WatlingA5
New Member
Ever since we moved here, we've had "LNB Short" notices pop up from time to time when we changed channels. We ended up checking all the coax cable fittings and found something I'd always understood should never, ever be done. Each one had one strand of the copper mesh touching the core. Not just touching, but wound - ever so neatly - round the core.
It's been done so neatly we needed an optician's eyeglass to make sure we were not imagining it.
I accept that things may have changed since I was mucking about with aerial leads in the 70s but, being a somewhat cynical person, can't help thinking the local trader who fitted the quad LNB to the dish and the wall sockets was setting up a bit of follow-up work on a "mystery problem that might take a while to fix".
If anyone can confirm that he was doing it right, and that I'm wrong, I'll make my apologies now
It's been done so neatly we needed an optician's eyeglass to make sure we were not imagining it.
I accept that things may have changed since I was mucking about with aerial leads in the 70s but, being a somewhat cynical person, can't help thinking the local trader who fitted the quad LNB to the dish and the wall sockets was setting up a bit of follow-up work on a "mystery problem that might take a while to fix".
If anyone can confirm that he was doing it right, and that I'm wrong, I'll make my apologies now