Re: Best brand coax and F connector for HD cable?

[Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons@xxxxxxx>]

In article <Ve%Lf.2193$XE6.365@trnddc07>,
 Wes Newell <w.newell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:39:52 +0000, Rogue Petunia wrote:
>
> > When a person has interior wiring, whether done by homeowner or even by a
> > licensed contractor, the cable company will say "the problem is your
> > internal wiring and cable company is not responsible. Goodbye."  They have
> > done this to me before, even though the internal wiring was in place for a
> > year and no problems, they insisted it was the internal wiring.
>
> It's real easy to test coax. Short one end to the shield and test with an
> ohm meter at the other end.

That only tests the DC characteristic of the coax.

Signal degradation across coax can occur when that simple test says
things are fine.  To really test it you need to do more....