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Using cable coaxial for OTA signal

post #1 of 6
9/14/10 at 8:37am
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I live in a town home with bedrooms in the upstairs and living room in the downstairs. I recently canceled my cable tv and internet and using an indoor antenna for OTA channels. I am having issues with some channels.

I am thinking of placing the antenna upstairs in my bedroom near a window (where I think will have a better reception) and connect the antenna output to cable wall plate in the bedroom and then connect output from cable wall plate to my HD TV. This way I can use the existing coaxial wiring in the aparment.

Will it work? I neither have cable nor internet so I think there should not be any interference from the cable signal. But I am not sure.
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post #2 of 6
9/14/10 at 2:06pm
If the cable only went straight from one wall plate to the other wall plate it would work. But it probably is connected through a splitter and who knows what else.
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post #3 of 6
9/14/10 at 2:37pm
Check behind the wall plates that have Cable TV connections on them, and see if there are splitters in the boxes. If so, get back to us with the info.

If there are not any splitters accessible, they are probably inside a Cable company lockbox, probably outdoors and not accessible to you.
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post #4 of 6
9/14/10 at 3:31pm
Yes it should work, but as stated it depends on how all your splitters are configured, if present. You may have to do some sleuthing on the coax routing.

Also, you probably would want to put an antenna amp at the antenna location to distribute that.
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post #5 of 6
9/15/10 at 12:45pm
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Thanks a lot for your replies.

I tried it last night. It seams it is not working. I got very weak picture with dots for all 6 major channels. I used the antenna with pre amplifier.

The weird thing antenna has no effect at allo, I got the same PQ even when I disconnected the antenna upstairs.

I think may be two wall plates are not connected at all. I will try to open the plates and see if there are any visible splitters and post it here.
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post #6 of 6
9/16/10 at 8:32pm
Check outside your home and see if the cable runs to each room are still connected to a splitter outside. I'm going to guess they're not connected to each other any more, which is why the signal didn't make it from the bedroom to the living room.

If the cable company left the connectors on the cables, but maybe took the splitter, you could buy one, attach it to the three cables yourself, and the other two rooms might then benefit from the antenna being connected in the third room, especially if the antenna has an amp.
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