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Old 15-10-2011, 09:31   #16
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Re: How Do I Install a TV Aerial in a New Build House?

The sat cables will need a higher grade of coax than is necessary for terrestrial tv so your builder may well have saved himself a few bob by not installing them. Also, a sat cable should ideally go in one single run all the way from the dish to the faceplate with no extra joins in the loft, which would be another good reason for not installing any cable at all until you decide you want a dish.

You could just unscrew the plate and see what's behind it though ...
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Re: How Do I Install a TV Aerial in a New Build House?

I've taken the faceplate off and there is a Labgear PSW241 box that has a Triplexed input and a SAT2 input.

How does the Triplexed input work? I know it means that a single cable feeds the TV, FM/DAB and SAT outputs but does anyone know how it's wired internally? I'm asking because I've used a multimeter to check where the inputs go to and I can only find a short between the input and the SAT output. I can't work out if the links to the FM and TV outputs are working. How would I go about testing this?
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Re: How Do I Install a TV Aerial in a New Build House?

Do you have a handy terrestrial aerial you could attach to the relevant coax in the loft? If so, do that, then attach a tv to the tv socket downstairs and see if it picks anything up. If you have an FM receiver with a coax input then do likewise with the FM socket. The same TV aerial in the loft will be adequate for this.
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Re: How Do I Install a TV Aerial in a New Build House?

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Also, I can't see extra cables for the SAT1 and SAT2 connectors. Are they usually installed or left until needed?
Left until needed, SKY installers, like VM won't go into a loft. If you want SKY and don't want them drilling through your wall, get them to push the cables into the loft and connect up to your existing cables.
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Hi I have been reading your replies to installing TV Aerials in a new house.......
I would like to ask a question I f I can
I have just moved to a 1960's house with one tv aerial socket in the living room.I would like to put tv 's in the 3 bedrooms for the children but have no sockets...
Can I tap into the one cable coming in which is in the loft......
Do I also have to have Aerial sockets in the walls. Can I have the cables just coming through the floorboards in the corners where I want the tv's.......or should I just get a man who knows what he is doing,,
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Re: How Do I Install a TV Aerial in a New Build House?

Hi Shellyo and welcome to the cable forum.
You will get best results by adding a booster amplifier in the loft which will enable a separate output for each TV required. Basically you run the cable from the aerial into the amplifier then take a separate cable to each room from there. They don't have to go to sockets but can run as you say from under the floorboards to the TVs.

You just have to make sure you buy an amplfier with enough output sockets.
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