Yeah, if you plug into the open port, you can disco the drops one at a time, and if you have a bad drop, you should see it on your meter, it you have an analyzer like on an SDA.
I liked using the 'pull the faceplate' method that I described before, as that way you are only looking at the noise caused by the drops on that tap, while when you look at it while hooked to a tap port, you're seeing all of the noise on the leg at the same time. If the noise on the drops is lower than where the noise floor reads on your meter, you may not notice it when you remove the drops while hooked to the tap port, if you have a bigger problem somewhere else causing the noise floor to be raised. You could find the larger problem, and then discover that you have to return to the same location because now that the noise floor has been lowered, you can see noise on the drops that you couldn't see before because the noise floor was too high.
Re: Not Possible Testing At Tap "F" Port
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