Best Coaxial Aerial Cable?

[image165]

Hi,

I have a Freeview digital tuner box. I've noticed that my current coaxial aerial cables are VERY sensitive to movement. Simply by tapping the cable with my finger, a perfect Freeview picture can turn into choppy, electronic garbage.

So, what I'd like to know is, what's the best type of aerial cable? Where can I buy it?

[bobcar]

Sounds like you've got a fault rather than a bad cable type. Have you check the coax plug and socket for a firm and sound connection, maybe even replace the plug. Its also possible that the cable has a broken core near where you are moving it .

[oxygenuk]

i have the model before this http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...clickfrom=name and its great

[tykent]

I use CT100 for all my system. SKY, DAB, FM, TV
You can buy it here.

[image165]

CT100 cable. I see. Is there a more accessible high-street chain of shops that you can buy it from?

[tykent]

Some of the larger B&Q stores stock it. It will be marked as digital satallite cable or such like.

[hornydragon]

Or get a QED TTV cable best on the block:http://www.qed.co.uk/cables/av/qunex_br_rge.html

OR: http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tv...ml?id=IGuG2i5d

[pemberto]

I had http://www.custom-cable.co.uk/ make my cables up based on Van den Hul VideoLink and Insert Audio connectors. Cost wise would be the same region as QED.

[JH4]

Just make sure you use double screened coax aerial cable. Any aerial rigger will supply it. It has both braid and metal screens, and works fine. Also use metal aerial plugs and sockets not the metal/plastic type, which are cheap and nasty and don't provide the best screening.
Hope this helps.

[scussy]

at the moment i have NTL (4 boxes) wired around the house,
i want to change to SKY + and multiroom,
can they use the old NTL cable what is run or will the SKY intstaller use a different cable,the loft room i have is hard to get cables into now it's been insalated and boaded out,

[Barcoing Mad]

CT125 has lower loss than CT100. Both are good cables. If you go to an RF/microwave cable manufacturer's or supplier's website (e.g. rswww.com), the attenuation is usually quoted in dB/100m over a range of frequencies and comparisons can be readily made. Connections need some care, particularly the solder free variety. (There are no advantages in going the oxygen-free-copper hifi BS route).

[hornydragon]

Ntl should have used CT100/125 coax which is fine for a sky feed

But you can't buy plugs to fit CT125.

[IanW]

Guys,

Go VERY careful on this one, you could be wasting money (although not always).

Most houses are fitted with VERY low standard coax. Putting a high quality QED (or equivilant) patch lead between the wall and your visual delight would be like using bell wire terminated with QED XT (£20 per metre) fly leads as speaker wire. Like all things a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, if you want the best possible RF picture, the first thing that you need to ensure is that what is in the wall is as good as possible. Have a look at my gear, I take this sort of stuff VERY seriously. When we moved into our new house almost two years ago, the first thing that we did was run new high quality RF cables to the outlets.

Ian.

[scussy]

thanks for the feed back,