Topic: quick coax cable q

[zhianosatch]

I'm itching to transfer tonight's tapes and I'm away from my home deck and good ol' Radio Shack coax cable. All I have is my D8, computadora with the Waveterminal 2496, and assorted cables and shit.
Here are the relevant ones:

[1] Pro-Digital active 7 pin - doesn't pass a signal, never has

[2] Brian Skalinder's spare Oade active 7 pin - rockin' like dokken

[3] a shitty looking black male RCA > male RCA cable of unknown origin

The inputs of the sound card are (obviously) female RCA. So is the output of the Oade 7 pin. Put a female and female together in Mulholland Drive and you have one of the hottest things in movie history, but this is not so in tape transferring!
Second, I don't want to spend money that I don't have on a new coax cable for one-time-use and subsequent backup.
The Question (phinally): If I shack up the Black Cable of Mystery with the Oade 7 pin and the coax ins of my Waveterminal and it works, should I worry about "signal loss" or anything negative? Or would everything be cool?
Thanks, fellers!
Armen

[zhianosatch]

OK, sweet! I'll rewind and fire up the comp. Tank you.
Reports of dice or no dice to follow.

[zhianosatch]

Looks like dice right now. I had one channel tweak out a few seconds in, but I think that's due to me putting a kindkables interconnect (big ol' connectors and shrink tubing) through the wringer.

[F.O.Bean]

+T armen, you phlow quite well brotha!!!

[zhianosatch]

Why, thank you, Bean.
Schuster helped me determine that the Black Cable of Mystery was some old video cable that was indeed 75 ohms-rated-style, so it's all good in the hood. No problems transferring a'tall.
I also jacked Brian Skalinder's cable-reinforcement idea and constructed some trusses out of stacks of ~16 gauge wire and duct tape. They make my mini > 2 rca adapter look nice and robust!