Hi
I would like to connect my hi-fi's tuner to my TV's communial aerial
socket on the wall with the aid of some sort of coaxial splitter, is
this possible? On the rear of the hi-fi are the aerial connectors which
appear to accept strands of exposed wire by pressing and releasing a
small lever. The five connections are split between 300ohm, 75ohm and
AM. Whats the best way to get a decent reception from the tuner?
Thanks for any advice.
Johno

wrote in news:1132062816.151387.236660
@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Hi
I would like to connect my hi-fi's tuner to my TV's communial aerial
socket on the wall with the aid of some sort of coaxial splitter, is
this possible? On the rear of the hi-fi are the aerial connectors which
appear to accept strands of exposed wire by pressing and releasing a
small lever. The five connections are split between 300ohm, 75ohm and
AM. Whats the best way to get a decent reception from the tuner?
Thanks for any advice.

You can get passive splitters that are fairly good devices. Try any radio-
TV parts store for one of those. Connect one output to your regular TV's
antenna connection and the other to the 75ohm input on your tuner. This
will get you any FM signals that are being carried on the communal system.
For AM, you're better off just attaching as long a piece of wire as you
can, unless you want to get into special active antennas.

--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

Dave Oldridge wrote:
wrote in news:1132062816.151387.236660
@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Hi
I would like to connect my hi-fi's tuner to my TV's communial aerial
socket on the wall with the aid of some sort of coaxial splitter, is
this possible? On the rear of the hi-fi are the aerial connectors which
appear to accept strands of exposed wire by pressing and releasing a
small lever. The five connections are split between 300ohm, 75ohm and
AM. Whats the best way to get a decent reception from the tuner?
Thanks for any advice.

You can get passive splitters that are fairly good devices. Try any radio-
TV parts store for one of those. Connect one output to your regular TV's
antenna connection and the other to the 75ohm input on your tuner. This
will get you any FM signals that are being carried on the communal system.
For AM, you're better off just attaching as long a piece of wire as you
can, unless you want to get into special active antennas.

--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

Thanks for the reply Dave.
From my question you will probably realise that I am a complete novice
here. Can you send me a link to an image of the passive splitter you
have in mind. Everything that I looked at on the web did not seem
appropriate. Just to elaborate I will be able to connect a two stranded
wire to the back of my hi-fi's tuner aerial sockets (To the 75ohm
inputs as you recommend), so how will I connect the other end of the
wire to the passive splitter?
Johno

On 15 Nov 2005 05:53:36 -0800, wrote:

Hi
I would like to connect my hi-fi's tuner to my TV's communial aerial
socket on the wall with the aid of some sort of coaxial splitter, is
this possible? On the rear of the hi-fi are the aerial connectors which
appear to accept strands of exposed wire by pressing and releasing a
small lever. The five connections are split between 300ohm, 75ohm and
AM. Whats the best way to get a decent reception from the tuner?
Thanks for any advice.
Johno

Do you have Radio Shacks in the UK? I'd just go to them or someone
similar, and let them provide you with a splitter and the appropos
cables. (Enter "splitter" at the RS site and it comes up with 35
matches.)

bob
k5qwg

Bob Miller wrote:
On 15 Nov 2005 05:53:36 -0800, wrote:

Hi
I would like to connect my hi-fi's tuner to my TV's communial aerial
socket on the wall with the aid of some sort of coaxial splitter, is
this possible? On the rear of the hi-fi are the aerial connectors which
appear to accept strands of exposed wire by pressing and releasing a
small lever. The five connections are split between 300ohm, 75ohm and
AM. Whats the best way to get a decent reception from the tuner?
Thanks for any advice.
Johno

Do you have Radio Shacks in the UK? I'd just go to them or someone
similar, and let them provide you with a splitter and the appropos
cables. (Enter "splitter" at the RS site and it comes up with 35
matches.)

bob
k5qwg

Thanks for the input so far. Maplins is a similar store in the UK to
Radio Shacks. So just to confirm, I have a two stranded aerial wire.
One end of the aerial wire I am going to connect the two stands to the
tuners 75ohm aerial sockets. What do I do with the two strands of wire
at the other end of the aerial wire? As I have said I am a complete
novice here but from this response this probably does not need
repeating. Johno

On 17 Nov 2005 06:05:44 -0800, wrote:

Bob Miller wrote:
On 15 Nov 2005 05:53:36 -0800, wrote:

Hi
I would like to connect my hi-fi's tuner to my TV's communial aerial
socket on the wall with the aid of some sort of coaxial splitter, is
this possible? On the rear of the hi-fi are the aerial connectors which
appear to accept strands of exposed wire by pressing and releasing a
small lever. The five connections are split between 300ohm, 75ohm and
AM. Whats the best way to get a decent reception from the tuner?
Thanks for any advice.
Johno

Do you have Radio Shacks in the UK? I'd just go to them or someone
similar, and let them provide you with a splitter and the appropos
cables. (Enter "splitter" at the RS site and it comes up with 35
matches.)

bob
k5qwg

Thanks for the input so far. Maplins is a similar store in the UK to
Radio Shacks. So just to confirm, I have a two stranded aerial wire.
One end of the aerial wire I am going to connect the two stands to the
tuners 75ohm aerial sockets. What do I do with the two strands of wire
at the other end of the aerial wire?

Connect to the splitter. The easiest thing would be to draw a diagram
of what you have, take it to Maplins, and they can pick out a splitter
that will work, along with any cables or plug adaptors you might need.
It's sorta hard to describe all this in text :-)

Bob
k5qwg


As I have said I am a complete
novice here but from this response this probably does not need
repeating. Johno

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Dave Oldridge wrote:
wrote in news:1132062816.151387.236660
@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Hi
I would like to connect my hi-fi's tuner to my TV's communial
aerial socket on the wall with the aid of some sort of coaxial
splitter, is this possible? On the rear of the hi-fi are the aerial
connectors which appear to accept strands of exposed wire by
pressing and releasing a small lever. The five connections are
split between 300ohm, 75ohm and AM. Whats the best way to get a
decent reception from the tuner? Thanks for any advice.

You can get passive splitters that are fairly good devices. Try any
radio- TV parts store for one of those. Connect one output to your
regular TV's antenna connection and the other to the 75ohm input on
your tuner. This will get you any FM signals that are being carried
on the communal system. For AM, you're better off just attaching as
long a piece of wire as you can, unless you want to get into special
active antennas.

--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

Thanks for the reply Dave.
From my question you will probably realise that I am a complete novice
here. Can you send me a link to an image of the passive splitter you
have in mind. Everything that I looked at on the web did not seem
appropriate. Just to elaborate I will be able to connect a two
stranded wire to the back of my hi-fi's tuner aerial sockets (To the
75ohm inputs as you recommend), so how will I connect the other end of
the wire to the passive splitter?

Use a piece of coax. RG-59 should work for this run. Put an F-connector
on one end and just cut the other end open and split the braid from the
coax. The braid goes to the ground side of your 75 ohms and the center
conductor to the hot side. A cheap jumper and chop off the connector on
one end will do the job for you on the FM side and another one with both
ends bolted on for the TV side..


http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/r....html#splitter

The cheap {$9.99) RCA one is actually overkill for your application, I
think (unless your cable has stuff on it past 1ghz).

--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667