Call your local cable company and see if they'll come out and find it for you. They employ both truck-mounted and handheld "sniffers" that are looking for radiated signals to both keep the system working properly as well as to catch bootleggers.
You could probably use a portable TV with a RG-6 "pigtail" hanging off it's cable input to see if you could pin it down that way. FWIW, if he knows what wall space it's in, why not just cut a hole the size of a "ready box" and fish around? That's what I did in our house, only because I scammed the builder out of wiring it for cable because of the obscene amount of money they wanted per drop - something like $35/each. I waited until the night before the drywallers came, and ran cable to every room in the house and back to the head end - home runs for each one. My local cable company even gave me the cable for free. I nailed the boxes up and ran the cables. The drywallers came in the next day and sealed it all up. When the electrician was installing all the devices he kept scratching his head about "I don't remember all these cable outlets being in the plans." Hee. Dan --- archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My son has a cable distribution center that was > installed when his house was > built. Cables were run to all the rooms in the > house but the installers > forgot to put a broadband jack in one room. He had > verified that the cable > had been run to that room when the house was under > construction, and he > knows approximately where it ends, but he doesn't > want to tear into the wall > in order to find it. > > I told him we might be able to find approximately > where it was by moving the > antenna of a portable TV around that part of the > wall looking for the > strongest TV signal, but I wasn't sure if the cable > signal would radiate > strongly enough from the cut end of the cable. > > Another thing we thought of was generating an AM or > FM signal from the > distribution box end of the cable and then looking > for the strongest signal > in the room using a portable AM-FM radio. > Unfortunately, I don't have a > signal generator anymore. > > A third idea was using two walkie-talkies; wrapping > one in aluminum foil > with the distribution box end of the cable and an > electric razor turned on > inside the foil to make a noise. One of us would > hold the transmit button > on and the other would search the wall with the > other walkie talkie; looking > for the strongest signal. > > Any and all suggestions would be appreciated. > Thanks, > Gerry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
