How To Run A Roof Antenna

For outdoor tv antennas the best locations are on your roof or garage.

How to run a roof antenna.

An astute reader asked me about grounding the antenna in the comments of the review. 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. Or so i thought. By far the most critical factor for tv antenna placement is height.

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. Run the coaxial cable and grounding wire across your roof securing them along the way using a nail gun and insulated u clamp nails. Pause up to 90 minutes of live antenna tv when you connect a 16 gb or larger usb drive to your tv. 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.

More ways to watch. The higher you can get the antenna either inside our outside of your home the better your tv reception will be. 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. 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.

I inspected the wiring of my antenna with the intention of doing a write up on how it was grounded.