"mm" wrote in message
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I hope you guys can help me again.

I gather from posts here that RG6 is better than RG59, is
that right?

Could the use of of RG59, 33 feet, for at least one tv be
responsible
for my bad reception on that tv?

I'm using co-ax for distributing tv from my DVDR to TVs
throughout the
house. (The DVDR tunes in the over-the-air digital signal
and I have
an RF modulator to change the DVDR output to analog. I
did the wiring
to the tvs 25 years ago, and I used left-over and scrap
co-ax, so the
co-ax is older than 25 years. Did they have RG-6 25 or 30
years ago?
I didn't pay attention then so I don't know what most of
it is, but
the 33 foot piece going to this one tv is RMS Electonics
Inc. 59/U.

Everything was fine until the digital conversion, and now
this tv that
I watch a lot shows a grainy picture. All the other tvs
have great
pictures, and even for this one, when I supply a signal
directly from
a set-top digital converter box, only 3 feet of cable, it
shows a
perfect picture**.

Do you think replacing the RG59 with RG6 will get me the
perfect
picture other sets get? I didn't use home-runs, just
splitters and
every two splitters a signal amp, a total of three signal
amps, one
with 2 or 4 outputs, and two with 2. Would an additional
signal amp
at the start of the RG-59 also give me perfect or at least
improved
reception?

**(But the set-top box isn't connected to the main antenna
and
doesn't get several stations I watch, nor will it play
what is
recorded on the DVDR.)

Yes RG6 existed 25 years ago. You have something else wrong.
The difference in loss between 33 feet of RG59 vs. RG6 is
negligible at VHF and at most a few dB at the higher UHF
frequencies. What else is in that 33 foot span?

David