Review on Mediabridge Coaxial Cable F Male Connectors by Steve Hauck

This is the second coaxial cable in my setup from Mediabridge and these cables never disappoint. Anyway, the cable is good and I highly recommend their products. Point. The review is over. Besides that, I'm a computer nerd by trade. One of my first jobs was at Radio Shack selling CB crystals to truck drivers. Something that used to be huge was covered in gold. Gold plated coaxial cables, audio cables, headphone jacks, etc. Everyone thought that buying the most expensive Monster branded cable would give them the sound quality or picture clarity they couldn't get anywhere but their living room. Stupid people, when will they learn? I've seen my share of cables and connectors of varying quality. In comparison, these Mediabridge cables are of decent quality. The plastic coating on the actual connector is nice. As well as the fact that the connector itself has a correctly cut core and deep threads that ensure a strong connection the first time. Have you ever changed your AV equipment and found your coaxial connections failing over time? No, then you should check your connections. Such things can be avoided by tapping a neat and long thread well on said connector. For real. Take the plug and look inside and see how deep it is before the socket fails. Now look at the socket and the thread length. See you have a lot of threads on the female part of the cable but not usually that many on the male part of the cable? So yes, the small things in design annoy me, and that's why I appreciate these cables and their build quality. are you still reading Why? Oh, here is some information. I have two Mediabridge cables, one 15ft and the other 4ft (this cable). A 15 foot cable connects the wall to my cable modem and a 4 foot cable connects my antenna array to my HDHomerun network TV tuner. See. I originally bought a fairly expensive antenna on the advice of a support rep who I contacted when my HDHomerun Connect was not recording compared to my old USB TV tuner card. The only suggestion they made that helped a lot was to eliminate those little "amplifiers" that they include when you buy a DTV antenna. These things are garbage. They also offered a more expensive antenna that didn't work. So in the end don't ask me where this idea came from, I came up with the idea of just taking two cheap paper sized DTV antennas that I already have and combining them. This idea has unsettled some internet nerds. "You can't do that", "You're an idiot" were the offers I got. It was only about $14 to try it out so I figured why not and ordered a coax splitter/combiner and this mediabridge cable. Two cheap antennas worked, one on the south wall and one on the east window. The biggest problem with these cheap antennas is the cable attached to them. It's a cheap cable that really should be shielded better (if at all), so take good care of it. I had to mount the antennas high (using 3M command strips) and make sure their cables ran as low as possible in a straight line down the wall. Then I just tied them together with a splitter and ran them 4 feet up the wall to the tuner. Because this mediabridge cable is well shielded, I had no trouble plugging it in along with my power supply, and the ethernet runs through the back of the desk. If you have reached this point, I commend you. I love these cables and will now use "mediabridge" as a search criteria.