Unhappy Wife
The other night, the TV stopped working. Home and Away was getting missed and the wife wasn't happy.
About 10 years ago I installed an active antenna, and used some crimp connectors to terminate the Quad Shield RG6. This cable carries both the RF signal and 5V DC to power the amp.
A quick measure with the multimeter showed that the volts were around 2V at the feed to the amp so it looked like there was an issue with the cable.
The outer insulation looked ok, but there was grey powder at the crimp connection itself.
So I stripped back the outer jacket to find:
- that I was right. The cable was stuffed.
