Re: Detecting where a coax cable goes to

["Kevin Ricks" <klricks@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"SJF" <SJF@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> <bruno.lerer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I have what I think is an unsual question which I couldn't find an
>> answer to: in my attic there is a coax splitter with several coax
>> outputs to coax cables which snake into the ceiling and disappear in
>> the boweles of the house. They are all of the same color and have no
>> identifying marks.  In the house itself, there are coax jacks in
>> several rooms.
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>> And now the question: is there a way to determine, without buying
>> expensive equipment, which cable in the attic leads to which room?
>> Since not all coax jacks in the rooms are connected to a tv, it's not
>> just a matter of disconnecting one cable after another from the
>> splitter and seeing which tv loses its signal.
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> Other posters have given you reasonable suggestions for identifying the
> cables.  But I'm wondering why it matters as long as each outlet is
> feeding the same signal from the same source -- the splitter.
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> A caveat --
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> In a setup such as yours, each unused outlet should have a 75 ohm
> terminator.  Radio Shack has them.  Unterminated cables can mess up the
> signal to the active devices on the network.
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> SJF

That goes for any unused connections on the spliter(s) as well.