Can It Be the Coax Cable

[Jim202259KL]

Originally Posted by BobC

It's possible and the employee is probably right. Remember when TV broadcasters first changed to digital and we all had those little black converter boxes to convert the digital over the air signal to analog for our analog TVs.

This would explain the snowiness you mention. A digital signal wouldn't do this, as the info Brian posted explains.

I don't understand why they would do this, but it's possible their system has signal amplifiers in it that are analog holdovers from the old days. You can't split coax cables ad infinitum without suffering signal gradation and cable length is also a factor. Both of these could explain the existence of signal amplifiers. It's also possible that there's something else that is limiting them such as type of cable, etc. Re-cabling an entire campground can be prohibitively expensive.

Here's a relevant thread from forestriverforums.com:

https://www.forestriverforums.com/fo...tv-205496.html

Thanks for the link. Read all the comments. So it seems this campground (like most others) is sending out an analog signal because its cabling system is designed for analog and cannot handle digital. So the signal is degraded. Apparently it's very expensive to re-cable a campground.

[bigb]

Originally Posted by bigb

Pretty much any of them will work, if you were my neighbor I'd just make you one, I still have a 500 foot roll and a container full of compression connectors. That said I am considering getting one with easy grip ends to make things easier at camp.
https://www.thecimpleco.com/products...-25-feet-black

Just to let people know this product arrived and was not as advertised. It was just a 25 foot cable with molded ends on it, no easy grip connectors as advertised. I complained to the seller and they offered a refund if I returned it but not worth the hassle.