Cut RG6 line, fixable?

[mikalh78]

My father-in-law was doing some yard work today and he accidentally cut one through one of the RG6 lines. We tried to add a male connector to the exposed ends and connected them to a female coupler. When we turned on one of the safs, certain channels were fine but then others would have a hard time appearing. The second sat however won't show picture at all. How can we fix this? We have a sw44 laying around and I was thinking of cutting the 2nd line coming from the sat and have the 2 lines go into the switch and have 2 coming from the house connected to the switch. Will this work?

[Macman]

To have a good quality connection, you needs to splice the wire with compression fit rg6 ends after stripping it back with a coax stripper and folding the shielding wire back (the braided wire just below the outer sheath. Maybe you can find a friend or someone who who knows someone that has the tools. Takes minutes.

What some people might do is buy the tools at a hardware store, use them and return when done. Not exactly ethical, but one use isn't going to make them look used.

Good luck!

[Pinza]

Is it possible that more than one line was damaged.

[sparks]

Make sure the female splice connector is rated for 3 Ghz.
Go to worldwidesatellites.com located in Ontario and click on "connectors", you will find two kinds - an F-barrel 1.5 GHz & an F-barrel 3 GHz, choose the 3 GHz one.