Home Cable Asylum

Interconnects, speaker wire, power cords. Ask the Cable Guys.

With my OLDdddd AVO multi-meter how do I check it?

Thanks John, I just unplugged it and the problems didn't resolve with it out. The back is a sealed white plastic casting.

I asked for such plugs at a DIY bits shop, I did mean for it to maintain the load the antenna system saw, as I'd been told that was important. This was way back so memory of my specific request then is not good.

IF it's a shorting plug, Wouldn't the problem have existed whenever I plugged it in?

Both single outlets are in the lounge/dining room (L-shaped) where the main audio only system is, the 2nd and was going to be rarely used to run a TV for special simulcasts on TV AND FM stereo. Hence the plug.

I AM going to check all the connections up on the mast first, before I pay for half a drum of new cable. And before I crawl around the tight crawl-space under the house. Spiders, builder's waste etc. * more below.

Should I put a load across the unused input in the FUBA combiner on the mast, too? I think they said no.

If you remember my post about TVI from my old rebuilt 'tunah' see the click URL below, you might be amused by the advice of a highly objectivist electronics mag here.

After receiving my detailed post, they suggested that my best solution was to run separate coax from the FM antenna down and around the house to separate outlets.?!?!

Apart from the sheer pleasure of clambering around under the house, they had ignored the likely problem of re-radiation to the TV antennas on the mast. I wrote back pointing that out, and that I'd been quite detailed about the array and the one mast, even about the crawl space being a great place to work. And, being objectivists they of course published my letter? Nope.

[One winter I might just get into my anti-fibre protective suit and put a big long-sided VHF (Band 1.5 long) rhombic up under the tiled roof, and put the band IV UHF TV antenna in there too. End of wet-coax and just two into to one for the combiner! One less antenna and less connection losses. Would require four longish safety planks though - as there's R6.0 worth of fibreglass up there, and it's rather hard to distingush ceiling boards from roof beams! Crunch, Tear, ..... Thudddd]

TIA, too.
























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Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger



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