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Inline digitial terrestrial amplifier

  • 31-01-2018 9:25am
    #1
    lawred2
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    Are there inline amplifiers that can be had to amplify a reasonably decent but infrequently choppy Saorview reception?

    The aerial is a part of a shared distribution system - and the installer of said system is baulking at any costs to improve the signal.. Wondering if I can do anything locally in my house..


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  • #2
    Digifriendly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,073 ✭✭✭Digifriendly


    I use a super set back amplifier I purchased off Amazon and it is very good. See - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fringe-Gain-Super-Television-Amplifier/dp/B001FYW1UW.
    These amplifiers which are at the end of the aerial cable beside the TV are obviously limited in what they can do and not nearly as effective as masthead ones. They amplify noise as well as signal but if reception is right on 'cliff edge' as it were they can do the job you want them to. Also they are obviously easy to fit.


  • #3
    lawred2
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    Cheers - I'll take a look. I'm fairly confident that the base signal is strong enough so as to see benefit from amplification.


  • #4
    lawred2
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    Do you have that at the TV or when the coax enters the house?


  • #5
    Digifriendly
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    Right at end of aerial cable just behind TV.


  • #6
    winston_1
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    lawred2 wrote: »
    Are there inline amplifiers that can be had to amplify a reasonably decent but infrequently choppy Saorview reception?

    The aerial is a part of a shared distribution system - and the installer of said system is baulking at any costs to improve the signal.. Wondering if I can do anything locally in my house..
    Waste of time, waste of money, waste of electricity. Amplifiers are to overcome the loss on a long run of cable and MUST go at the beginning of that cable.


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  • #7
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,557 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    winston_1 wrote: »
    Waste of time, waste of money, waste of electricity. Amplifiers are to overcome the loss on a long run of cable and MUST go at the beginning of that cable.

    yeah tried an amplifier - complete waste of time. Made no difference.


  • #8
    Digifriendly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,073 ✭✭✭Digifriendly


    Sorry to hear this. I do tend to agree with Winston 1 especially if signal is weak in the first place. In that scenario either a stronger aerial or masthead amplifier is the answer. However where signal is right on the very cliff edge an indoor amplifier can make a difference.


  • #9
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    lawred2 wrote: »
    yeah tried an amplifier - complete waste of time. Made no difference.

    I assume you tried it where 'the coax enters the house', as you mentioned in an earlier post?

    How is the cable routed from there to the TV(s)?


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