aerials - is it one per room?

[Ray Singh]

I have pretty new house (about 4 years old) the living room has a panel on the wall with TV aerial outlet, FM outlet and two Sat1 and Sat2.

There is similar in the master bedroom too.

I went into the loft to find the wiring to these and can only find a single wire that I have already rigged an aerial to in order to receive tv in hte living room.

Now i want to install a tv in the bedroom and cant find the wiring. Would the builders have wanted one to wire a single aerial to both wall outlets or does this need two aerials?

Also, when i took te wall panel off, the socket marked TV has cable with silver foil and grounding and the FM one has gold coloured foil and grounding. The tv in the living room is using cable with gold foil and wiring.

Any idea what is going on?

[Ray Singh]

Thanks Sleepezy - Yes its the inner mesh and the foil screen.

I have nowhere to take power for the splitter - only a single light up there.

The cables are all up in the loft, its just they are not marked and I am unsure of what FM cable would look like and what Sky or Sat cable would look like. I will connect up a 1.5v battery to the outlet in the bedroom and test which of the cables show 1.5v up in the loft with my multimeter tomorrow.

[Ray Singh]

Presumably the powered splitter would be positioned in an obvious place?

All i have is a whole heap of aerial cables with nothing at the ends. Just cut clean.

[Ray Singh]

The wall outlet panel is like this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quadplexed-Satellite-Aeria...


My only issue is that there are two co-ax cables attached to the back. Where do the sat connections go then?

I just want to use the TV outlet to a second aerial i have in the loft. We live under the Marlborough transmitter, so aerials in lofts are ok.

It was supposed to be an easy job :-(.

R

[Ray Singh]

WindyMills said:

I was looking to install these in my place a while back. IIRC, they were all wired together via some hub; and all 4 sockets were fed by 1 or 2 wires. Again, IIRC, it wasn't a simple coax either. Might be wrong though.

Looks like you are right - the amazon ad says that these must be used with a splitter.

Anyway - good news from my point of view. I shorted the cable together using a paperclip (thanks for this suggestion) and them took my meter up in the loft. Found the cable and connected to the aerial. Remembered to turn it through 90 degrees as its an old analouge job and hey presto!

The only issue now is that I live under the Marlborough transmitter, but want to watch tv channels (quest - wheeler dealers) on the Hannington Transmitter. Time to call the experts - me thinks!

Thanks for your help - I love this community!

[Ray Singh]

Good idea - I might give this a go.....

Problem is that the tv is currently picking up "West" for channels 1 through 5 and then "South" - which i think is Hannington for the rest.....

I will see how i get on.

[Ray Singh]

Thanks Jet - one of my TVs looks like it does have a setting that will send 5v up the co-ax. I will look into it.

I had a local aerial chap come out today. He said he could help - but when i asked him what sort of techniques he would use - amplifiers, filters, aerial on outside of property etc, he flipped out.....

He just didnt want to tell me and got really nasty.

I will live with the tv for now and look into Jet's suggestion tomorrow.

[Ray Singh]

He did apologise as he left and made excuses that he was a grumpy old man....

He also said that the aerial i had was rubbish.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/labgear-tv-aerial-high-g...

Im worried that he will suggest all sorts of things and con me.