I have just connected my upstairs television to the an aerial in the loft and I'm getting a terrible picture. I am using the brown coaxial cable to do this. The tv downstairs uses an aerial on the roof. Do you think if I use proper digital coaxial with a gold f joint I will get a better picture when linking to the aerial in the loft, or do I need to get a man in to connect it to the roof aerial.
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breezer
Roof aerial is there because loft aerial gets poor signal
doesn't look like .
this does it?
why cant you T into the roof cable (may need a signal amp, but try it and see
doesn't look like .
why cant you T into the roof cable (may need a signal amp, but try it and see
whats a signal amp? How much are they?
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breezer
it amplifies the signal, try google
Can you connect two seperate pices of coaxial to the one aerial?
You can indeed connect two cables to one aerial. if you look in maplin or rs you can buy a y splitter and the cable ends for coppers.
Would a satellite dish (sky dish) recieve better reception than a good aerial on the roof. Would the satellite dish receive freeview.
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breezer
no, because as you saids.waring3578 said:
s.waring3578 said:
its SKY,
Well would it recieve a better reception for normal programs?
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breezer
hard to say really, no honest it is.
In theory it is supposed to be better, but if anything gets into line of site between the dish and satelite its a teriible signal, we had scaffholiding in the way for a couple of weeks.
call sky and find out
In theory it is supposed to be better, but if anything gets into line of site between the dish and satelite its a teriible signal, we had scaffholiding in the way for a couple of weeks.
call sky and find out
s.waring3578 said:
i think he means to use a satellite dish for recieving tv from terrestrial transmitters, back down on earth!breezer said:
One flaw with this is that satellites require line of sight to operate - this works fine when you are pointing at something in space, but you're going to need a pretty damn tall mast to mount that dish on for terrestrial signals, unless you live next door to the transmitter!
Well even though my Dad had sky for a few months, he has since cancelled subscription to sky and he still recieves channels 1 to 5 with a clear picture. Basically I am trying to find a way round getting a reception for my tv upstairs without getting up on the roof and connecting cable to aerial. My downstairs tele has a good picture, but the upstairs tele runs from a aerial in the loft which is crap reception.
Any ideas.
Any ideas.
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breezer
as i said before, tap into the aerial on the roof cable, you may need a signal amp. i never mentioned going on the roof did i?
Trouble is that these need to be plugged in and because my tele is wall mounted in my bedroom there are no sockets close to the tv.
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