The most common problem with home-made TV Cable connections is poor contact
or no contact of the braided shielding to the body of the screw-on or
crimp-on connector. With bad contact, the picture looks like garbage or
worse. RG-59 connectors and RG-6 connectors are very similar, but have
different diameter and you really have to have the right ones.
-B

"orangetrader" wrote in message
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How do you tell if a cable is RG-59, RG-59U or RG-6?

If there an harm if these cables are used together? In other words, if
the
able from the outside to the outlet is RG-6 and from the outlet to the VCR
is RG-6 and from VCR to TV is RG-59U, will this cause problems? Is RG-6
the
best? I am not sure what the difference is, but I am getting bad images
on
some channels, and wonder if I would be using different cables and if this
can cause problems?

Thanks in advance,

O