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Abbreviations
TQA
100

This device compensates for tilt produced by coaxial cable 

Equalizer

100

SNR stands for this

Signal to noise ratio

100

The current CEO of Charter Spectrum

Chris Winfrey

100

HDMI

High definition multimedia interface

100

Drop Clearance requirement for residential driveways

12 ft

200
This device drops the signal, without regard to frequency. Reduces level equally. 

Attenuator

200

Unwanted noice getting into the coaxial network 

Ingress

200

Charter recently acquired Time Warner and this Company

Brighthouse Networks

200

OFDM

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

200

This is the color used to mark the ground for electric lines

Red

300

This layer of the OSI is the 1st and lowest layer

Physical Layer

300
RG 6 coaxial has the characteristic impedance of this

75 Ohms

300

The year Charter acquired Time Warner Cable 

2016

300

NEC

National Electric Code

300

This is the color used to mark the ground for telecommunications

Orange

400

Using a compass, to find the position of a sateliite in the sky, you measure the azimuth and this

Elevation

400

Coaxial cable loss does this when the temperature increases

Increases

400

This is demonstrated when the phone wires are pulled from the out on a phone rocker

Line seizure

400

POTS

Plain Old Telephone Service

400

The E in E=IR

Voltage

500

Abbreviated as DOCSIS

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications

500

Cable leaks are commonly measured in this unit

Microvolt

500

DOCSIS Upstream frequency range

5-42 MHz

500

CSO

Composite Second Order

500

Minimum drop clearance over water

14 ft

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