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Originally Posted by yeoldgreat1
Thanks, so I'll buy a number of TV aerial connectors from the hardware shop near me. There seem to be 6 cables and 5 TV points in the house (3 bedrooms, 2 in the living room). I suppose working out which cable goes to which socket will be a bit of a pain. The only other problem is that if I did want to use an amplifier, there is no power in the loft so I'd have to try and run a wire up there.
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1. Finding which socket is which: connect a battery to each socket in turn then up in the loft, check for voltage on each cable - best with a multimeter. Alternative, connect the output from a radio or amplifier speaker to each socket in turn and check with earphones on the cables
2. Power in loft: modern houses generally use dry lined walls which means there is an air gap between the wall and the plasterboard; if you have a bedroom socket below a handy place in the loft, get a length of curtain wire and push it down from the loft between plasterboard and wall - it's not usually too difficult with the socket eased away from the wall to then catch it and pull a drawstring through (you might have to take the socket box off the wall first) then install a spur socket in the loft.