We would take a signal reading (if you were lucky you had one of the new fangled battery powered meters or you may have a trusty Jerrold 704. A few of the crews working for me on storm damage this year got to see on my truck. You would see what your signal level was and calculate your drop loss then install the proper stinger to get signal to the house.
Most customers only had one TV and there was no internet, VOIP, or pay per views. So we did. We did not have much concern over ingress or egress back then either. Of course that’s back when The Green Channel became HBO and we started having our first movie channel’s That’s also about the time when Time Warner launched Sight On Sound locally in Columbus Ohio later to become MTV and we had the Pinwheel channel later to become Nickelodeon.
But that was the good old days. The only thing the same these days is we are seeing 1970’s pay in 2009
