How To Run A Roof Antenna

Since your home is already wired for a dish on the roof you can use the existing coax cable for the new antenna which eliminates the need to wire or rewire the house again.

How to run a roof antenna.

For outdoor tv antennas the best locations are on your roof or garage. Don t miss a minute when you make your next snack run. Now as i was replacing an existing outdoor antenna i simply hooked the antenna up to the already grounded coaxial cable coming off the roof. The presence of a mounted satellite dish on the roof will actually be an advantage when it comes to getting started with an hdtv antenna.

More ways to watch. Pause up to 90 minutes of live antenna tv when you connect a 16 gb or larger usb drive to your tv. In this case the home owner has no idea but they want to keep their internet and attach a roof antenna to the wires that are already in the wall. Run the coaxial cable and grounding wire across your roof securing them along the way using a nail gun and insulated u clamp nails.

If the cable modem is in a bedroom and the wire at the wall is split to provide tv and cable modem service then they will need to run a new wire directly to the cable modem. Tv antenna positioning consideration 1 height. I inspected the wiring of my antenna with the intention of doing a write up on how it was grounded. Or so i thought.

An astute reader asked me about grounding the antenna in the comments of the review.