Check out this cable reel if you’d like to take care of your audio/video cables a bit better

May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 Aaron Manfull 849 Views 0 Comments cables, Ethernet, HDMI, organization, SDI

I’ve been working to level up my video broadcast knowledge the past few years and much of the last few months I’ve been focusing on cables, cable management and connectors.

While I’m still not proficient in properly winding up a cable and storing it, I did get recommended these JackReel cable reels as an option to use for storing cables.

I ordered three and got them in the mail this week and they actually worked pretty slick. They had a little clasp on each side for me to hook the ends on to and within a few minutes, each of my 150-foot SDI cables were saved from the rats nest they were existing in and wound up nicely on these reels.

Cables need to be stored properly to keep kinks from getting in the lines and rendering them useless.

You can find the JackReel cable reel that I purchased and am using here.

While these will work for now, I will work to level up on winding the cables by hand and share that milestone when I finally advance to proficient.

Aaron Manfull

Aaron is in his 26th year of advising student media. He is currently the Director of Student Media at Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles, Missouri. He is the Journalism Education Association Digital Media Chair and co-Director of Media Now. He is the 2023 JEA Teacher Inspiration Award Winner and is a former Dow Jones News Fund National Journalism Teacher of the Year. He is one of the authors of the textbook "Student Journalism and Media Literacy." You can find him on X and Instagram @manfull. He's a proud father. A transplanted Iowan. And an avid Hawkeye Fan.

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