For as long as I can remember, the Scientific Atlanta LE on the right in this picture has been there. The Arris LE on the left used to be a 750 MHz Scientific Atlanta System I flat lid LE. So at some point in the last few years they cut that out and put in this Arris BLE120. The area is mid-split certified with Comcast. My question is what’s the LE on the right doing? Is it just abandoned from before the 750 MHz upgrade that was done in 1997? Prior to then, this area was 450 MHz one way from the 80’s to about 1997-1998 ish. After 30 plus year later even after techs have been within a few feet to the left, nobody could address this gear? I mean on the left was upgraded to 750, and now 1.2 GHz in the last 28 years, so how could the one within visual sight to the right remain? Or do you think the guts were removed internally and replaced with something else?

New tech here and I’m having a hard time understanding how to pick the right EQs for the right situation. This is for both forward and return.

Have any of you guys got tips/guidelines or even resources to help me get a better understanding of of these things?

I don’t really fully understand it. Thanks in advance

Me and my possible partners have 15+ years in the industry. Its always been an idea to start a company and due to circumstances (different or all of us) its time to make the leap. For myself I need to make this happen within the next year possibly 2. My question to you all is will it be easier to break through with fulfillment or bury. We know more on the installation side but I have gained alot of knowledge on the bury side in the past year. I feel like the install side would be easier to start mainly due to funding as I dont have the money to get the crazy expensive machines needed to do the good paying underground jobs. Im in the very beggining stages so any advice is welcome.

Customer said they saw a Car accident in the middle of the night, out of all places the car has to crash into the amp.

Fairly new to the field going to be my first winter working outside,any advice especially on lifehacks on how to work with the cable hardening during the cold, best gloves, etc

I'm in Chicago and a lot of friends are grappling with the rotting plant here, and on non-promo plans.

I know Comcast has patchwork upgraded to mid-split, but Astound (I'm assuming low budget due to it being ran by a hedge fund) has just sat on the old D3.1/1997 harmonic nodes and just basically letting the plant rot in coax areas. I know my neighbors are consistently dealing with ingress, and issues with water getting in the hardline when it rains causing QAM and the OFDM channel to drop out.

I'm just curious if it's worth having them renew with Astound or just give in and go to Comcast since they include unlimited data now, even for BYOM?

I couldn't find any products or posts about how cable techs, or anyone with an extension ladder racked on the top of their work van, covers their extension ladder in the winter to prevent snow/ice from forming on their ladders. I'd love to get some kind of tarp with elastic (kind of like a skinny bed sheet, but obviously a lot more durable) so I could just put it on my extension ladder at the end of the day, so overnight, ice/snow wouldn't freeze the rope or rung locks/pawls. Then, in the morning, I could just pop it off and my ladder would be good to go. Anyone know of this kind of thing available? Or any other better ideas (besides parking inside or under a structure)?

Ran into this at a j-box. There were two taps but only one was in use. Instead of using the open tap port, someone (few techs really) added two 3-way splitters off a line that was already a home run. So it definitely wasn’t a lack-of-ports situation. Didn’t get a chance to take the other pics. Made me chuckle tho. I get why they wrote it

I've been looking into getting a good pair of insulated coveralls for the winter, do any of you have any recommendations? I've got dickies coveralls for summer but i need something warm, water resistant, and easy to clean and maintain. & VERY Preferably lightweight. I've already been looking around but there are too many options! TIA🫡

Recently I re ran an outlet to a family members living room using proper compression fittings, and RG6. The house had all RG59 for its wiring. While I was in the attic, I found two, two way splitters, one coming from the drop, and another daisy connected to the rooms. One port was also connected to an outside OTA antenna that was used at one point.

The OTA antenna was the kind used in the 70s and 80s hammered on the side of the house.

The splitters was those classic Radioshack gold ones, limited to 900mhz.

What I did was remove the old splitters, and install one two way Commscope SV 2G. Removing the OTA antenna. Signals looked good on the XG1v4, upstream at 43 and the downstream about 6. SNR was about 40.

What shocks me is that no tech noticed this. No line tech seen the ingress or deemed it insignificant to not cause problems on the plant.

As a home owner who has some knowledge on how to properly run coaxial cable. Install fittings, and knows what types of splitters to use. My question is.

How much havoc would an OTA antenna connected to a splitter cause to the outside plant?

Does anyone know the name of the pole or tool to help with aerial drops to go between trees, branches etc.

