Has anyone tried feeding an aerial amp into an aerial amp? Does it cause noise probs?
I have 1 aerial skt in the house, by the tv. I can cut that in the loft and feed it into an amp, then dis it to other rooms, no prob, cept I need 3 feeds by the tv. I could -
Any info gratefully received.
Why would you need 3 outlets by one TV ! You can add a distribution amp to overcome cable losses and to provide more outlets. If you want to, you can use a VHF dipole which is perfect for 88-108 and DAB, then plug that in to the amp in the loft with the TV aerial. Get one that takes a VHF and UHF input. Then the outputs will be combined VHF and UHF. Split them in the various rooms using a diplexer between tuners/stereos/DAB and the TV equipment. Very easy to do. I have one aerial for 88-108MHz and a TV aerial. That provides coverage of 88-108MHz, DAB and UHF TV. Two cables are fed in to a distribution amp. Various cables are run to different rooms. The longest cable is 60ft, so over half the signal is lost. At the end of it I have a preamp. One cable to the TV, one to a DAB radio and another to a normal radio. It works perfectly well. No signal overload or noise. I get DAB from 60miles away on one multiplex in good weather. No problems with the nearest TV transmitter 25miles away. Splitters are not recommended unless you have a very strong signal as they attenuate the signal badly. 3dB is half gone, 6dB is going to leave a quarter. Put them in series and you might as well unplug the aerial.
Cheers Roger, yes 3, tv, stereo and 1 for a toy tv/picture frame. I'll prolly try an amp in the loft then a 3-way splitter.
Right option. Put the amp as near the aerial as is convenient.
NT
Right option. Put the amp as near the aerial as is convenient.
NT
Thanks for that.
distribution amplifier One input lots of outputs, and modest gain only.
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