TV Aerial help!!

stonecoldsteveaustin

Hello all
Does anyone know if I can run 2 TV's off a standard wall mounted aerial socket on the wall?
I have our main TV in the living room pluged into the wall as normal and also have a TV in the kitchen running off an indoor aerial that needs turning every time you change channel. So can the kitchen TV also be pluged into the living room aerial with extension leads of some kind?
Thanks everyone

espresso

Yes but you will most likely need a distribution amplifier as well as an extension lead. See here for an example.

stonecoldsteveaustin

Thanks, but where do you put this?

espresso

Between the "standard wall mounted aerial socket on the wall" and the TV sets.

bigdic

That plugs into the wall socket, run a wire from the wall outlet into that then 1 cable to each of your tv's.

The pic shows a 1 way amplifier (1 in - 1 out) you would need the 2 way (1 in from the wall - 2 out to your tvs.)

I use the same model and it works well, you can pick up everything you need from B&Q,

stonecoldsteveaustin

Many thanks

Donnie

I just use a signal splitter that cost me £1.50. An example is the AP00090 Deluxe UHF Y splitter on this page ; http://www.!!!!!!.uk/accs/page15a.htm

stonecoldsteveaustin

Nice one, thanks

Sparky67

I'm not an expert, but I think you only need the plug in signal booster if your signal is weak. If it's ok you just need the splitter so you can plug in two aerial leads to the same socket (same principle as a plug adapter so you can plug in more than one appliance). You would need to physically run a cable from the aerial point to the other set though.

If thats difficult, you can use a wireless transmitter - Aldi currently have them for £20 and this will transmit whatever from your first set (tv, dvd, satellite etc) to your second set. No idea how good the result is because just after I bought mine, the second TV set blew up!!

espresso

Sparky67 wrote:

I'm not an expert, but I think you only need the plug in signal booster if your signal is weak.

Or turning this on it's head, you could say that a passive splitter will only work if you have a strong signal.

Inserting the splitter attenuates the original signal and perhaps only 35-40% goes to each TV. It will work if you have plenty signal to start with but the extra length of co-ax to the second set will also attenuate the signal.

Zahc

What the coffee man says. BUT if you have a rubbish signal, then a booster will boost the signal noise as well, often resulting in a worse picture. Nothing's ever easy....

Zahc