A friend has had poor TV reception and on checking, I found that the
Aerial wall socket was giving a poor connection. The outlet needs to be
replaced and I'm assuming that it was the original outlet.

The outlet fits a standard pattress box and has a single socket. The plate
on the back of the outlet has two isolated connections and a coaxial cable
going to each of them. I can't remember exactly what was on the plate, but
there appeared ot be one or more capacitors.

The outlet is on a community aerial in a block of 26 flats.

I'm not sure what the cables a

1) the outlet is in series with other flats an (I assume this to be
unlikely)

2) the incoming cables are one for TV and one for FM and the outlet is
actually a splitter.

He has always had the TV aerial lead connected direct to the outlet socket
and has generally had a reasonable picture, even getting freeview OK most
of the time.

The only information I can find is YOD I/II printed on the plate, which
leads me to assume that this is indeed a diplexer (In which case the
socket is a combined outlet and he should have also been using an external
diplexer to split the signal back to TV and FM outputs.

Can anybody confirm what the outlet is and what a suitable replacement
would be?


Thanks

Roger

wrote:

The outlet is on a community aerial in a block of 26 flats.
I'm not sure what the cables a

1) the outlet is in series with other flats an (I assume this to be
unlikely)

some are wired like that, if it is you've saved the other 25 residents
the from the Queen's speech!

2) the incoming cables are one for TV and one for FM and the outlet is
actually a splitter.

Probably more likely, though if it were using a diplexer/triplexer it
could combine satellite/uhf tv/vhf fm/dab on one cable

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(Andy Burns) wrote:

wrote:

The outlet is on a community aerial in a block of 26 flats.
I'm not sure what the cables a

1) the outlet is in series with other flats an (I assume this to be
unlikely)

some are wired like that, if it is you've saved the other 25 residents
the from the Queen's speech!

2) the incoming cables are one for TV and one for FM and the outlet
is actually a splitter.

Probably more likely, though if it were using a diplexer/triplexer it
could combine satellite/uhf tv/vhf fm/dab on one cable




Thanks

it looks like I'm going to have to take the outlet off and take it to one
of those firms that do contract installations to see if they can identify
it / supply a replacement..

I've looked in the TLC etc catalogues, but I can't see anything like it.

Roger

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says...
In article ,
(Andy Burns) wrote:

wrote:

The outlet is on a community aerial in a block of 26 flats.
I'm not sure what the cables a

1) the outlet is in series with other flats an (I assume this to be
unlikely)

some are wired like that, if it is you've saved the other 25 residents
the from the Queen's speech!

2) the incoming cables are one for TV and one for FM and the outlet
is actually a splitter.

Probably more likely, though if it were using a diplexer/triplexer it
could combine satellite/uhf tv/vhf fm/dab on one cable




Thanks

it looks like I'm going to have to take the outlet off and take it to one
of those firms that do contract installations to see if they can identify
it / supply a replacement..

Why not attach a length of coax to the back of the socket and run that
to a new outlet? Or you could just leave it dangling with an in-line
socket on the end.

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(Rob Morley) wrote:

In article ,
says...
In article ,
(Andy Burns) wrote:

wrote:

The outlet is on a community aerial in a block of 26 flats.
I'm not sure what the cables a

1) the outlet is in series with other flats an (I assume this to
be unlikely) some are wired like that, if it is you've
saved the other 25 residents the from the Queen's speech!

2) the incoming cables are one for TV and one for FM and the
outlet is actually a splitter.

Probably more likely, though if it were using a diplexer/triplexer
it could combine satellite/uhf tv/vhf fm/dab on one cable




Thanks

it looks like I'm going to have to take the outlet off and take it to
one of those firms that do contract installations to see if they can
identify it / supply a replacement..

Why not attach a length of coax to the back of the socket and run that
to a new outlet? Or you could just leave it dangling with an in-line
socket on the end.

That is one option which I might look at. I need to have another look at
the outlet. However, I remember seeing at least one capacitor there (and
possibly other components) which may mean that there is a special coupling
/ isolation between the two incoming cables and the solitary socket. I
need to have another look at the outlet and see what the circuit on the
PCB consists of.

Roger