Gerry,
If his cable company is like Cox here they charge 70 bucks an hour
to find the cable for you and he may have to wait 2 weeks for them to do it.
Lowes Home Depot used to have a inexpensive Network Tone Generator.
Around 30 bucks. I tried to find it on their online catalog but it
wasn't
Hi Russ,
Not sure which cable company my son has in Orlando. I live near a small
town on the west coast of Florida. We have Bright House in this subdivision
and there seems to be competing companies since they have ads in the paper
from time to time.
I'll look for a tone generator in the local
I was at Lowes this afternoon and saw a toner for $40 -- it was in the
AV and network area, by the electrical aisle.
I'll look for a tone generator in the local Lowes and Home Depot if he
doesn't get the cable company to locate the cable inside the wall. Thanks,
Gerry
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OK Don, KD5NRO
I just checked my Stanley stud finder which only seems to signal the presence
of metal. I imagine that Fluke non-contact voltage tester is fairly expensive.
Might be able to do something with the nine volt current.
Just happened to think that I have several old CB radios which have antenna
Well the fluke non-contact voltage tester is $30 I believe. Also if
you look at say
http://ca.fluke.com/caen/promotions/demoEquipment/default.asp?pagestep=2locale=caen
(canada, but usa should have a site)
you can sometimes nab quite a decent fluke product for *much* less.
On Apr 11, 2008, at
Just happened to think that I have several old CB radios which have
antenna jacks. Could hook the distribution box end of the cable up to
one CB and search with the other; using 12v power supplies on both ends.
Gerry
That'd probably work. They also sell in-wall wire tracers,
but it's
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
Hi Dan,
Getting the cable company to find it sounds like a possible solution. I'll
forward your message to my son and he can check with them first.
On cutting a hole and fishing, he knows which wall the cable is in , but
he's not absolutely sure which wall studs its between AFAIK.
The pigtail
I know that BrightHouse (TimeWarner) will come out and
do it here - I suspect they look at it as an addition
to their revenue stream.
As for the pigtail approach, it's crude, but might
work. There's a pretty good signal that radiated from
an exposed cable, so I would suspect that you have a
good
I bought a wire tracer at Home Depot, or Lowes, a couple years ago for $30.
It worked as good as the commercial tracer I had at work that cost $300 10
years ago.
Jim Friesen
Phoenix AZ
79 300SD, 264 K miles
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In a message dated 4/11/2008 10:09:46 P.M. US
He may have Brighthouse in Orlando; that's what we have here. If the cable
company won't find it, we can try the TV pretty easily.
Thanks,
Gerry
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I know that BrightHouse (TimeWarner) will come out and
do it here -
Good to know that, Jim. If the cable company won't find it and the TV
doesn't find it, we can get a tracer there pretty quick.
Thanks,
Gerry
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I bought a wire tracer at Home Depot, or Lowes, a couple years ago for
$30.
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
Would one of those stud finders that also know about electrical lines
work.
Also my Fluke non-contact voltage tester also makes lots of claims
about sensing things
maybe if you run 9V thru the wire...
Still I think the walkie-talkies make sense.
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