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Using a large outdoor antenna for OTA broadcast to my UHD TV sets. The signal was intermittently weak so I purchased a $30 four way splitter, Monster Cable Ultra-high Performance Ultra Low Loss, Extended Bandwidth, 5 MHz to 2 GHz.
LINK: http://www.thriftcat.org/upc/050644455957/monster-cable-tghz4rf-mkii-2
Outside of the box indicates made in China, inside label attached to the splitter "Made in Taiwan".
This device comes with five plain rubber protective caps and three gold metal caps with have a male coax terminal, BUT there are absolutely no directions on when and where to use these metal caps. Called Monster tech support and they had no idea how and if to use these metal caps or terminators!!
Please help - - - - when and where to use the metal terminal end pieces ? There is one input and four outputs, so if using only two of the outs do these metal end pieces go on the unused two outs ? If so, why ? What happens if one caps the unused outs with the rubber end pieces ? Does performance go down ?
LINK: http://www.thriftcat.org/upc/050644455957/monster-cable-tghz4rf-mkii-2
Outside of the box indicates made in China, inside label attached to the splitter "Made in Taiwan".
This device comes with five plain rubber protective caps and three gold metal caps with have a male coax terminal, BUT there are absolutely no directions on when and where to use these metal caps. Called Monster tech support and they had no idea how and if to use these metal caps or terminators!!
Please help - - - - when and where to use the metal terminal end pieces ? There is one input and four outputs, so if using only two of the outs do these metal end pieces go on the unused two outs ? If so, why ? What happens if one caps the unused outs with the rubber end pieces ? Does performance go down ?