[mienta]

Hi,

I have just split the signal from my aerial in the loft. Have drilled two holes and put the wire outside the house.

When I plug the wire straight to the freeview box it works fine on both TVs but when I want to plug the wires into the sockets and then sockets to the TVs it completly dissaperas on both TVs

There are just cheap simple sockets like this one
Socket on eBay

Any ideas anyone?

THX

[Sonic67]

Any kinks or a loose bit of braid anywhere?

[mienta]

Thanls for reply,

No it does not,

I have also tried on two different sockets and two different leads socket-freeview box.

Will give you the detailed description how did I do it.

Aerial, pretty good quality, I think it was 48 elements.

Cablke goes from the aerial to the splitter like this one:

splitter

then it splits into two cables one about 7m second to 10m

then if I connect the wire to the male connector and straight to the freview box then both TVs work perfect

if I want to connect them to female socket and then male - male lead to the box it doesnt work at all...

[Sonic67]

Socket isn't a FM/UHF socket is it?

One socket TV and the other radio?

I have a TV aerial and FM aerial feeding into a cable and then split at each room.

[Sonic67]

Re read your post and seen the splitter. It could be faulty or it could be doing something. I'm not totally familiar with what it does.

[mienta]

No, it is a standart TV socket...

[Adrian_F]

Have you tested the flyleads on any other equipment to see whether they are faulty or not ?

[Gavtech]

You need an active splitter - not a passive type like this.

Every connection, every plug and socket introduces a loss... and a splitter halves the signal , and some.

All those losses are adding up to take your signal level to below the critical threshold of receivablity.

An active splitter is designed to amplify the signal to compensate for the losses caused by its insertion.