So I've got a big 3-foot antenna (not powered or anything) that I'm going to mount in my attic but in the mean time, I just have it in a spare room near a window. When I hooked this guy up, it rocked and I could get great HDTV OTA reception. However, after a couple weeks, the reception ended up being crap (permanently over a period of weeks). I couldn't figure out what had happened and almost blew it off as, "Well, maybe I was just lucky".
However, I did try one last-ditch effort and moved the antenna to another room. Well, what do you know, it worked great! I move it back to the former room, works like crap. Back to the new room, it works great! I whip out a little cheapo antenna to test with it too and I found identical results! Even it could get pretty decent (though not good enough) reception in the new room but not the old room. Well, I figured maybe I was messing around with something and broke a connection in a cable or something.
Well, just a few weeks later, I'm back at the same point! Now the antenna doesn't work in the second room but bringing it to a third room does! And this time I'm 200% certain I didn't make any changes myself.
So what am I doing that keeps messing this up?
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Just more info as I'm sure it may or may not be relavant. My house has coax ran all through it with a junction box (is that what they're called?) in the garage. Whenever I hook the antenna up in a room, I reroute these coax cables so there is a direct connection between the antenna and my HTPC (I don't care about this signal in other rooms for now - I may later but I have bigger problems for now). I have tried re-terminating these cables at the junction box without luck so it's somewhere in the house or up in the room where the cable is going bad.
HELP!!!
-Jax
However, I did try one last-ditch effort and moved the antenna to another room. Well, what do you know, it worked great! I move it back to the former room, works like crap. Back to the new room, it works great! I whip out a little cheapo antenna to test with it too and I found identical results! Even it could get pretty decent (though not good enough) reception in the new room but not the old room. Well, I figured maybe I was messing around with something and broke a connection in a cable or something.
Well, just a few weeks later, I'm back at the same point! Now the antenna doesn't work in the second room but bringing it to a third room does! And this time I'm 200% certain I didn't make any changes myself.
So what am I doing that keeps messing this up?
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Just more info as I'm sure it may or may not be relavant. My house has coax ran all through it with a junction box (is that what they're called?) in the garage. Whenever I hook the antenna up in a room, I reroute these coax cables so there is a direct connection between the antenna and my HTPC (I don't care about this signal in other rooms for now - I may later but I have bigger problems for now). I have tried re-terminating these cables at the junction box without luck so it's somewhere in the house or up in the room where the cable is going bad.
HELP!!!
-Jax
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