On Dec 4, 2:36*pm, UCLAN wrote:
GMAN wrote:
Hi, I just moved in to the new house. There is a 4-way coax splitter in
the attic, which has one input and four outputs (to different rooms). I
know that previous owners had a cable (from the cable company). It looks
like the cable was going into the same splitter in the attic, and then
routed to rooms downstairs. I want to use the TV antenna in the attic. I
tried connecting the TV antenna to splitter's input =96 absolutely no
signal is getting to TVs downstairs. I also connected the antenna to each
of splitter=92s outputs (which go to TVs) =96 exactly the same outcome -
not even a change in a static when I plug in the antenna. I bought a TV
signal inline amplifier from RadioShack =96 absolutely no difference..
However, if I drop a 100' coax cable directly from the antenna in the
attic to the TV downstairs (bypassing the splitter and all of the home
cable wiring), the picture is crisp and perfect. Can I run some tests to
ensure cable continuation (from the attic to rooms downstairs). Does
anybody know how I can get the signal from the antenna in the attic to
TVs downstairs? Thank you.

Try a female/female rf connector from radio shack. Bypassing the splitter
to see if it sends signal to each tv's

Sounds like he already did:

"However, if I drop a 100' coax cable directly from the antenna in the
attic to the TV downstairs (bypassing the splitter and all of the home
cable wiring), the picture is crisp and perfect."

*If* we take what he wrote above verbatim, I would suspect the cable from
the antenna to the splitter. I would try his 100' bypass cable again, but
this time include the antenna feed cable in the path. If it doesn't work,
it's that lead cable.

Or, just use screw the bypass directly into the splitter.