TV distribution about the house

[tebreak]

I've got the one aerial up but thinking of having 2 tellys in the house.
I don't want to put splitters in or fit more cable, Will I have to put another aerial up, or can I use a wireless video sender?

 

[Sam Gangee]

The correct method would be to fit a masthead amplifier with 2 or more outputs and cable it to as many TVs as you want. See sketch:
http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/amps.htm#masthead

 

[tebreak]

was hoping to avoid doing that but thanks for the advice.

 

[Sam Gangee]

Another way - if it's more convenient - is to "daisychain" Freeview receivers.

Aerial --> Freeview --> Freeview

One of these could be out of the way and attached to a videosender.

 

[ChrisFrost]

Video senders only work with the output of a tuner (Freeview box / recorder / satellite box etc). They won't take the raw aerial signal and retransmit it if that's what you're thinking.

As Sam Gangee suggested, a Freeview box + a TV sender will work, though the quality can be a bit iffy at times. A coax cable will give a better image.

Incidentally, I'm going to do a job on Saturday to take out a TV sender and install a proper distribution system instead. The customer bought a cheap'ish 2.4GHz sender a while a go but is fed up with the interference from the microwave and the cordless phones.

A second aerial is an option.I think a house with multiple aerials looks ugly but each to their own.

 

[Sam Gangee]

Is it even legal to have more than one external aerial on a house?
One of my neighbours has FIVE aerials stuck around his house. I don't know whether he specifically asked for them or whether he got stitched up by a cowboy. The amusing thing is that some are low-gain "contract" aerials and some are wideband "high gain" Yagis. Why anyone would want a monster Yagi, if a "contract" will do the job, is beyond my comprehension!

They all point in the same direction but the one on the front corner of the house points through the roof.

 

[ChrisFrost]

Lol..some houses do look like Christmas trees. My two favourites are the mast with aerials so close they're almost touching, and the DIY aerial install: a huge high gain on a spindly little bracket and invariably mounted on the eves because the erstwhile owner hasn't the ladders or the bottle to get on the roof.