Trying to get channels from wall aerial

Maryire

My sister had UPC in her living room with all the digital channels and from what I have read here what seemed to be the analog channels in the kitchen. She did not have a saorview box in the kitchen and it was an older model Sony bravia so did not have saorview on it.

I just moved into her old house and I want the same set up, but I can only seem to get radio channels when I hook up the aerial from the wall aerial in the kitchen to the TV. I also tried to hook up a newer TV which has saorview installed and I can only get saorview channels but I would rather have the additional channels like sky news which is what I watch in the kitchen.

I have the UPC box connected in the living room and running a cable from there to the kitchen is not an option. I have tv and broadband conncected through the UPC cable box that was there. There is also an old earthlink box in addition to the UPC box behind the tv in the living room and for kicks I put a cable into that into the tv and got all the analog channels.

Is there anything else I can try?

Mary

Thurston?

I suppose I'd try to establish if the kitchen TV point is still linked to the UPC cables or if someone has connected it to an aerial for Saorview. (Could be in the attic.)

Or the Saorview signal might be strong enough at that location to just be picked up on poorly screened cables alone, acting as an inefficient UHF aerial.

Maryire

How would I find out if the kitchen tv point is still linked to the upc cables or if somebody has connected it to an aerial for Saorview? Nobody has done anything with it since she disconnected her TV a few months ago and I just moved in and havnt done anything other than set up upc in the living room.

How would the saorview signal be strong now at that location when nothing has been messed with.

Sorry that these may be silly questions but I just assumed that I would be able to plug the tv and aerial in and I would have the same set up!

Mary

Thurston?

Well, if nothing was changed, & your sister had the UPC analogue channels in the kitchen, then you should get them too, provided the TV is capable of tuning them, you're doing the right scan on the TV, & looking in the right channel list for them.

Have you tried the TV that got the analogue channels in the livingroom, at the kitchen point? If not, what are the make/model of the TVs you have tried?

Maryire

Maybe I am tuning incorrectly. I have a 2006 Sony Bravia model no KDL 20S2020 currently hooked up to it. How should I be tuning it?
I also had tried a 2013 LG 22MN43D.

Thurston?

Another thing I should mention is the possibility of a disconnected cable in the livingroom, that may have been feeding the kitchen. Could have happened before or during the setting up of your own box.

Maryire

Thurston? wrote: »

Another thing I should mention is the possibility of a disconnected cable in the livingroom, that may have been feeding the kitchen. Could have happened before or during the setting up of your own box.

I am thinking that this may have happened. What type of cable could have been feeding the kitchen or what would I need to do to connect it up again?

I just plugged the Sony Bravia into the earthlink box and did the auto tune and I got the channels so I had been tuning it correctly and the tv works with it so must be something not feeding into it. I just reconnected it to the kitchen and tried again and it says to connect aerial, but the aerial works with a saorview box attached.

Thanks for your responses and patience

Thurston?

If the kitchen was fed from the livingroom point, & has been disconnected, I'd expect there to be a coaxial cable just lying there, or maybe an usused wall socket that needs a link cable. (To the 'Earthlink' box I suppose: cable in livingroom wall socket would be connected to kitchen wall socket, livingroom socket linked to any livingroom output that analogue channels are available from.)

exaisle

I think your best bet is to get somebody who knows what they're doing to have a look see....anybody with a basic knowledge of tv antennas etc should be able to figure it out fairly quickly.....

Maryire

exaisle wrote: »

I think your best bet is to get somebody who knows what they're doing to have a look see....anybody with a basic knowledge of tv antennas etc should be able to figure it out fairly quickly.....

I am sure that they could, but I was hoping to avoid having to pay somebody to come out. It would probably cost me as much as having signing up for multi tv with upc which I don't need in the kitchen.

Maryire

Thurston? wrote: »

If the kitchen was fed from the livingroom point, & has been disconnected, I'd expect there to be a coaxial cable just lying there, or maybe an usused wall socket that needs a link cable. (To the 'Earthlink' box I suppose: cable in livingroom wall socket would be connected to kitchen wall socket, livingroom socket linked to any livingroom output that analogue channels are available from.)

Thank you so much. There was another wall socket beside the earthlink box so I connected those and auto tuned and got the channels. I really appreciate your help.