tv aerials

[funkyjane]

can you buy a tv aerals,and run two tv on it

[Buenchico]

Most households probably have a TV in the living room, plus one in each of the kids' bedrooms and possibly several other TVs as well. Take a look at the rooftops. You'll almost never see a house with two TV aerials on it. That's because all of those TVs are using a single aerial.

Splitting the signal between two (or more) TV sets does lead to a loss of signal strength but it's not as great as you might think. (You don't simply get a half-strength signal down each cable. The actual signal strength along each cable is only slightly less than down a single cable. It's all to do with logarithms!).

A good quality aerial, with good quality cabling, can usually feed two or three TVs without the need for additional amplification.

Chris

[AlBags]

It's not about logarithms .. that's a mathematicians answer. It's about Gain ... DbA ... and signal quality versus noise.
It's especially important with digital signals.
You should use a always distribution amplifier or active splitter when splitting signals, otherwise you will likely not receive all the Digital MUX's (channel packets)

[ChuckFickens]

LOL!!

Yes most decent TV aerials can quite comfortably run 2 TV's off them perfectly well with a simple splitter.

(remind me again, what sort of scale are gain, and DbA measured in?)

[craft1948]

Not being technical I'll just say yes.......

[AlBags]

That's boll$cks
Passive splitters are no good now.
Every TV antenna is "decent".
High gain, directional, and Yagi build type are most important now.
Stick to I.T.

[AlBags]

Only exclusion is .. if you live on top of a transmitter.

[Prudie]

You men are very sexy when you argue about technical stuff.

[AlBags]

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[Woody23]

I'd back Chukky in a Harry Hill -type fight anyday!

He's very clever

[AlBags]

A helmet would

[craft1948]

Me too..............he is 6'6"..........

[AlBags]

especially one with a FS1E in the shed.

[AlBags]

6' 6" That's just the neck

[Prudie]

Who's chukky (not the doll presumably?)

[AlBags]

The thing is ...
You amateurs who just do a search on Google for answers on issues like this that you don't know a lot about, do not realise that for most people, it is really important to have a good and properly aligned antenna with decent amplification for digital terrestrial signals. A lot of people live at the moment in what is called a "fringe" area which requires a proper setup. Old 50 ohm downlead, passive splitters, joined-up-with-tape downlead all produce degradation or noise in the signal. You will have problems like have been asked about here before.

[Woody23]

(stifles yawn..) Yeah right.....

[Woody23]

Purdie. I've seen you on here before and you do appear to be quite dim. I was referring earlier to Chuckfickens. And who mentioned a doll?

[AlBags]

That answer was for those who don't spend their time stuck in "Easy Rider" magazine (or FS1E Riders Monthly)

[Prudie]

Well I've seen you on here before too so I'm not going to stoop so low to defend myself to you

Goodnight AlBags xx CF, Chris et al

[AlBags]

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