[mythtv-users] OTA interference with cable causing ghosting

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 14:48:44 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Allen Edwards
<allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com> wrote:
> Use RG-6Q cable and professional connectors attached with a high
> quality crimp tool.
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> Connectors: https://www.tselectronic.com/thomandbetts/sns.html
> crimp tool like this:
> https://www.tselectronic.com/paladin/901024.html
> Cable like this:
> https://www.tselectronic.com/belden/1189.html
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> And, if you get this stuff, you can use these cables for your audio
> and video interconnects with this:
> https://www.tselectronic.com/gc/video/video_adaptor.html
>
> Some people prefer this wire:
> https://www.tselectronic.com/belden/7916a.html
> or similar with solid coper center conductor but I have used the coper
> coasted steel stuff without issue.
>
> I had the same issue with off the air interfering with cable until I
> got this kind of cable.
>
> Cheers,
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> Allen
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> Allen
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> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Russ Dill <russ.dill at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I live very close to a number of over the air transmitters. I can pick
>> up several analog channels quite clearly without any antenna. My
>> problem is that I receive my analog TV via cable. For the
>> corresponding channels, I get really bad ghosting via my bt 848 card
>> (The tuner on my TV is actually worse).
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to eliminate or reduce the interference?
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Paladin does make really great crimping tools.  Although it was more
money, I sprung for the Paladin 1300 crimper...one of those really
nice ratcheted ones.  They have a die for the 1300 (their part number
2687) that's a combination die for RG6, RG6 Quad, _and_ RJ45 Ethernet
connectors...everything I needed to run Ethernet to my TV and RG6 Quad
to my backend machine....really nice.

Tom


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