jon_boy_uk
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Hi all - I've got a bit of a headscratcher here....
I'm in a newbuild house and as with many, no aerial is provided, but there is a coiled cable in the loft and an aerial point in the lounge ready to be wired.
I bought a high gain aerial (in the loft not on the roof) and installed it, pointed it where it needed to go.
To start, I thought I'd just use the cable the aerial was bundled with, and to connect it directly into a TV in the loft so I could ensure the reception was okay. That worked fine. Then I unhooked the temporary cable, wired in the one that was coiled in the roof, connected a cable from the lounge wall terminal into the same TV, but this time reception. I tried to retune it. Nothing. Not even a sniff if reception (ie the channel scan takes about 20 seconds with no results).
My immediate thought was that the cable built into the house was faulty, or maybe not connected properly. So in the roof, on one end of the cable I connected the copper sheathing to the central core so I could create a loop, popped off the lounge faceplate and used a multimeter to test the continuity, which inevitably was perfect meaning the cable from the loft to the lounge is fine.
What on earth is going on? :-(
I'm in a newbuild house and as with many, no aerial is provided, but there is a coiled cable in the loft and an aerial point in the lounge ready to be wired.
I bought a high gain aerial (in the loft not on the roof) and installed it, pointed it where it needed to go.
To start, I thought I'd just use the cable the aerial was bundled with, and to connect it directly into a TV in the loft so I could ensure the reception was okay. That worked fine. Then I unhooked the temporary cable, wired in the one that was coiled in the roof, connected a cable from the lounge wall terminal into the same TV, but this time reception. I tried to retune it. Nothing. Not even a sniff if reception (ie the channel scan takes about 20 seconds with no results).
My immediate thought was that the cable built into the house was faulty, or maybe not connected properly. So in the roof, on one end of the cable I connected the copper sheathing to the central core so I could create a loop, popped off the lounge faceplate and used a multimeter to test the continuity, which inevitably was perfect meaning the cable from the loft to the lounge is fine.
What on earth is going on? :-(