Perfect device for the job.
How many coax cables can come off an aerial?
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The way in which I read the post by sxturbo, I think that he was agreeing with winston1 since he wrote
"For the cost of it, it's a no brainer really, also saves having to try and get to the aerial to run a 2nd cable."
As a sideline to this discussion, about 20 years I installed a TV distribution system with 8 outlets for a friend in a house about 15 km from the local co-located transmission towers, using a 2-way splitter-amplifier followed by 2 and 4 way splitters to distribute the signal without using more metres of cable than necessary.
(Not all the outlets were used but one or more outlets was placed in almost every room for possible future use and to have outlets for PVRs.)
Ten years ago they moved to a house which was about 5 km closer to those same transmission towers - with a similar antenna and a clear line-of-site in each case.
I installed a similar 8 outlet distribution system but the picture received by the TVs was unwatchable - because the signal was too strong and the picture went over the "digital cliff" - in reverse. (The TV input was "overloaded".)
Obviously, the "boosted" signal was then Too Strong
However, everything worked satisfactorily once the "splitter-amplifier" was replaced with a simple splitter.
(Not all the outlets were used but one or more outlets was placed in almost every room for possible future use and to have outlets for PVRs.)
Ten years ago they moved to a house which was about 5 km closer to those same transmission towers - with a similar antenna and a clear line-of-site in each case.
I installed a similar 8 outlet distribution system but the picture received by the TVs was unwatchable - because the signal was too strong and the picture went over the "digital cliff" - in reverse. (The TV input was "overloaded".)
Obviously, the "boosted" signal was then Too Strong
However, everything worked satisfactorily once the "splitter-amplifier" was replaced with a simple splitter.
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He lied than didn’t he? It is impossible to split anything 2 ways without any losses whether it is an aerial signal or say splitting 5 litres of petrol between 2 cars.
HND in electronics. AMIEE. 25 years plus experience in TV and broadcasting including aerial installations and matching impedances
Excellent, spoilt by the fact Ariel is washing powder. It’s aerial (no upper case letter required).
A large proportion of the signal will be reflected off the mismatch and will be lost. What is left will then be halved. Perhaps less than a quarter of the signal will be available at each TV.
They are not silly, wrong, or ignorant.
Read up on impedance matching and consequences of mismatches.
You are clearly a typical sparks, good at what you do, and think you can also specialised tasks such aerial installs. Leave that to the experts who understand it.
Thank you for an extremely well composed and useful comment.
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No he didn't lie.
There may possibly be incorrect terms used in the original statement or the relaying of it here. There will be losses but those losses also exist in sxturbo's device.
And again yet another pointless comparison with a completely irrelevant subject. What are you trying to suggest with this one? Why are you trying to put petrol in my diesel vehicle?
Yes I agree my latest is stupid, just like yours.
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Indeed he is agreeing with Winston and I have agreed with sxturbo, however as always there is more than one way to do things.
Yeah I think every in agreed that's the way it Could be done.
Another bloody stupid comment.
I know what he means.
sxturbo knows what he means.
Everybody else knows what he means.
That is everbody except one... guess who that stupid one is.
Please stick to the facts without picking on a little spelling mistake, especially one as common as this one.
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