Aerial for TV in bedroom

miggiwoo

Have bought a TV for the bedroom and wanted to know the best way to get a decent signal for it.
We have an aerial for the digital TV in the middle room with it coming down the back of the house and our bedroom is directly above it so wondered if could use this to join up to the bedroom TV.
Would it weaken the signal or would it be worthwile ?
i believe that we are in a Strong signal area.

Thanks:money:

SailorSam

When i put a tv in one of the bedrooms i just fitted an aerial in the loft, they don't cost a lot in the likes of Wilkies or B&q and it saved cutting into existing cables. I just looked on the roof for the approximate direction to point it then moved it about to fine tune when the Tv was working.

Richie-from-the-Boro

if you decide on a loft ariel, this may do the job

Enterprise_1701C

You don't have to "cut into" the cable, you can install a splitter/booster from the main TV and take a cable back upto your bedroom, just involves drilling a couple of holes in the wall!! It will degrade the signal, everytime you split the signal it does, the is why my OH always puts in a booster when he splits a signal.

coolagarry

I have 4 tv's and used to have 4 aerials in the loft (They only cost about £10 each and less at a car boot sale) Two of them began losing 'groups' of channels and I finally 'bit the bullet' and called in the local aerial guy. He put up an outside aerial and just to prove the point he measured the signal my main tv was getting with the loft aerial (it was 40 something) and with the new aerial (in the high 60 somethings). He took it into the loft and put in a splitter that I used to connect the other tv's. Everything works so much better. Incidentally I live in a good signal area.

I appreciate it is a lot of money - I think about £140 but it was well worth it

miggiwoo

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

You don't have to "cut into" the cable, you can install a splitter/booster from the main TV and take a cable back upto your bedroom, just involves drilling a couple of holes in the wall!! It will degrade the signal, everytime you split the signal it does, the is why my OH always puts in a booster when he splits a signal.

Have used a splitter and all channels work fine on both downstairs and bedroom TV except for BBC1 and BBC2 which are broken up.BBC3 and 4 are both OK.Is it worth trying a booster to see if these channels would improve ?

Thanks

Richie-from-the-Boro

miggiwoo wrote: »

Have used a splitter and all channels work fine on both downstairs and bedroom TV except for BBC1 and BBC2 which are broken up.BBC3 and 4 are both OK.Is it worth trying a booster to see if these channels would improve ?

Thanks

It's worth a try.

ITV / BBC / FTA etc are usually on the same transponder, if all had gone that would suggest there is a problem with a particular frequency. In your case only selective channels are missing so its certainly down to signal / and / or / cabling.

Often you will find one or more transponders have much weaker signal levels than other. This is because the signal loss at that particular frequency is at its greatest for your particular

- cabling from CAB to house
- from within the house
- from splitters, especially at certain frequencies
- the degradation of signal over the length of the cable

It could however be a form of VM or local maintenance fault to your particular area.