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Abstract

A cable television multi-tap system for forwarding signals to multiple customers from a main cable, and for receiving individual return signals from respective subscribers includes a printed circuit board secured to the inside face of the respective tap plates of a plurality of multi-taps, respectively, with each printed circuit board including at least first and second electrical receptacles for receiving a selected one of a plurality of first and second plug-in modules, respectively, said plurality of first plug-in modules providing different levels of directional coupling, respectively, and said plurality of second plug-in modules providing individually one or a combination of different levels of forward equalization, return path or backward equalization, cable simulation, high tap value filtering, high pass filtering, low pass filtering, band rejection, shunting, and noise filtering to optimize the signal quality of signals forwarded from the headend of the system to subscribers, and return signals from subscribers back to the headend.

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