Testing a TV antenna
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Hello,
I just moved into a house that is part of a residence. The antenna is outside the houses, on the garages. I don't know how the houses are connected to the antenna.
In the living room, there is a wall socket where I plugged in my main TV, and everything works perfectly.
In my bedroom, there is a coaxial cable coming out of the wall, but I have no idea where it comes from. It was a bare cable without a connector. I put a male connector on it so I could connect my bedroom TV, but "no signal" appears regardless of the channel... So, I plugged in the indoor antenna that I used with this TV in my previous home (the bedroom in that place had no antenna cable), but only channels 2, 3, France 4, and France O work, and even those are pretty glitchy. Yesterday morning, to my surprise, I had all the channels except 6, 9, and 6ter. I tried to move this indoor antenna a little bit to find the last missing channels, but everything disappeared. After adjusting the indoor antenna multiple times, I managed to get the group of channels France 2, France 3, France 4, France Info, and France O back, but that's all, and they are glitchy as well...
How can I test the cable that comes out of the wall knowing that I can't test the other end since it comes out of the wall, but I don't know where it comes from and I don't have access to the attic?
Why does my indoor antenna suddenly not work anymore when it is connected the same way as before?
Being with a public landlord, can I call an antenna technician?
Thank you in advance for your responses.
I just moved into a house that is part of a residence. The antenna is outside the houses, on the garages. I don't know how the houses are connected to the antenna.
In the living room, there is a wall socket where I plugged in my main TV, and everything works perfectly.
In my bedroom, there is a coaxial cable coming out of the wall, but I have no idea where it comes from. It was a bare cable without a connector. I put a male connector on it so I could connect my bedroom TV, but "no signal" appears regardless of the channel... So, I plugged in the indoor antenna that I used with this TV in my previous home (the bedroom in that place had no antenna cable), but only channels 2, 3, France 4, and France O work, and even those are pretty glitchy. Yesterday morning, to my surprise, I had all the channels except 6, 9, and 6ter. I tried to move this indoor antenna a little bit to find the last missing channels, but everything disappeared. After adjusting the indoor antenna multiple times, I managed to get the group of channels France 2, France 3, France 4, France Info, and France O back, but that's all, and they are glitchy as well...
How can I test the cable that comes out of the wall knowing that I can't test the other end since it comes out of the wall, but I don't know where it comes from and I don't have access to the attic?
Why does my indoor antenna suddenly not work anymore when it is connected the same way as before?
Being with a public landlord, can I call an antenna technician?
Thank you in advance for your responses.
2 réponses
Good evening Andy,
My TV doesn't have a signal strength bar, it's either there is a signal or there isn't, so it's not possible to adjust the indoor antenna :o(
What I don't understand is why one day almost all the channels worked with the indoor antenna and then suddenly nothing...
The two wall sockets in the living room are on the same unit and both work well. How can I know if the wire from the bedroom is the other end of one of these two sockets? And what would it mean if it were the end of one of those two sockets? Since they work, in my opinion, it can't be the wire from the bedroom.
I called my landlord today to ask if I have the right to have an antenna technician come, but he replied that if there was a wire, it was up to him (the landlord) to intervene, so I'm waiting to see if he will do anything, but the evenings without TV in the bedroom are likely to be long! If I could solve this problem myself at least it would be done...
My TV doesn't have a signal strength bar, it's either there is a signal or there isn't, so it's not possible to adjust the indoor antenna :o(
What I don't understand is why one day almost all the channels worked with the indoor antenna and then suddenly nothing...
The two wall sockets in the living room are on the same unit and both work well. How can I know if the wire from the bedroom is the other end of one of these two sockets? And what would it mean if it were the end of one of those two sockets? Since they work, in my opinion, it can't be the wire from the bedroom.
I called my landlord today to ask if I have the right to have an antenna technician come, but he replied that if there was a wire, it was up to him (the landlord) to intervene, so I'm waiting to see if he will do anything, but the evenings without TV in the bedroom are likely to be long! If I could solve this problem myself at least it would be done...
