
>Hi,
>What do you mean by strand? Coax has outer shield and center conductor
>which could be solid single wire or multi-strand wire(think skin effect).
According to the original post, "strand" isn't referring to stranded
wire (all the TV RF coax I've seen has had solid wire) but dual coax
(2 coax cables with the outer jackets connected, like zip cord).
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Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"Never underestimate the power of stupid
people in large groups"
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