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"SimoninEaston" <simonhpainter@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Cor - sounds a bit complicated! The extra complication in my case is
> that I don't use a television... I've got a TV aerial, with what I
> assume is analogue co-ax coming down from it, which at the moment is
> coiled up and hanging from a hook in the attic. Presumably the only way
> I could see the set-top box settings is by viewing the menu on a
> television, which I don't want to do (no licence, for starters) Do FM
> aerials ever work OK installed inside attic (in inner city
> surroundings) or should I bite the bullit and pay a professional to
> install an outdoor aerial???
>
As Chung correctly pointed out, I assumed you were talking about a cable tv
cable when you mentioned "set top box". These to the best of my knowledge
are only used for cable tv or satellite tv. And a rotor box is used for
rotating a rooftop TV antenna. Other than that, I don't know what you mean
by a "set top box".
Do you have an antenna on the roof? Is that where the cable wire is coming
from? If so, does that antenna have a rotor on the pole (underneath the
antenna...looks like a big "bulge" on the pole)? More infor would help us
give you guidance.
Or were you in fact talking about cable TV?
> Harry Lavo wrote:
>> "SimoninEaston" <simonhpainter@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:d7o8600jp5@news4.newsguy.com...
>> >I have a couple of good tuners - Quad FM4 and Leak TroughLine, and am
>> > having touble getting an aerial to work with either (have no access to
>> > roof). I have heard that it is possible to utilize an existing TV
>> > aerial to receive FM broadcast via a (television) "set-top box" Any
>> > comments, folks?
>>
>> Depends.
>>
>> First, you've got to have analog, not digital cable. Or if you have
>> digital, then you've got to tap off of a coax output following the
>> decoder...not terribly likely as most tv's these days don't use a coax
>> input
>> from the cable box.
>>
>> But assuming you have a coax cable, analog input, no filters anywhere in
>> the
>> line (cable companies often install them at their junction box and will
>> only
>> remove them if you pay extra), then you can do it.
>>
>> You need an FM/TV splitter (not filter, splitter). This feeds the FM out
>> on
>> its own (usually coax) line and the tv on another. You'll need an extra
>> cable. Finally, if the FM out of the splitter is coax and you have only
>> a
>> 300 ohm antenna input, you will need a conversion transformer/adaptor for
>> the final connection to the tuner.
>>
>> But it can be done. I did it once, years ago. Reception was okay, but
>> occassionally had a "gritty" quality that I've never had over the air.