Talked to a homeowner about his "temporary" coax splice from 2008

I was out on a service call last week in a town called Oakridge, pulling a new line for a guy who kept losing signal. He shows me in his crawlspace this splice held together with electrical tape and a zip tie, said he did it "just for the weekend" back in 2008. He was proud it lasted 16 years but I had to explain how much signal loss that thing was causing. Has anyone else run into crazy old temp fixes that really make you wonder how people think?

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hart.parker5mo ago

Read somewhere that tape splices can lose 5-10 decibels, that's brutal.

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ray_carr5mo ago

Dare I say that tape splice is basically part of the house now.

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