TV Aerial help!

Finchy2018

Now I have hot water I am turning my attention to the living room tv. I lived on a boat for years so didn't have access to anything other than catch up and we never worked out how to get the aerial to work when we rented.

There is an aerial upstairs which i can plug into my bedroom telly and it's fine and dandy.

Living room there is a box on one wall which to me looks like one you'd put the cable into and attach to telly but no matter what I do the cable won't fit. There is also a wire on the other side of the room that splits to two but I think this is for sky. Again, I can't get it to attach to a coaxial cable or similar.

I have looked online and I just can't find any simple instructions on what I need to look for and what I need to do or do I need to run the aerial down the stairs instead? Any help would be much appreciated

another_casualty

Mmm.. I wonder if it's a male/ female socket issue . If you have one of those cables that goes from the tv- video or free view box for example , one end should go into the aerial socket and the other into your set top box . Alternatively, you can buy aerial sockets for about 99p on amazon. Might be worth typing in aerial sockets / cables on amazon ..

Finchy2018

I've got every combination cable possible, I think I'm right to discount the wires that split on the one wall (could be wrong, the previous owner had sky) I've tried all the combinations into the wall with no luck, although on closer inspection (you have to really look down the hole) the plastic that surrounds the skinny wire seems warped.

If I get a new aerial socket will it be a simple switch?

baza52

post a picture of the socket and you will get more help as to what it is

Rodders53

Attach a picture of this socket and the connector you're trying to plug into it. That may help us understand the issue better?

IF it's a normal TV wallplate then it's simple enough to change with fair d-i-y skills. A shielded one is recommended (or lose the plate altogether and use a socket/plug and cable joiner)... https://www.aerialsandtv.com/cableandleads.html#SurfacePlates

$ky shotgun cable has F-connector plugs on the end and - although you can buy F- to TV plug adapters - they won't work for terrestrial TV reception. So coil them up out of the way and forget them.

Finchy2018

Here is what I hope I am right in thinking is the aerial socket


Here is the cable I have, with a little adaptor too



and here is what I suspect are the Sky cables, which I don't think mix with a BT box

baza52

the flylead you have should fit. see if the socket has an abstruction in it stopping you from plugging it in.
bottom pics are of 2 satellite feeds or f connectors

Finchy2018

oh I feel stupid, there was a huge chunk of paint in there! Scanning the channels to see if it picks anything up now!

Rodders53

Finchy2018 wrote: »

oh I feel stupid, there was a huge chunk of paint in there! Scanning the channels to see if it picks anything up now!

Yep.. No need to feel daft though... how did that much paint get in there?
Let us know it works OK. :j

BTW you are correct about pic 3 that's satellite shotgun cable. :T

Finchy2018

Thank you! It does! I think the decorators may have got the paint in there; it works! No itv or channel 4, but that could be down to the weather? They worked upstairs but I haven't had a chance to check as I had to go out an buy a new shower screen, head and hose (home ownership is fun right? Because our fence has blown down now too!)

stator

Could be crap cable or crap connectors.


But if your house has multiple points then it probably has a splitter /amplifier somewhere. Find that and make sure it's a powered amplifier to make sure you get a good signal in all rooms