Female adapters and splicing question.

[mike62]

I finally finished my upstairs family room and pre-wired it in anticipation of having a receiver there one day. Well, a few years back I was on Comcast before coming to DTV and the installers went wild cutting cables and cut the last 3 feet of cable from my prior install.

My 6X8 multiswitch is right there, however, at first it did not reach so I got a female adapter and connected the existing wire to a short 3 foot run then to the multiswitch. No signal at all. I remembered you can't splice it for satellite but I thought for a second its no different really than where it comes out of the wall that is basically a female adapter with a wall plate around it right?

Anyway, I was able to move my whole 6X8 multiswitch and pull, bend, and stretch my cable to nearly a 90 degree turn where it connects but did connect to the multiswitch directly and I have a signal.

Problem is my switch is suspended in mid air which I don't like plus there is a whole lot of tension on this one plug. Running new cable is not really an option. Is there any other suggestions? Is it possible the female adapter was not the right kind and another would work?

Please refresh my memory. Thank you.

[carl6]

Using standard "f" female barrel connectors should permit you to connect a short extension to the old wiring with no problem. I suspect that maybe you had a short in the extension, easy to do if you install your own connectors.

[veryoldschool]

"Barrels" are shouldn't hurt your signal "that much". I try to not used them if possible, but there are times...
90 degree bends are a real "no no".

You easily could have a bad barrel, or cable.
I've got one cable around here that doesn't make contact with the center conductor. It does on some, but not on others.

[P Smith]

90 degree 'bend' is OK as the radius is 1" at least.

[veryoldschool]

90 degree 'bend' is OK as the radius is 1" at least.
maybe you meant 1', because much less than about 4-6" is going to be too tight.