I have recently moved into a new house.
None of the rooms had aerial sockets in but they where cleary in there at some point but it was a bit of a bodge job, you can see little bits of coaxial cable running through the corners of some of the windows. There is also an aerial on the top of the roof with about 5 meters of coaxial cable running from the aerial to the the fascia.
Over the weekend I ran coaxial cable through into the loft then joint it to the existing coaxial cable from the aerial and into a six way splitter and then down into the bedrooms and the lounge so we could watch TV other than just the Sky.
Now I thought it was almost impossible to break an aerial and coaxial cable is pretty simple stuff, obviously I was wrong as none of the TV's where picking up any signal. So I did the obvious thing and took the plug out of the six way amplifier/splitter thing and put it back in again, didn't change a thing so I went up on the roof and checked all the connections to the aerial and everything seemed fine with the aerial and the existing coaxial cable.
This is the point where I'm at now, I thought this would be an easy job but it seems to be really dragging so I thought I'd ask a few questions here.
Could it be possible that the amplifier/splitter thing I've bought is broken?
Could the aerial just be broken? (can't see it myself it looks fine and well it's only an earial)
I think I will now go and buy a signal tester meter and plug that in and see what it says, I can't see how I've made any mistake doing the wiring as it's all very simple.
Starting to get annoying as I can't really see anything that could really be wrong.
Sorry for the essay.... hope someone can help and I'll report back with my findings from the strength meter tomorrow.
None of the rooms had aerial sockets in but they where cleary in there at some point but it was a bit of a bodge job, you can see little bits of coaxial cable running through the corners of some of the windows. There is also an aerial on the top of the roof with about 5 meters of coaxial cable running from the aerial to the the fascia.
Over the weekend I ran coaxial cable through into the loft then joint it to the existing coaxial cable from the aerial and into a six way splitter and then down into the bedrooms and the lounge so we could watch TV other than just the Sky.
Now I thought it was almost impossible to break an aerial and coaxial cable is pretty simple stuff, obviously I was wrong as none of the TV's where picking up any signal. So I did the obvious thing and took the plug out of the six way amplifier/splitter thing and put it back in again, didn't change a thing so I went up on the roof and checked all the connections to the aerial and everything seemed fine with the aerial and the existing coaxial cable.
This is the point where I'm at now, I thought this would be an easy job but it seems to be really dragging so I thought I'd ask a few questions here.
Could it be possible that the amplifier/splitter thing I've bought is broken?
Could the aerial just be broken? (can't see it myself it looks fine and well it's only an earial)
I think I will now go and buy a signal tester meter and plug that in and see what it says, I can't see how I've made any mistake doing the wiring as it's all very simple.
Starting to get annoying as I can't really see anything that could really be wrong.
Sorry for the essay.... hope someone can help and I'll report back with my findings from the strength meter tomorrow.