TV aerial cable confusion

retireddad

Bought a TV home for Christmas.
Our Antenna outlet on wall has female socket(needing male pin)
But back of TV too seems to need Male pin.
Aerial cable we got have female on one side and male pin on other side.
How to tackle this?

dacouch

Had the same problem on xmas eve, popped down the local everything shop and got a male to female cable for 99p.

If you have your old cables and a digital decoder or vcr or dvd you may be able to run a cable from the aerial socket to the digital decoder and from there to the tv

retireddad

dacouch wrote: »

Had the same problem on xmas eve, popped down the local everything shop and got a male to female cable for 99p.

If you have your old cables and a digital decoder or vcr or dvd you may be able to run a cable from the aerial socket to the digital decoder and from there to the tv

Thanks
But buying a male to female cable may not solve the problem.If I use the new cable on wall socket,I still end up with female end of the cable.
Also this TV has inbuilt freeview box and dvd hence don't need any other boxes with it with spare input/output points

Steve059

You need a male-to-male cable. This is the usual configuration for what is known as an aerial flylead.

[Deleted User]

Hi;

so you have this,



but you need this,



or cut the female end off and fit one of these,



though usually the extension cable is very flimsy when cut into, so you might be as well to get a length of coax, 2 of the above and make up your own cable.

Look here to see how to fit connector.

ValHaller

retireddad wrote: »

Aerial cable we got have female on one side and male pin on other side.
How to tackle this?

The cable you have is for a video recorder. Tackle it by buying a male to male fly lead as suggested.

googler

ValHaller wrote: »

The cable you have is for a video recorder. Tackle it by buying a male to male fly lead as suggested.

This. the cables you have are intended to connect VCRs and DVD Recorders to TVs.

M-M leads are readily available at high street stores, many of which will be open today ...