[mythtv-users] splitting analog coax

[Daryl McDonald]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 08:07:45 PM Stephen Villano wrote:
> > I've always used hex compression connectors, they last quite a long
> > time before oxidation causes problems. I never retooled for the newer
> > compression type, never made sense for something I'd use every 5 - 10
> > years.
>
> Now by "compression" you mean at the cable-in end of the connector right?
> Because every non-10-Base2 coax connector I've ever used had a threaded cap
> for the terminal end. I vaguely remember making a coax cable long ago by
> hand and that had a cable-in end that used a screw-on compression fitting
> and not a bit on metal crimped over the end of the cable. I just stopped in
> at a Home Depot to look at cables and splitters and all their cables look
> like they'd be screwed-on connectors, as are the cables I got from my ISP.
>
> How can one tell?
>
> Or... are you talking about new A/V gear that has connectors like the bad
> old 10Base-2 days? I think they were called "barrel" connectors, with a
> push-and-turn connection. Nice connection strategy, darkened by painful
> memories of dealing with 10Base-2.
>
> All the terminal posts on all my gear are threaded though: wall post,
> cablemodem, and PVR-500s.
>
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The really cheap ones are the ones where the connector screws onto the
coax... and then screws onto the device, if your buying a patch cord, given
length, with connectors on each end already your good.
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