I've lost the video somewhere between my living room and my office in another part of the house. What can I use other than lugging a TV around, to check for signal at various junction points? This would be a simple VHF/UHF RF feed on coax, leaves my DVD player/hard drive, eventually arrives at a DVD player/hard drive in the Office, which passes to my computer's video card.

I thought about trying to find a used handheld TV. What else will work? I've seen a Satellite band signal finder for $40, but it doesn't go below about 900Mhz.

Thank You,
Mike

I've lost the video somewhere between my living room and my office in another part of the house. What can I use other than lugging a TV around, to check for signal at various junction points? This would be a simple VHF/UHF RF feed on coax, leaves my DVD player/hard drive, eventually arrives at a DVD player/hard drive in the Office, which passes to my computer's video card.

I thought about trying to find a used handheld TV. What else will work? I've seen a Satellite band signal finder for $40, but it doesn't go below about 900Mhz.

Thank You,
Mike
A portable TV set (5") would be your best bet. Meters are several hundred dollars.

I've lost the video somewhere between my living room and my office in another part of the house. What can I use other than lugging a TV around, to check for signal at various junction points? This would be a simple VHF/UHF RF feed on coax, leaves my DVD player/hard drive, eventually arrives at a DVD player/hard drive in the Office, which passes to my computer's video card.

I thought about trying to find a used handheld TV. What else will work? I've seen a Satellite band signal finder for $40, but it doesn't go below about 900Mhz.

Thank You,
Mike

I am not exactly sure what kind of problem you are trying to find. If it's a cut wire or the equivalent, you can just screw a terminator on the connector at the source and check with an ohm meter at various points along the path. If you have a solid cable you should read 75 ohms on the ohm meter. If the cable is cut, you will see an open circuit or infinite resistance.

Thanks Ed. After leaving the post, I did some searching for "handheld tv", and am finding (to my amazement) some 2.5" to 3" tv's for - well, I don't know yet, but possibly as little as $20 + shipping. So I can't imagine any cheaper way to see how my signal is doing at various points.

Thanks again,
Mike

Emcgrath,
Thanks for the reply. I was trying not to get too complicated in my original post, by mentioning there are also DEVICES along the way. So a simple test for continuity won't work. It looks like I'll go with a used handheld tv.

Thank you,
Mike