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TV antenna question
My buddy doesn't have cable where he lives so I got him this antenna:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How do I hook it up to his TV? He has a tube TV with a coaxial connector. |
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Jon wrote:
My buddy doesn't have cable where he lives so I got him this antenna: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How do I hook it up to his TV? He has a tube TV with a coaxial connector. -- The instructions packed with the antenna should describe how to hook it up to just about any TV. Having never seen this antenna, nor any like it, I'm guessing, but installation appears logical. The package has a 40 foot piece of coax in it. He'll have to find a route to run the coax down from the antenna, through the house to the TV. The other end of that coax probably connects into the control box. Use the short piece of coax from the control box to the TV's antenna connector. The infrared remote should find a home on the table beside the recliner in front of the TV. Cheers, Dave M |
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My buddy doesn't have cable where he lives so I got him this antenna:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How do I hook it up to his TV? He has a tube [sic] TV with a coaxial connector. You mean a CRT TV. Problem... It won't work. Analog broadcasts have all-but disappeared. He needs a converter. Quite conveniently, I have an unused Zenith DT-990 I'd be happy to sell. |
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My buddy doesn't have cable where he lives so I got him this antenna:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How do I hook it up to his TV? He has a tube TV with a coaxial connector. Depending on his TV, you may very well need some additional equipment to make this setup work. The actual antenna-to-TV arrangement is fairly straightforward and should be described in the instructions packed with the box. Basically: mount antenna and rotator on a mast on the roof. Ground the mast (you'll need a separate heavy-gauge grounding wire and a ground rod, probably available at a good hardware store). The antenna comes with a 40' length of coax cable - attach one end to the antenna and run the other down and into the building (add a "drip loop" at the bottom just before it comes indoors) and to near the TV. Connect this to the "antenna" input on the control box which comes with the antenna. The antenna comes with a second (1') length of coax cable... use this to connect the control box to the TV's coaxial connector. Plug the control box into AC power (it may have either a full power cord or a "wall wart"). At this point you should have a signal, and should be able to use the remote control which comes with the antenna setup to rotate the antenna to point it towards various TV station transmitter sites. And, you may not be able to see a picture. Most "tube" TVs will handle only analog (NTSC or PAL) television signals. The US and most other countries have switched over to digital TV transmission, and older TV sets won't see them as anything but noise. To receive digital TV you'll either need a newer television (probably flat-panel), or will need to attach a "digital TV converter" between the antenna control box and the TV's coaxial input. These are fairly easily available here in the US (they were being sold via a subsidized "coupon" system a few years ago in order to ease the switchover to digital TV) and you can probably find one on CraigsList or in a local thrift store if you look around. Most older cable-TV systems are still distributing at least the basic channels in analog form, and don't require a converter box for basic service. That is no longer true of over-the-air TV broadcasts in the US; analog TV is for all practical purposes gone. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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On Sunday, May 19, 2013 2:39:12 PM UTC-4, William Sommerwerck wrote:
My buddy doesn't have cable where he lives so I got him this antenna: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How do I hook it up to his TV? He has a tube [sic] TV with a coaxial connector. You mean a CRT TV. Problem... It won't work. Analog broadcasts have all-but disappeared. He needs a converter. Quite conveniently, I have an unused Zenith DT-990 I'd be happy to sell. Some CRT TVs did include ATSC tuners. OP's buddy may have such a TV |
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"Dave M" wrote in message ... Jon wrote: My buddy doesn't have cable where he lives so I got him this antenna: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How do I hook it up to his TV? He has a tube TV with a coaxial connector. -- The instructions packed with the antenna should describe how to hook it up to just about any TV. Having never seen this antenna, nor any like it, I'm guessing, but installation appears logical. The package has a 40 foot piece of coax in it. He'll have to find a route to run the coax down from the antenna, through the house to the TV. The other end of that coax probably connects into the control box. If the cable runs down the outside and enters through a hole in the wall - don't forget a "drip-loop". You need a loop hanging down for rain water to drip from instead of running down the cable and into the house. |
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On 05/19/2013 03:04 PM, Jon wrote:
My buddy doesn't have cable where he lives so I got him this antenna: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How do I hook it up to his TV? He has a tube TV with a coaxial connector. Don't hook it up to the T.V. It will be more useful if you throw the antenna through the CRT. Hearing the CRT break and watching it fall to the floor in pieces is way more funny than any 'comedy' on CBS/NBC. |
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On 05/19/2013 09:48 PM, John-Del wrote:
On Sunday, May 19, 2013 2:39:12 PM UTC-4, William Sommerwerck wrote: My buddy doesn't have cable where he lives so I got him this antenna: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How do I hook it up to his TV? He has a tube [sic] TV with a coaxial connector. You mean a CRT TV. Problem... It won't work. Analog broadcasts have all-but disappeared. He needs a converter. Quite conveniently, I have an unused Zenith DT-990 I'd be happy to sell. Some CRT TVs did include ATSC tuners. OP's buddy may have such a TV They haven't sold CRT TVs with ATSC tuners in a few years. Given the build quality of such Chinese trash, I wouldn't be surprised if it was already on it's way to the trash, where it belongs. |
