I read a little online and found that i needed a Coaxial Continuity Tester. This thing just determines if there is a short in the cable with just a light on one end or the cable is good if the tone generator goes off when connected to the other end of the cable.
So i plugged the battery into the connection point in each room and connected the tone generator to each of the cables in the cable box until I found the correct cable. I then marked the cable with a more meaningful name for the future.
After this one of the rooms still did not connect to a wire in the box. I decided to follow the cable in the attic and low and behold someone had cut the wire in the attic and used it to connect to another junction box. So i disconnected one of the other rooms and connected them with a Coax Cable Extension Adapter between the cables. Like magic I felt like the TV started working.
The Channel Master Installation kit has been a huge help in resetting the cable connectors where they were bad and needed to be replaced with new ones. This kit came with a stripper, the compression tool, and some connectors to get started.
This was an easy weekend project while March Madness has been going on.
On a side note go Florida Gulf Coast University #15 seed made it to the Sweet 16!
