How To Hook Up An Attic Antenna

Attach that to the box at the jack labeled input.

How to hook up an attic antenna.

Get a good tv antenna to install in your attic. To install a tv antenna in your attic you have to go into the attic. You should have a cable with an rf connector on the end that looks similar to the cable you used. Connect the antenna to the input port.

Go in your attic and locate where the coax cable coming from the street is getting split to go to the tv s. Plug back in your tv and turn it on. Unplug the coax from the street and plug in your antenna that is in the attic. Tiny attic spaces offer many ways to mount an antenna with people sometimes mounting theirs.

This will be necessary to prevent overlap between the two antennas. Combining the antenna can be done using our uhf vhf combiner box. If yours is roof mounted you ll need to exercise some caution. The antenna i m using is the channel master 4221hd but i now.

Attic mounted antennas like ours are considerably easier to get at but our attic doesn t have floorboards so walking over to the antenna proved to be a delicate maneuver. My attic access door. Find the antenna port on the back of your tv then plug in the antenna and tighten the connector if possible. If you re using an extension cable connect the cable to the antenna as well as the tv s input port.

Uhf vhf combiner box. If you don t have enough space for this the antennas can be placed on separate masts. I created this video because it is very hard to find comprehensive detail on how to install an over the air tv antenna with pre amp and powered splitter. Get into the attic.

It brings the television signal into your house. The first step is to connect the box to the cable.