Insights
From the Field
Field notes, engineering deep dives, and practical perspectives on HFC network health from the CPAT team
FIELD STORY · TALL TALES FROM A CRUSTY OLD CABLE GUY
The Day I Stopped Trusting
My Field Strength Meter
For thirty years, level-in-spec meant the job was done. Then a customer with perfect levels and terrible service taught a 30-year veteran that his most trusted tool was answering the wrong question.
FIELD DATA · INGRESS DETECTION
Ingress Problem,
Field Reality
Nearly half of detected upstream events show no leakage signature at all. Here’s why ingress and leakage are not the same problem, and why systems built to find one often can’t see the other.
BACK TO BASICS · RF ENGINEERING
The Legend of Arni’s Woodpecker
How one bird, a stretch of .540 distribution cable in the back of a wooded lot, and a stubbornly intermittent ingress signature became company legend and how active probing would have settled it on a single drive.
