How To Hook Up An Attic Antenna

To install a tv antenna in your attic you have to go into the attic.

How to hook up an attic antenna. Plug back in your tv and turn it on. Get a good tv antenna to install in your attic. The first step in connecting the antenna to the tv is first getting to the antenna. On top of a mast attached to the floor on a mast hanging from a wooden ceiling beam suspended from the ceiling via guy wires.

If yours is roof mounted you ll need to exercise some caution. It brings the television signal into your house. Attach that to the box at the jack labeled input. Unplug the coax from the street and plug in your antenna that is in the attic.

My attic access door. 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. Find the antenna port on the back of your tv then plug in the antenna and tighten the connector if possible. The first step is to connect the box to the cable.

Combining the antenna can be done using our uhf vhf combiner box. Uhf vhf combiner box. If you don t have enough space for this the antennas can be placed on separate masts. You should have a cable with an rf connector on the end that looks similar to the cable you used.

If you re using an extension cable connect the cable to the antenna as well as the tv s input port. Connect the antenna to the input port. Get into the attic. Go in your attic and locate where the coax cable coming from the street is getting split to go to the tv s.

The antenna i m using is the channel master 4221hd but i now. 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.