In Reply to: FM Signal Strength posted by jcmusic on January 18, 2007 at 11:04:46:
One of the two cables may have more or less plumbing, heating or AC ductwork, or electrical wiring in the vacinity of the cable or have a somewhat differing mechanical/electrical connection continuity at the antenna. Two cables connected to the same antenna w/o a splitter is not a good idea as the un-used cable then becomes a feed-line tuning stub that is not ideally tuned. Likely if you measured resistance between conductors they will also be different @ each termination. Solution is to run a single antenna feed to just one of the rooms, & add a room-to-room cable run for the other room which may then be splice-connected to the antenna feed when desired (IOW not both rooms at the same time w/o a splitter).
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- Re: FM Signal Strength - Ron Oehlert 18:54:32 01/19/07 (1)
- Re: FM Signal Strength - jcmusic 19:17:41 01/19/07 (0)