My daughter has recently moved houses. The property is well decorated, however there are no connections for the TV aerial. Is there anyway to bring leads from the roof into the lower floors without digging out for the cable or having ugly cables draped over the walls? or is there an alternative?
If in a strong signal can be pulled in "bunny ears"or other indoor aerial. Lots of guides out there on what channels are available and where to place indoor aerials
Else this is a piece of string question Run cables down outside, come in below floor level [through an air brick]) run cabling UNDER floorboards (DO NOT run cables under carpet but on top of floorboards) ?
Run cabling around edge of room (between carpet and skirting)?
Run cable on top of skirting ?
Run cable in conduit on top of skirting?
down the walls outside?
Or, completely invisible, fish it down the wall cavity. If it's not filled with insulation.
Make use of a disused Chimney?
or having ugly cables draped over the walls? or is there an
Install neat conduit outside or maybe a fake drain pipe?
Paint the cable the same colour as the brick?
Cable tie to the wall side of a drainpipe
Malcolm
Why?
Bill
Ohh yes I remember that! I did a few such things actually.
Bill
Carpets get walked on so cable underneath gets frayed leading to glitchy reception . May also be aesthetically displeasing (showing a bump [if the carpet isn't one of those two feet{
Indoor aerials for tv now its digital is a bit of a nightmare as the effect of ghosting on digital signals simply makes the owhole multiplex drop out.
Brian
And don't even *think* about using one of those little whip aerials that they supply with USB TV decoder devices. I tried mine in my laptop a few hundred yards from Oxford transmitter, when I happened to be driving past, and no muxes could be detected - and yes, the aerial was *outside* the car!
If a tuner can pick up muxes with a poor roof-mounted aerial at fifty miles over hilly terrain but a whip aerial in the same tuner a few hundred yards from the transmitter can't see anything, the aerial must be *really* bad :-)
most energy from a high power transmitter is sent out a few degrees below the horizontal. There will be very little close to the mast.
Aerial in the attic? Could work well - or not! If it does work, you'd then need to think about the route through the house. Cables can sometimes be concealed quite effectively in corners.
I once met someone who lived really close to the Redruth transmitter in west Cornwall, probably within a quarter of a mile. Their reception was 'difficult' I think they said.
In article , charles scribeth thus
Yes in fact Bill Wright of this parish once rigged some monitoring aerials up at the Emley Moor mast that pointed up to the top of the tower!.
That transmitter power costs to much to waste heating the ground locally!....
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