Shameless plug: If you missed the March 8th livestream event with Brady Volpe and yours truly, or would like to see it again, a link to the recording is included below. The title of the session is “Chemistry Class: Debunking a Widespread Myth.” You may have heard about a so-called capacitance effect or static buildup that supposedly causes RF signal levels to drop, resulting in snowy pictures on analog TV channels, or digital signals having codeword errors (think packet loss, tiling in the picture, etc.). When the subscriber drop cable is disconnected from, say, a ground block or tap port, connected to a field meter, disconnected from the meter and reconnected to the original mating interface, everything is now okay. The culprit must have been a mysterious discharge of that capacitance or static buildup. Nope, it’s nothing more than good ol’ corrosion. This presentation explains what is really going on. Here’s a link to the video: https://youtube.com/live/g_4VBmZeM8U