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    New Home Wiring Advice

    Series 59 cable can create intermod within the cable, yielding 6MHz beats and raising the noise floor. At lower freq's its fine, but as you increase in frequency(> 1GHz) there is more propensity to create the CPD-Intermod issues. Also Dish (and Direct) is not MoCA, its a proprietary multi-room...
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    Dish Hopper/Joey moca doesnt work for me. D*?

    Do you have an old wireless phone, 4G phone, or a cel tower somewhat (.5 mi or less) away? A single loose connector or a exposed wire can introduce noise in the Muti-room DVR band that Dish uses, causing the hopper to break communication with the joeys and eventually orphaning them. I would...
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    1303 Errors for Joeys - Fixed by Replacing the NODE

    Anything after the sat lines entering the node MUST BE TIGHT!!!!!!!! Cannot be stressed enough!!!!! A loose connector (less than 5 degrees from fully finger tight) in the hopper joey setup is death to the system and results in joeys searching for hoppers and then the stuck 1303 screen of death...
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    What is the Max length of cable run?

    You are correct, MPEG4 requires less data to assemble the frames, the strength of the signal beam needs to be sufficient to create a sufficient SNR that the receiver can distinguish signal from ambient noise, as long as the strength of the signal hitting the LNB (or at the end of a long run the...
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    Perfect Vision Coaxial Cable

    Not to beat an old horse, but first off not all PV is solid copper, 2nd not sure that each box is swept to 3GHz (Testing seems to conflict), 3rd solid copper is for powering the LNB(s), has ZERO effect on the signal at the 1+GHz range, and if truly solid is wayyy more expensive to produce from...
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    Coax Cable as a basic component

    Sadoun shows an old school 11 that was feed-thru (I shudder, its the top one, the pico-macom) which is what your speaking of, where the CC fed thru the connector body and was inserted into the port. It bent the heck out of the port contacts, sometimes shorting the internal contact to the outer...
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    RG6 Quad Shield Cable Black vs White?

    Perhaps, but its not used as the UV protectant in most PVC cables (at least ones of any quality). Each cable manufacturer will have a proprietary blend of PVC and a "protectant", some protectants merely strengthen the bonds in the polymer, others will change the molecular structure to tighten...
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    PPC Perfect?

    The "indoor" series does have the UV stabilizer additive in it. Some people when ordering see "outdoor quad shield" and order it thinking that means it has the messenger for aerial or sat usage. So the idea was anything that is a plain cable is called "indoor", anything with a messenger or...
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    is RTV out of order?

    OH NO!!!! NEVER, EVER, PUT ANY "GOO" IN THE FACE OF THE CONNECTOR. This is the worst thing you can do to try and mitigate moisture migration! What happens is the "goo" fills the nut, then when you put it on the port it hydraulically forces the extra goo into the port, this causes the impedance...
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    solid copper wire

    perfect vision from a lab standpoint is some hard to deal with stuff, their manufacturer WAY over uses adhesive on the dielectric, thats due to a high coefficent of expansion in the copper core vs a low coefficent in their chosen dielectric foam, by gluing the heck out of the dielectric to the...
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    solid copper wire

    This is the issue we have pointed out for years to DirecTV, lack of proper port seals equals GUARANTEED trouble calls. You have it correct to some degree, water penetrating thru the threads is BAD!!! it corrodes the threads isolating ground, creates shorts from the CC (battery) to post (ground)...
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    solid copper wire

    A few comments quickly. 1. CCS has better propagation than solid copper, i.e. for high frequency rf, ccs is a better cable. For power passing CCS sucks and is high resistance as you raise the current flow, hence why DirecTV is lowering the amount of power passed over the wire. Reality going...
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    is RTV out of order?

    There is a reason those PPC connectors DO NOT have a o-ring or "washer" in them. Notice any connector of quality doesn't have them, because they can cause the ground to float, raising the potential for issues later such as lightning strikes, equipment damage, and the dreaded pixelization and...
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    cable langth

    I don't know about imitation cable, but I have seen people visually mistake LMR 50ohm cable for RG-11 (I've done it several times in the lab) Seems right until its connector installation time.
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    What type of F connectors+

    In the past few years alot more development has begun into the cables we're using. As bandwidth expectations increase so has the need to redesign cable we once were fine with because it passed sufficient signal, gone are those days where a soldered together splice mid-reel was common place. A...
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    Compression connector question

    Lowes doesn't carry PPC, with no name recognition they don't see the value in it. HD carries PPC thru the Ideal distributorship. They carry 5 and 50 packs of the EX6XL, same connector sold to cable and sat. Price to the public I suppose is fair, but for the pro you can do much better thru Budco...
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    Compression connector question

    What defines a perfect crimp? I agree to an imperfect crimp, crimp will always leave 6 points of moisture entry (the raised points in the crimp) even "outdoor" crimps with silicone sealing gel will eventually heat in the environment and the sealing gel will dissipate in the cable. Crimp...
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    Compression connector question

    Sorry, same connector, they don't make them any different for Ideal who distributes them into HD. They just go into a 10K box rather than being bagged in 50's NOW, there are 2 lengths, EX and XL, HD only carries XL because it uses the same compression tool throw as CMP and SNS and Stirling and...
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    Who makes the best multi-fit connector?

    Well that is what makes America great, the ability to agree to disagree. You like Stirling, and that's great. If you like them, then use them. But I need to use what is approved, and after reviewing testing done both by cable and satellite companies and my own experiences I find that I have to...
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    RG-6 Cable Connection

    I hear and agree, twist on and crimp is just bad business. The idea of any install is to do the install, satisified customer, get paid, never look back AND GET REFERALS down the road. Both crimp and twist on almost guarantee trouble calls and upset customers, neither of which get you referals...
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    RG-6 Cable Connection

    I have to admit the cmp's weathertightness is not as solid as the ex but its not bad either, its very comparable to the sns in testing. As far as the price thing, well it is a giant markup, I'm quite sure the re-sellers didn't pay more than what a cable or satellite company would and yet they...
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    Cable v. Satellite

    HD20, anyone else see alot of failures?
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    Who makes the best multi-fit connector?

    Hard question to answer, What connectors are approved for your system? PPC and SNS are approved for dish and direct, Stirling is not, I think I'd rather use an approved product than get charged back just to save a few cents. SNS is imported, PPC is made in NY, not sure where stirlings are...
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    Did everybody know how many patents PPC has?

    They have over 250 patents, many more applied for. Many of the patents are from trap designs, connectors no longer in production, and material design (like plastic formulations). As for why they don't sue more often, they do, just noone hears about it, many cases are settled in patent cases...
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    Did PPC stop making the SUV series?

    SUV has ceased production, PPC shut down production a few weeks ago, no customers left to sell them to. Crimp was fine in its day, but compression creates a more weather sealed connection, along with the ability to pass the higher frequencies required for sat as we look to the future.