You don't mean a stereo patch cable do you?

If so, that's entirely the wrong kind of cable to be sending a satellite signal through, and could be the source of the problem.

Tony,

I'm sure he has something more like this

Uh, yeah. What do you take me for, Tony? Wait, don't answer that.

Besides, I don't think you could fit those stereo cable pins into a coax connector post. I think that would tip me off pretty quickly

Oh! I didn't know such a thing existed, I've only ever seen RG6 in single-cable spools.

Then again, I was eight years old before I discovered that meat came on pork chop bones.