On 11/1/2012 1:55 PM, Patrick Dyer wrote:
This Sep 1983 CATV egress (Ch 4, zero-beat local off) was due to an
east-adjacent illegal tap (the days before Texas had enacted
theft-of-service statutes) http://www.qsl.net/w/wa5iyx//images/833311.jpg
The responding tech simply changed the 4-port terminal at the backyard
pedestal (service, underground, had only come to this area of town in
1981) to a 3-port. The perp/renters were evicted a month later - likely
for other reasons.
Most other serious CATV egress incidents around here have been due to
the classic "dog chewed cable" scenario (their work tickets actually
list that as an option!).
And justifiably so.
They need one for cat chewed the cable as well.
I have the house wired for cable as well as CAT6.
Our phone quit working. We'd had many problems before with the system
going down after a rain storm. I didn't find anything so they sent out a
service tech. He showed a short in the house. Service call, problem on
my end, $50. So, I started looking again. This time I did find a
short...so, I hunted and hunted. Then I remembered a dead end run to my
den that was no longer used. There, back behind the one desk was a cable
with IIRC 4 pair. The cat had chewed the insulation off and ended up
twisting the bare wires together. I couldn't have done a neater job if
I tried.
73
Roger (K8RI)
73, Pat - WA5IYX
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