In Alaska you had to warm the cable to get a fitting on....rg-6 I am talking about. Not distribution or trunk......at -5, rg-6 is impossible to get a connector on unless you heat it with something and a lighter does the trick if it isn't windy. So not so crazy from that point of view.
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