[John Candle]

In the old days , SMATV and MATV systems were wired with RG-59 coax and if it's really old the wiring was RG-59 coax with the foil shied that was not bonded to the foam that surrounds the center wire of the coax. Also these old SMATV , MATV systems used directional couplers , the directional couplers look like splitters but are not splitters. As time goes along , those that do not know what they are doing replace the directional couplers with splitters and also mess up the wiring because they do not know what they are doing. Then some one else jumps in and tries to get reception and it goes down hill from there.