![]() ![]() is not something I do because a) I don't know how and b) even if I did know how, I don't have to right tools to tune/test/troubleshoot a CATV system. Every cable is homerun to a closet, absolutely no splitters - ever. The cable/satellite company does the rest. Like Hal said, if you don't know how, don't do it.Įven on commercial buildings with far fewer drop counts (max 200), all we do is pull in the RG6 from each drop to an IDF, mark it, and trim out the cable at the wallplate. If I can quote an early figure from my childhood: I'd like to take some credit for a good install, but the credit for the quality belonged to the design engineers who knew when to put in bigger cable, when to put in smaller cable, when to boost the signal and what equipment to use. TW fixed the feed and the picture was immaculate - everywhere. Then I dragged a monitor over to the Time Warner feed coming in and IT was terrible. I installed the job as designed and when it cut over the picture was terrible. I asked the engineer from the design company about these aberrations to the standard install and he said that if we had installed straight RG-11 we'd have troubles up the wazoo. In some places we had larger cable (RG-8 think, but I can't remember) and in some places we had amplifiers installed in the middle of the runs. I don't remember the exact amount but it was in the hundreds.īesides the fiber feeds for the studios, most of the job seemed to be RG-11 feeding RG-6 drops. I worked for the Electrical Contractor.īesides the major work in the studios, every desk had two screened Cat 6 cables (one each for Voice and Data) and an RG-6 for Video. (Both great, down-to-earth ladies BTW)There was a video engineering firm that was responsible for the design of the video system. The work was on several floors scattered throughout the complex and included the new studios for Connie Chung and Paula Zahn. When CNN was moving in I was the foreman responsible for (among other things) the Video. Years ago I did a lot of work at Time & Life's Headquarters Building in Rockefeller Center in NYC. Looking to see if this design is correct and if not would appreciate any suggestions to correct. Would I need more RG11 drops to this IDF? We are not providing any electronics but simply providing the infrastructure. Is this design viable? Am I splitting the cable too many times? Is one RG11 to each IDF going to be able to serve up to 64 connections? How many locations/drops can I get out of (1) RG11? I have one IDF that will be serving a possible 96 drops. Not having much experience with RG11 or cable TV my questions are: So to summarize I would have (1) RG11 to the each IDF, (1) 16 way splitter RG11 to RG6 in the IDF, (1) RG6 home run to each units media box and then each unit will have (1) 4-6 way splitter with 4-6 drops per unit. So worst case scenario if all the drops were live we would be looking at serving 64 locations from (1) RG11. ![]() Each unit will have approximately 4 RG6QS drops. From the IDF on every other floor I plan to run (1) RG6QS to a media box in each unit and from there RG6QS to the individual drop locations. Each floor has approximately 8 residential units. I plan on running (1) RG11 to every other floor. Later he also became the director of Chicago's city planning office.Hi All, I have just been tasked with designing a backbone for cable TV for a high rise building. ![]() Like many members of the Bauhaus, he emigrated to America where he arrived in 1938 to work for the practice of Mies van der Rohe in Chicago while heading the department of Urban Planning at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture. ![]() In 1929, Hilberseimer was hired by Hannes Meyer to teach at the Bauhaus in Dessau. In 1927, he was one of the fifteen architects who contributed to the influential modernist Weissenhof Estate exhibition. Thereafter he worked in different practices as well as an independent architect and urban planner and published numerous theoretical writings on art, architecture and urban planning. He then worked in the architectural office of Peter Behrens in Berlin. Hilberseimer studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Technical University from 1906 to 1910. Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer (4 September, 1885 - 6 May, 1967) was a German architect and urban planner best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and to Mies van der Rohe, as well as for his work in urban planning at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago. ![]()
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