How do you hook up a large old antenna on the roof to your television?
I live on Long Island and can no longer afford cable for my TV. There is an old large antenna on the roof. I went in the attic and thought there would be a wire of some sort hanging down thru the roof where the antenna is but there was nothing. How do I start and how do I connect it up to a converter box. I have a SONY tv that is 7 years old and have always used cable so I don’t even know where to start. Any suggestions?
It is not really worth the expence, time and danger. First if the antenna is old the screws where you would attach the twin lead 300ohm (old style) flat wire will most likely be rusted solid and brake off. Those old antennas where not made very well! Messing with and old one could be an accident waiting to happen. The 300ohm wire will not be cheap either when you have to buy 50 or 100 feet. Then you will need the Digital Converter box that they are giving out the coupons for. You will need that anyway no matter what. You will also need and adapter to go from the old 300ohm wire to the 75ohm coaxial. Any Radio Shack will help you with this.
If I where you a company called “TERK” makes a nice line of what you might call “rabbit ears” but they are much more technology advanced. Forget about that accident waiting to happen on the roof, print this out and show it to the sales person in Radio Shack.
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