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Nick Finnigan
 
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John wrote:
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John wrote:

My mum has just got a freeview TV for her bedroom and the aerial signal
is not good enough from the aerial in the loft, I presume because of the
signal not passing through the concrete tiles very well, on her old
analogue TV the picture was never up to much either! She has another
aerial (on the chimney stack outside) that is connected to her downstairs
set up, which includes a freeview STB, so I know this aerial signal is
good enough. The outside aerial cable is on the roof and then down the
wall and enters the house above her front door. Where the cable goes
down the wall this is directly outside her bedroom window, so I was
thinking of cutting the cable and putting a splitter in and running a new
piece of coax in through the window frame corner. Can you get waterproof
splitters any where or will I have to get a suitable box and put an
internal splitter in there. I have look at Screwfix, Maplins and RS but
cannot seem to find anything suitable.


I briefly tried those sorts of bodges, and then went for the far superior
option of moving the aerial outside.



The aerial I want to use IS outside, I just want to break into the cable and
have it supplying two TV sets.


You wrote that there was one inside aerial and one outside; that is
what I had as well. Splitting the outside aerial outside the house was a
bodge. Moving the inside aerial to be outside and feeding one TV off
each aerial was far superior, and in my case required no extra hardware.