Originally Posted by Robbo  It will work worse like that, if the splitter is not broken it will give less loss on each leg than simply shoving two wires together.
This is because connecting the wires together causes an impedance mismatch, with each wire suffering a loss of approx 10 dB, whereas with a splitter it will only be about 4dB. |
Correct, and just simply using a booster might not work either because too much noise will result in breakup, you cannot polish a bad signal through amplification.
But if it works for you then great !