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This is how now two coax cables (TV Digital RG6 75 oHm and satellite Internet RG6/U Type CMR 18 AWG) enter my home. I'd like to make a hole right next to the electrical outlet, pull in the cables behind the drywall into the hole and install a coax cable wall plate where the cables will be connected - nice and tight.

The cables are running from outside the house into a cut-through hole (you can see insulating foam). My question is: will it be safe to have coax cable lay close to the electrical one? I read that it is OK to have them laid out in a perpendicular way, rather than parallel. I presume that electrical cable runs parallel to the floor, so in this picture the coax cable "should" be in safe. I just don't want to drill the drywall in vain if this is not going to work :)

I'd appreciate helpful comments and advises. Thanks!

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FreeMan
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If you don't have interference problems now, you should be fine putting a cable box in that location.

Use an old works low voltage box. ( there is no need for completely enclosed boxes for low voltage.) Get the cover plate that you need and the project is done.

RMDman
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