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On 05/19/2013 06:39 PM, William Sommerwerck wrote:
My buddy doesn't have cable where he lives so I got him this antenna: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How do I hook it up to his TV? He has a tube [sic] TV with a coaxial connector. You mean a CRT TV. Problem... It won't work. Analog broadcasts have all-but disappeared. He needs a converter. Quite conveniently, I have an unused Zenith DT-990 I'd be happy to sell. Why buy it. Watching snow and listening to static is much more entertaining that the Zionist propaganda trash that passes for "television programming." |
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On 05/22/2013 04:09 PM, Ian Field wrote:
"Dave M" wrote in message ... Jon wrote: My buddy doesn't have cable where he lives so I got him this antenna: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 How do I hook it up to his TV? He has a tube TV with a coaxial connector. -- The instructions packed with the antenna should describe how to hook it up to just about any TV. Having never seen this antenna, nor any like it, I'm guessing, but installation appears logical. The package has a 40 foot piece of coax in it. He'll have to find a route to run the coax down from the antenna, through the house to the TV. The other end of that coax probably connects into the control box. If the cable runs down the outside and enters through a hole in the wall - don't forget a "drip-loop". You need a loop hanging down for rain water to drip from instead of running down the cable and into the house. Or it might run down the cable and into the TV, thus shorting the ****er out and therefore liberating oneself from Zionist brainwashing. |
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TV antenna question
I've had limited succcess with HDTV antenae. My uncle apparently replaced
his roof antena with some amplifier he got from Radio Shack. I get different stations in different parts of the house. But I agree, tv is largely worthless, so paying for cable is a waste. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
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Ian Field wrote:
[snip] If the cable runs down the outside and enters through a hole in the wall - don't forget a "drip-loop". You need a loop hanging down for rain water to drip from instead of running down the cable and into the house. You'll need a coax lightning arrester and grounding point as well. -- Paul Hovnanian ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dyslexics have more fnu. |
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"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote in message ... Ian Field wrote: [snip] If the cable runs down the outside and enters through a hole in the wall - don't forget a "drip-loop". You need a loop hanging down for rain water to drip from instead of running down the cable and into the house. You'll need a coax lightning arrester and grounding point as well. Its such an excercise in futility - few people bother! |
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On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Ian Field wrote:
"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote in message ... Ian Field wrote: [snip] If the cable runs down the outside and enters through a hole in the wall - don't forget a "drip-loop". You need a loop hanging down for rain water to drip from instead of running down the cable and into the house. You'll need a coax lightning arrester and grounding point as well. Its such an excercise in futility - few people bother! I once lost a modem due to a fairly close lightning strike. I remember how loud the boom was, and then my modem (an internal 28.8 or maybe 36.6) still worked but was really slow. Wait, I had the modem going through a power bar (actually a metal box, that old or good), it having two phone jacks with some sort of MOV or whatever in case of lightning. And the MOVs or whatever in the powerbar shorted out. Once I realized that, the modem kind of worked, but was sluggish, like something had gone but enough signal got through to allow some operation, albeit with a lot of resends. I never replaced that powerbar, I just took the risk of losing another modem. But it surely makes a case for that extra protection. Michael |
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"Michael Black" wrote in message news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1306031235580.27611@darkstar. example.org... On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Ian Field wrote: "Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote in message ... Ian Field wrote: [snip] If the cable runs down the outside and enters through a hole in the wall - don't forget a "drip-loop". You need a loop hanging down for rain water to drip from instead of running down the cable and into the house. You'll need a coax lightning arrester and grounding point as well. Its such an excercise in futility - few people bother! I once lost a modem due to a fairly close lightning strike. I remember how loud the boom was, and then my modem (an internal 28.8 or maybe 36.6) still worked but was really slow. Wait, I had the modem going through a power bar (actually a metal box, that old or good), it having two phone jacks with some sort of MOV or whatever in case of lightning. And the MOVs or whatever in the powerbar shorted out. Once I realized that, the modem kind of worked, but was sluggish, like something had gone but enough signal got through to allow some operation, albeit with a lot of resends. I never replaced that powerbar, I just took the risk of losing another modem. But it surely makes a case for that extra protection. There's all sorts of reasons to avoid internal modems like the plague - the last one I had didn't have its own precessor and relied on the MOBO CPU to do all the heavy lifting. Last time I used a POTS modem, was an external - I made an extension lead to reach from from the wall jack to my desk, that terminated in a loose wall jack plate with added telecom grade gas discharge surge arrestors, they were grounded by heavy braid to the PC case. MOVs are OK, but they degrade a little with every transient event and at some point in the future will fail to protect. |
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