Repairing external tv aerial cable

creationdub

Hi everyone

I've moved into a new house and noticed that one of the aerial cables down the side of the house has been cut through.

Can I repair it, or do I need to get someone out to run a new cable?

Your help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

creationdub

DoaM

Who knows?

How handy are you with running a new cable and making connections to an aerial and an aerial socket?

How comfortable are you on a roof/up a ladder?

ballyblack

One of these perhaps but might not be weather proof

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TV-Aerial-Satellite-Coax-Coaxial-Cable-Line-Coupler-Joiner/312217838515?hash=item48b1a223b3:g:h6MAAOSwK7xbdtnn

coffeehound

If the rain has got into the ends, it would be best to cut it back to where it is clean and dry if possible.

datostar

ballyblack wrote: »

One of these perhaps but might not be weather proof

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TV-Aerial-Satellite-Coax-Coaxial-Cable-Line-Coupler-Joiner/312217838515?hash=item48b1a223b3:g:h6MAAOSwK7xbdtnn

The self-amalgamating tape as used by satellite installers would weatherproof it.

E.g.:-
https://www.screwfix.com/p/self-amalgamating-rubber-tape-black-3m-x-25mm/2115v. for £2.49. Also available at Amazon etc.

creationdub

I'm okay with being up a ladder, not okay with being on the roof though.

I think I'd be okay with doing something to repair the two bits of cable if I knew what to do.

Belenus

creationdub wrote: »

..I've moved into a new house and noticed that one of the aerial cables down the side of the house has been cut through.

Can I repair it, or do I need to get someone out to run a new cable?

You say one of the aerial cables.

Is there another working cable that you can use?

It might be easier to use a splitter/amplifier on that cable to feed more than one device. Repairing a cable is possible but a repair connector can degrade the signal somewhat.

What devices you want to have in the house and what cables are already in place?

Terrestrial TV? Satellite TV? Both?

creationdub

So, I've got up a ladder and had a poke around, been in the loft etc.

There are 3 bedrooms at the back of the house that all have a TV aerial cable entering from outside.

There are 2 cables that are right next to each other - one of which is cut - upon closer inspection, the wire that is cut is not even the one that feeds the room where I have now put a TV into... so as far as I can see, the wire that enters the room I now have the TV in is fine. But when I plug the aerial cable into it and the TV and do a scan - it finds nothing.

I went into the loft, there is a amplifier box which has the 1 input (aerial on roof) plugged into it, and then the output plugs - which have 3 back wires plugged into it (from what I can tell, all the 3 TV aerial wires at the back of the house are black), and 1 white cable plugged into it – I'm assuming that this is the aerial socket in the lounge (which works, although there is no wire outside the property that feeds this?).

Is there a way that I can test the TV aerial socket in the room I need it in has any signal getting to it?

Sorry this is all so confusing and convoluted, I'm quite obviously out of my depth...

creationdub

Oh, I have virgin downstairs, but just want Freeview or something in the room upstairs...

DoaM

Are you sure it is an amplifier? Does it have a power supply to it?

It's possible that one of the outputs has stopped working.

Obvious question ... you're connecting a Freeview TV rather than a Freesat TV? (Stranger things have happened).

creationdub

Yes, it says amplifier on it, and there is a power supply to it.

Its just a Sony Bravia TV - KDL-32WE613... I thought I'd plug it in, whack an aerial into it, scan the hell out of it, and hey presto! I'd have Freeview... not so.

Maybe I switch the plugs about a bit on the amplifier and see if it makes a difference?