I've read two methods for stripping the cable: 1) Remove outer jacket, outer braid, and outer foil. Fold inner braid down around jacket and leave inner foil in contact with dielectric. 2) Remove outer ...

Have you considered multiswitches? We use a 4 port one at home. It combines TV & Sat signals into one cable and then in each room you have a diplexor to seperate the signals back to normal.