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Originally Posted by Jnktwnman
The installers had installed all of these splitters connected together. What I'll call #1 splitter is down from the antenna on the outside of the house at the 2nd floor to a 2nd floor converter box & TV. #2 splitter is in the basement connected to a digital converter box & TV. #3 splitter is on the 1st floor on the wire split that runs along the basement ceiling up to my 1st floor converter box & TV.
Since I am testing the "reflection" issue, I was going to get on the ladder and disconnect the #1 split off, and then disconnect the #2 split off, thereby testing the longest run of wire to the #3 connection and TV.
However for my test, can I simply disconnect any 2 of the splits at the converter/TV no matter where they are - this leaves what I (as a lay person) might call "non-terminated" antenna wire out there. This saves me from going up on the ladder for a test.
I have actually done this (that is, disconnected the wire from converter/TV#1 and from converter/TV#2 and it seemed to help a bit in a short test. I am not totally convinced that this is the answer until I see how it works over a couple more days of time.
Is this a valid test (with these, as I say, un-terminated cables hanging out there) or should I disconnect from the actual splitters themselves, leaving one long contiguous run (albeit with splitters as connectors in the long run) ?
Thanks again for all the input..
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Personally, so as to create a base line condition, I would go to Radio Shack and get a new 25 foot run of RG6 coax and connect it directly from the antenna to
ONE TV, probably the TV that is easiestly accessed, thru a window if necessary, with no pre-amps in line. Do a complete rescan on that one TV. This will tell you what stations will come in and signal strengths without splitters and pre-amps and numerous TV's, just the raw signals to one TV. I'd write down the signal strengths. I'd also get 3 female to female f-connector couplers. After you have the base line, go back to the current coax, one by one, add another TV on the current coax setup, using the couplers instead of splitters on the TV sections you won't be connecting, and replacing the coupler with a splitter as you add TV's, noting how the signals change as the TV's are added....eventually, you will see a pattern as the TV's are added. You may find that all the TV's can't be added because of the loss from the splitters and/or coax lengths....typically, the farthest away, most split off TV should have the weakest signals at the TV....just my 2 cents...