Got a new (Cheap) Antenna for the TV but it has this type of connection it won't fit. What adapter do I need?

[sdifox]

Dumb question but can he just cut off the end plug & connect a plug that will work? Sounds too easy.

Yes he can.

 

[Spacehead]

I wouldn't do it till someone else chimes in.
I mean, you can buy a length of coax & put the connectors on after cutting to the length you need. Shouldn't be much different but it looks like that cord is smaller in diameter than coax.

 

[EpicSurvivor]

I wouldn't do it till someone else chimes in.
I mean, you can buy a length of coax & put the connectors on after cutting to the length you need. Shouldn't be much different but it looks like that cord is smaller in diameter than coax.

To be honest I just bought a new antenna from eBay that seems to have the normal coaxial connection for $7 with free shipping and free returns so I am pretty set for now but I wouldn't mind practicing and try to replace the old one with the correct coaxial cable. If someone can post a tutorial that would be great! would be nice to learn how to do it. Never done anything like this before.

 

[Spacehead]

https://www.wikihow.com/Connect-Coaxial-Cable-Connectors

Use your favorite search engine to look for "connecting coax cable connectors" or similar.

 

[EpicSurvivor]

https://www.wikihow.com/Connect-Coaxial-Cable-Connectors

wow that is very simple no soldering tools required. Thank you! might do this for fun and to learn something new one of these days.

 

[zinfamous]

wow that is very simple no soldering tools required. Thank you! might do this for fun and to learn something new one of these days.

skills I learned by the time I was 17 or so, and it was still relatively easy to get free cable and then, especially, internet, back before all digital. Move to a new apartment, previous TV/ISP never really cuts off signal. Just, most people are too lazy to check for TV and even so, don't realize that in those days, the TV was free if you just ordered internet. They never hooked up their damn TVs and fixed their own splitters.

That $75 service call to cut and crimp &5 worth of 20 feet of cable in those apartments sure was worth it! I still keep all that crap around, even though I barely have use for it....though I might want to get around to replacing/upgrading the feed from my roof antenna, one of these days.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Thank you but since I got the antenna for free and I been trying to get it working for 2 weeks I am just going to give up and buy a cheap different one. But thank you for the suggestion.

Yeah. That's the problem with a $10 antenna....if you didn't have a $20 crimp tool and connectors ($5), you can't easily replace the end.

If you know anybody that works for the cable company or see their truck in your neighborhood, approach them and ask them to put a connector on the antenna.

 

[sdifox]

or just cut off connector, strip to central conduit with an Xacto knife and stick it in the antenna port on tv

 

[EpicSurvivor]

or just cut off connector, strip to central conduit with an Xacto knife and stick it in the antenna port on tv

Right on. Thank you!

 

[Midgeypoo]

So I can't find an adaptor that's smaller than the normal one for tv antenna port at back of tv so if I cut the end off n strip it back to the wires I can then just shove those into the port?

 

[sdifox]

So I can't find an adaptor that's smaller than the normal one for tv antenna port at back of tv so if I cut the end off n strip it back to the wires I can then just shove those into the port?

Yeah, just insert slowly so you don't bend the center core. Assuming it is a coax cable and not straded wire.

 

[Midgeypoo]

Yeah, just insert slowly so you don't bend the center core. Assuming it is a coax cable and not straded wire.

Yep it's a coax cable and thanks I'll try that