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"Time how long the round-trip takes and you can pinpoint where the break is"

Make breaks A and B near the endpoints. Make a third break X, between A and B, and install splitter at X.

Might be able to kill the power to the line amps as well, install while it is being repaired. That could spread suspicion a little wider than the same line.

Maybe this is why they hire some drunk captain to conveniently "drop anchor" on the line somewhere else while they go about their work.

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