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Thread: Connecting 2-Wire Antenna Wire / UHF on TV??? |
    
New member Username: Buddy_secor
Post Number: 1
Registered: Jan-05
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| Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 07:19 pm: |
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OK, This is probably a stupid question and I hope not to embarris myself too bad, but here goes... My sister has a regular VHF/UHF antenna on her roof. It has 2-wire coming into the house. Her newer TV only has a coax type screw in connection. We connected the 2-wire to one of those coax end connects and plugged it into the back of her TV. She has great reception in the VHF range, channels 1-13. However, the UHF range in channels above 13 are extremely fuzzy and impossible to watch. What are we doing wrong? Old TV's had a place to wire the UHF leads, but the newer ones have RCA, coax, s-video, component and the like. How do you go from old tech antenna 2-wire to a new TV with only coax? Your response would be greatly appreciated. Buddy Secor buddysecor@adelphia.net
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Trent Foster Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 10:39 am: |
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I used an indoor/outdoor 75W to 300W matching transformer that hooked to the two prongs of the antenna that cost only a couple of bucks (it came with a rubber boot to keep dry). I removed the 2-wire and ran rg-6 from the other end of the transformer into my house into the tv. The rg-6 cost maybe 10 bucks at the hardware store. Rg-59 was a little cheaper but I will be getting a new high definition tv and rg-6 is better for picking up digital signals in the uhf band. Hope this helps. |
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