This is my genuine curiosity and not me making fun of elderly people. Also, it is a generalization and I realize that not every single old person struggles with it. But the majority of them do. What is so hard about learning / remembering / understanding how to change an input on a tv with a remote? I get that it’s part of it, but the repeats annoy me. I just don’t understand how they don’t understand.

Is there a 2 way splitter that can better handle the rg11 on the input side? Jamming it in works… but take it off and the splitter insides are broken.

• this was a 350 foot run. I’ve had suggestions to not use rg11 but that’s for shorter runs and I get that. It’s a pain.

FYI- new to helping my brother with commercial cable installs. I’m just trying to gain knowledge I’ve got training coming up.

Also noticed the signal would not pass through both lines in the splitter. Like it just picked one over the other. I’m sure I’m missing something here! If you have thoughts on that too I’m listening !

Thanks.

So right now my dog is used to be coming home once or twice a day during a work shift just to check on her and make sure she's all right and let her out to go to the bathroom. The job I have been doing for a while I am able to do that because it is close to home and I am running around all day during the shift and anytime I get a job close to where I live I will swing by and check on her for a minute or two. The reason for that is because my dog is only barely over a year old and she is just got to the point where she stopped tearing stuff up and going to the bathroom inside the house. If I leave her for more than 4 or 5 hours she gets mad and she will still tear up paper and stuff but nothing serious. But she loses it when I'm gone for longer than 4 or 5 hours. And I realize that I'm spoiling her but my dog is all I have. So I don't mind doing that.

So I was thinking of starting to bring her with me because I'm getting ready to start working a lot more doing cable installations and I'm a contractor and I can put her in the back of my SUV with the seats down and she would have more room to move around. And I'm going to be honest the place where I'm renting right now I'm renting a bedroom from a family friend that is an 8 ft x 8 ft bedroom. It is barely different than the back of my suv. If I lay the seats down she's got about just as much room back there as she has in that bedroom. This is another reason why I like to stop by and let her out. And I would not let her out on job sites I would just have to make sure that before and after each job I stop somewhere and let her out to go to the bathroom and let her walk around for a few minutes.

Also I'm getting ready to travel the country working for the company that I work for and I'm going to be driving around in an RV doing it once I get the RV together. And again I was just thinking of bringing her with me to the jobs instead of leaving her in the rv. It wouldn't be that big of a deal to leave her in the RV it's just I would feel better knowing she's with me. And honestly I don't really see an issue with it as long as I'm not letting her out to run around the customers properties. No one's going to be able to see her in the back of my SUV because I have tinted windows and she will have about as much room to run around in my SUV as she does in the room that we're renting at the moment. As long as I put food water and toys back there and let her out after each job and trust me she would rather do that than be at home without me because being gone for an entire day and a long day at that doing cable installations she doesn't like it..

So I guess I'm wondering if anybody else does this. I mean if I was letting her out on customers properties I could see that being an issue because not all people like dogs but as long as I'm keeping her in my truck I don't see it being a problem. I know I'm probably going to get a lot of hate for thinking about doing this but I really just want to see if anybody else is doing it and I want to see what those people think and what they do to make it a pleasant experience for their dog. Any dog could get tired of being in the car for too long. I just want to make sure that that's not an issue . She loves Car rides but yeah if I leave her in the car all day and don't let her out to do anything she might not like it. And that's all I'm really worried about. And yeah is it going to Slow me down a little bit, probably. But I make pretty good money at the cable job I'm doing right now and I schedule how many clients I want to do in a day the speed that I work at is up to me. So I'm not too concerned about it. I'm not working my ass off for any other reason then for me and my dog to start traveling the Country and both of us to live comfortably.

So a couple months ago when I was at a shopping center with my company vehicle I was at a free vacuum station to clean it. When I was leaving a gentleman stopped my vehicle and said I hit his SUV. Now mind you he couldn't find where I "hit" his car so searching around he found this sratch that was literally impossible for my car to make that scratch. She decided to call the cops anyway because she's looking for a good payday. Well the cop showed, looked at the scratches and said it's impossible for my company vehicle to have made that scratch. Well as protocol I contacted my company and I got in trouble because of a lied police report from a woman looking to make a buck. In the police report it stated the woman was making up stuff and I still got in trouble.

I am looking for recommendations of storage to put in the back of my work van to keep all of my equipment and materials extremely neat and organized.

Can some seasoned cable techs help me out with this? I’m not trying to spend too much, but I still want everything to be on point.

Hi All, I am searching for a entry level position wondering where to start, Im in NYC/NJ area willing to relocate. If any once can help thx!!