Ping Bill Wright

go to Maplins, buy a 6dB attenuator, plug it into the feed to any existing set. If you still get good results then it should be OK to split, if not replace the 4 outlet amplifier with a 6 outlet one,

who will need his (or her) own tv licence.

In message , charles writes

Shush! Might be few weeks only anyway.

very likely actually with a proper resistive splitter.

Or even without..

Does that apply to what you'd call a 'paying guest' who shares all the house facilities with the family?

As I remember the rules it applied to anyone who wasn't "family".

Adopt them?

Actually, rather than buying an attenuator, then having to go out and buy a splitter, why not just by a splitter and see what happens?

A passive splitter of the inductive kind should not be affected if no set is connected to the other output, as far as I can recall. Modern sets are pretty good and in the end its the signal quality that matters, not so much the strength on digital sources. Brian

Not as far as I know if you share the tv, but it might if they have a private room with thier own tv in it. Brian

There was some case a while back along the lines of a Foster carer of a young youth was taken to court over this issue as they had their own tv. I do not know what the age limits are either, but It sounds a bit mean to me. Brian

I always found the inductive ones better than the resistive ones myself. Brian

Just fit a splitter on the shortest existing feed.

CPC:

AP00090 (uses belling plugs) AP02109 (uses f plugs) AP02104 (uses f plugs)

Given that you have an amp with gain to each output it's highly unlikely the 4dB loss will make any difference.

Bill

charles put finger to keyboard:

Lodgers who rent a bedroom and share the rest of the house are covered by the main TV licence. (This would also apply to a group of friends renting a property together.)

Tenants who have exclusive access to their own domain would need a separate TV licence.

It is important when taking a lodger to ensure they don't put a lock on their bedroom door.

ISTR in a posh house, servants who lived in were covered by the house licence. The gardener living in the gate house, not. ;-)

Unfortunately, the nearest cable is also the longest. Probably about

Ordering from CPC invites another deluge of catalogues:-)

Thanks.

I assumed you would run the new cable back to a point near the amp.

Bill

Or get a lodger who is over 75 and claim your free license.

No good having Brian as a lodger as he only gets a 50% discount to watch nothing.

Not impossible but a job for a younger person. Much easier before the loft insulation was topped up.

Splitters look to be cheap enough to buy and try.

I think you will find that it is only if you live in self contained accommodation that you need a separate licence - so I find the foster child story very hard to believe.