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

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In message , charles
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Tim Lamb wrote:
I know this should go elsewhere but would rather display my ignorance
among friends...

TV aerial feeds. We have a loft 4 way amplifier. How likely am I to get
away with simply Teeing off the load end of one of those to supply a
5th. load?

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,

Impending lodger!

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

Shush!
Might be few weeks only anyway.


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Tim Lamb