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an antenna has coaxial connection to go to your tv from the antenna... it looks like a barrel. If it is a powered antenna it will also have a cord to be connected to power in some way (usb, ac wall plug etc) that needs to be plugged in often as most those antennas do not pick up anything until you plug them in but that depends on location and a bunch of other stuff. good luck https://www.6ya.com/mr.mike
Easy. First put up a good outside or wall antenna. Then run a coax cable (not flat lead wire) from the antenna to the tv. To do this you need to get a "balum" to go from the antenna to the coax wire. It's a small plastic 'transformer' (( about the size of your pinky finger)). The other end of the coax wire should have an 'F' connector put on it so it can screw into the F connection on the back of the tv set. Then get your remote and go to the input of your tv and change it to antenna input. Then do a channel scan. Let it finish scanning and it will let you know how many channels it picked up. If you're in a big city then you may pick up as many as 100 or more channels. If you're in the country, you may only pick up about 5 channels! If you need more channels then go back to Home Depot or Lowes and get an 'antenna amplifier'. Hopefully one that has about 25db gain. Most only have about 10db gain but the higher the number the better. It should be put inline between the tv and the antenna so you'll need another coax cable for the amplifier to the tv. The wire that comes from the antenna goes directly to the 'input' of the amplifier. Then from the 'output' of it to the tv. You'll love it once it's done and it's cheaper than cable or any other paid service!
Bear in mind that the splashback will be with you for a fairly long time, so pick a colour that will last and not bore you. Also if the splashback goes behind the hob make sure that you pick a shade which won't show grease marks too easily. As far as the wall colour is concerned, pick something that will tone with the splashback but is maybe a couple of shades darker. You can always change the wall colour in a year or so if you want to.
i think the 'front end fet' or channel fet has failed
this amplifies the incomming antenna signal
however is the center pin of the antenna plug on the tv loose
inside the tv is a metal box this is attached too
it changed the UHF signals to a lower frequency range called an IF
the UHF signals are normaly have a path like this
antenna>>safety >>>amp>>mixeramp>>output to DTV decoder etc
the amp bit or connection to the tv is wrong
as its working quite well and gets like 2 channels
look inside the socket on the tv and examine it carefully for any bits of wire
or as i say loose connections
may just need to be soldered inside the can to reconnect the center pin
it will still give like 2 3 channels as the gap caused by the bad solder joint
will still allow some RF accross
so... its either a gubbed UHF RF amp or a broken connection or a short ... so...
No.Tv can't pick up any reception or receive any free AIR broadcasting tv channels at all if tv have no antena hook up to a tv.Buy a better antena design to used like a Digital atenna,will solved this problems.
you didn't say what kind of antenna you have attached to the TV. The antenna is very important and the type of antenna you need is based on where you are in relationship to the television stations in your area. Even being down a hill In the area can be a problem for antenna television. I had to put an antenna in my attic because an in-door antenna could not pick up the signals for the TV stations in my area, I am down a hill.
Your TV is old enough to have not only screw terminals for the antenna, but it sounds like it has separate UHF and VHF terminals as well. Pick up a 75-ohm to 300-ohm adapter (available at Radio Shack and probably most other places that sell TV's and antennas). This is a small cylinder-shaped part with a threaded antenna connector on one end, and a flat wire with two terminals on the other end. Connect the cable from the converter box to the round connector, hook the two terminals to the VHF antenna screws on your TV, put the TV on channel 3 and you'll be set.
You should also pick up a new antenna designed to work with digital broadcasting. If you use the old rabbit ears you were using before, you will probably not pick up all the channels available in your area.
To change between cable and antenna on your TV, Press Home to display the "XMB" menu. pick "settings" on the menu then pick "channel" on the next menu under channel settings, select "on" for cable and "off" for antenna TV.
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