How To Run A Roof Antenna

Or so i thought.

How to run a roof antenna.

In this case the home owner has no idea but they want to keep their internet and attach a roof antenna to the wires that are already in the wall. Don t miss a minute when you make your next snack run. The higher you can get the antenna either inside our outside of your home the better your tv reception will be. An astute reader asked me about grounding the antenna in the comments of the review.

The presence of a mounted satellite dish on the roof will actually be an advantage when it comes to getting started with an hdtv antenna. Since your home is already wired for a dish on the roof you can use the existing coax cable for the new antenna which eliminates the need to wire or rewire the house again. By far the most critical factor for tv antenna placement is height. If the cable modem is in a bedroom and the wire at the wall is split to provide tv and cable modem service then they will need to run a new wire directly to the cable modem.

For outdoor tv antennas the best locations are on your roof or garage. I inspected the wiring of my antenna with the intention of doing a write up on how it was grounded. Tv antenna positioning consideration 1 height. Now as i was replacing an existing outdoor antenna i simply hooked the antenna up to the already grounded coaxial cable coming off the roof.

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