4 bedroom TV's on one aerial ??

[utterlydiy]

I have a TV in each of our four bedrooms and one aerial in the loft.

I did have a six way booster but this has failed twice. Do I have to use a booster or can I do it another way, to use this aerial with four TV's. The area I'm in has a very good signal for various channels (8 in total).

My main TV downstairs has its own outside aerial.

 

[big-all]

my set up ariel in attic triple booster in bedroom below [2beds and downstairs]downstairs setup into a second single booster then looped via digibox vidio1 then 2 then distributed unboosted to front room kitchen beds 1 2 and3
then a further booster the 40ft to my workshop
all the boosters are in excess of10 years and never turned off [all labgear from argos or index]

picture does start to suffer if you use cheap coax or distance to great
also avoid arial cable near mains cable

 

[Gasman1015]

Can't you find something better to do in bed..

 

[Steve]

What are these 8 channels you can recieve then?

 

[johnny_t]

You could just distribute the signal using simple passive splitters (I think you will need to use 3 x 2-way splitter, as I have never seen a 4-way). The signal is going to be slightly less than a quarter of the original at each TV but given that you live in a strong signal area this might be strong enough.

The only way that you will know whether it is strong enough or not is to try it and see.

 

[Diyisfun]

I have never had a booster/distributor fail & like bigall bought from Argos. Only ever bought 2 one for each house & leave permantly on. Maybe you are just unlucky

 

[Diyisfun]

I have never had a booster/distributor fail & like bigall bought from Argos. Only ever bought 2 one for each house & leave permantly on. Maybe you are just unlucky

 

[johnny_t]

Looks like you've got a multipath problem though

 

[Diyisfun]

Strange that double post, as I hit the submit button twice, get message that says, 'I cant post as I just have', then it posts.

 

[utterlydiy]

What are these 8 channels you can recieve then?

BBC1, BBC2, ITV, CH4, CH5, BBC1 Wales, ITV1 Wales and BBC2 Wales.
I dont bother with S4C (Welsh speaking). I can sometimes pick up BBC1 South West with a reasonable picture.

Like I said, I'm in a good signal area.