TV Aerial theory

[Cockney_si]

This is an idea but not sure if it would work in practice.

On my main aerial; If I were to connect it to a signal booster and then to a transmitter antenna and put the antenna in a room then would a portable tv with a loop type aerial be able to pick up the 'boosted and transmitted' aerial signal ?

[rojash]

Can I just get the straight?

Your intention is to take your downlead,connect that to a booster, connect the booster to a transmitter, run a cable from the transmitter to the room where your portable is, connect an aerial, and retransmit the signal to the portable which will be adjacent to the transmitter aerial, and hence the cable that connects it.

If I have that correct, which why not run a cable from you original downlead to the portable, and plug it in?

[ACtheTROLL]

come on rojash .... that wouldn't be any fun at all!!! ;-P

running all that kit ... you'd also have a dimmer ... everytime you switched it on ... the lights would dim for miles around

Actually I have a friend who wanted to suspend a tv from the ceiling on chains ... the theory being he could lie flat with the telly suspended screen down above his head (honest!!)

chains were bought ... bolts were drilled into joists .... but he realised - no fixings on the telly for chains ....
so
he got a metal frame made to fit the front of the telly - screen down ...
then
then the mains and aerial leadd had to be run in the loft and poked down through a hole in the ceiling .... up he went onto the roof ... poked the lead between two tiles ... ran the wire in the loft
and
slipped and put his foot through the ceiling ....
a builder was called in to fix ... and of course then the room needed decorating
then came the switch on
he found that the remote sensor window was behind the frame .... so holes were drilled in the frame ....

after the best part of two months ... it was all in place and working .... then he discovered that when the wind blew from the west and it rained .... the roof leaked .....

He's hoping to see the tennis on it this summer ....

[pug100]

Its already been done. Such as these tv senders can be bought in Argos and have been around for 20 years or so. They use different frequencies than tv transmitters due to possible interference with other devices / tv installations.

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servl et/Search?storeId=10001&catalogId=1500001501&l angId=-1&searchTerms=tv+sender

[rojash]

Not quite the same thing Pug: an essential requirement of Cockney_si's plan is that the recieved signal is picked up by the existing loop aerial of the portable

[ChuckFickens]

It's a nice theory..

However even if it did work you'd get a horrible Picture as you would be rebroadcasting on the same frequency as the normal TV signal so unless the output from the booster and the TV signal where exactly synchronised the portable would be picking up two signals on the same frequency but slightly offset from each other.

[Cockney_si]

Rojash, the idea is for wireless transmission of tv signal to portable tv and so no need to connectd portable tv set via a lead.

Pug, I want to pick up aerial signals rather than watch the same as another tv is watching like a tv sender does.

Chuck I guess this may be a problem, how about if I were to do it without the booster and in theory use the nearest signal to the loop aerial which would be the one from the transmitter type arrangement.

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[rojash]

"the idea is for wireless transmission of tv signal to portable tv and so no need to connectd portable tv set via a lead"

Yes I understood that. Sorry, but it just struck me as a very Heath Robinson proposal - and it ain't gonna work; at least not as it stands.