On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, PicDude wrote:

> That's what the female connectors look like, but what would be the purpose of
> the closed "cover" screwed onto them?  And why so many?

If they come out at other places in the house then there is a Y splitter 
somewhere. The covers prevent an unloaded Y arm from being unmatched. 
The covers should contain a matching resistor each.

> The short story here is that my tenants just moved out of the house, and there
> connectors are now here, which I don't recognize as being there before.  I
> thought they might have had satellite TV, but can't understand why they'd
> need more than one.

You need one per dish (one per LNB is using offset LNBs on the same 
dish). Many people would use 2 dishes plus a local antenna.

Peter
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