Anyone had success making long RCA cables from scratch? In theory, it's simple. An RCA cable is just a pair of wires, both connected to a tip/ring plug at each end. Pretty much any strand of wire will ...

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Tomorrow I'm going to be running some RG59 cable to a room so I can hook up a TV in there for cable. My uncle has some bulk cable and some connectors lying around, so I figure I'll just make my own.

How do you know that your patch cables are good? For simple jumper wires, a multimeter is about all you need to know for sure. But things can get weird in the RF world, in which case you might want to ...