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I have what I think is an unsual question which I couldn't find an
answer to: in my attic there is a coax splitter with several coax
outputs to coax cables which snake into the ceiling and disappear in
the boweles of the house. They are all of the same color and have no
identifying marks. In the house itself, there are coax jacks in
several rooms.

And now the question: is there a way to determine, without buying
expensive equipment, which cable in the attic leads to which room?
Since not all coax jacks in the rooms are connected to a tv, it's not
just a matter of disconnecting one cable after another from the
splitter and seeing which tv loses its signal.

Other posters have given you reasonable suggestions for identifying the
cables. But I'm wondering why it matters as long as each outlet is feeding
the same signal from the same source -- the splitter.

A caveat --

In a setup such as yours, each unused outlet should have a 75 ohm
terminator. Radio Shack has them. Unterminated cables can mess up the
signal to the active devices on the network.

SJF