Help for a simple man
 

Someone asked me if I could get a Nokia ON Digital box set up so they could
get TopUp. They have a reasonable size aerial on the chimney which could be
up to 15 years old. The cable coming down is a brown colour. Plugged it all
in, brilliant!!, clear picture no break up. Problem comes that they want the
set in the next room so they went out and bought a nice new white aerial
extension lead which seems to kill the signal to almost nothing when it is
used.
Is there any way around this problem, preferably without climbing up the
chimney pot.

"thecameraman" wrote in message
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Someone asked me if I could get a Nokia ON Digital box set up so they
could
get TopUp. They have a reasonable size aerial on the chimney which could
be
up to 15 years old. The cable coming down is a brown colour. Plugged it
all
in, brilliant!!, clear picture no break up. Problem comes that they want
the
set in the next room so they went out and bought a nice new white aerial
extension lead which seems to kill the signal to almost nothing when it is
used.
Is there any way around this problem, preferably without climbing up the
chimney pot.


Is it very thin coax cable?
I tried to use a white extention lead once which was thin and that lost much
of the signal.
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Regards,
David

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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:11:05 -0000, "thecameraman"
wrote:

Someone asked me if I could get a Nokia ON Digital box set up so they could
get TopUp. They have a reasonable size aerial on the chimney which could be
up to 15 years old. The cable coming down is a brown colour. Plugged it all
in, brilliant!!, clear picture no break up. Problem comes that they want the
set in the next room so they went out and bought a nice new white aerial
extension lead which seems to kill the signal to almost nothing when it is
used.
Is there any way around this problem, preferably without climbing up the
chimney pot.



Some of these pre made extension leads can be dreadful. It would be
worth making one yourself with a bit of satellite grade cable and the
right connectors. I hope you can get a few beers out of it :-)

norm

so they went out and bought a nice new white aerial
extension lead which seems to kill the signal to almost nothing when it is
used.
Is there any way around this problem, preferably without climbing up the
chimney pot.

Get you friendly local aerial bloke to make up a lead with CT100 and metal
plugs.

Bill