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Originally Posted by Tower Guy
When combining antennas aimed in wildly different directions the lengths of the cable to the backwards splitter doesn't matter.
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True if the antennas are both strongly directional. Some "directional" antennas can still pick up reflected signals at an angle, though, and can thus carry the same signal into the combiner. If these are out of phase you can lose some of the signal strength. I tend to think it's good practice to keep the cable runs the same length if reasonably possible.
As for the OP's last question, a "combiner" is basically a splitter used "backward" -- instead of having one signal split into two coax runs, you have two different antenna inputs combining to form one.