TV booster cable .
Need some advice please .
Off tomorrow on a 11 day 4 site trip visiting family first stop Huntersmoon site .
The other 3 sites are CLs , this will only be our second stay on a club site in 15 years .
We are adviced that we will need a TV booster , and told 25 mtrs is usefull , they don't keep them for hire or sale , so its coax cable and what plugs a male and a female ?
Thanks
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What are you going to do on the other 3 sites? (I assume TV is essential?)
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A bit confused, do you need a TV booster (signal) or a cable or both. I bought a TV booster from Boyes and made my own TV cable and fly leads up. Best to buy top quality cable and connecters mind. Some Booster units need the screw on connecters
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Yes ET, a bit confusing talks of ''TV booster, and told 25 metre cable...''
This one from Wilko is similar but mine has two outputs.
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It depends on the site. Some sites that might be in a valley don't get a signal so a booster has nothing to boost. These sites then have their own aerial & have an aerial socket on the post ..... same as you would have at home. You'd then use your 25m cable between the post & the back of your telly.
Caravans usually have their own booster for use with its own aerial.
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Never had to use a 'booster' Just a length of co-ax (25m) and the right plugs on the end. As has been said some bollars are co-ax, some are F-type. Likewise, check what is need on your van. My Lunar is F-type as its intended to be used with external sat dishes.
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You will not need a booster on a club site as the signal is already "boosted via the site tv system ,but you will need a coax lead with a male plug each end one end plugs into the EHU bollard and the other directly into your Tv via a "window?"wrote is recommended it being the same length as most EHU leads,do not go via the van booster or use an in line booster as will not work,you will need to do a retune on the tv once plugged in to the site system
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I've been on several C&MC sites where there is no TV point on the bollard so signal has to be from your own aerial, a few of these sites have also been in poor signal areas where a booster was also required. You will also need to note if it's horizontal or vertical polarisation of the aerial too!
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Have just looked at the web page for Hunters Moon and it appears you will only need the 25m cable and not the booster you mentioned at this site. Be aware that at other sites you may need your own aerial, cable and booster mind. It's best to check, hope this and contributions from others help.
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Hunters Moon must be practically line of sight to the IOW transmitter.
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Not that I will use Huntersmoon, but literally the other side of the road at Birchwood I get an excellent TV signal from Rowridge IOW using the van's Status directional aerial. So no cable needed there and probably no facility to use one at most CLs.
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It is 36 miles from the transmitter though. So I don't suppose it would take much to block it, and Huntersmoon is on a slightly different line. The site details leaflet does say TV reception is poor, and that a service is available on the bollard.
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i cannot understand the manufacturers on this one, they fit a connection in the battery box for sky tv but don't fit a standard coax connection for a standard tv aerial so we have to thread it through the window. WOW, brainwave-could the sky ones be taken out and changed to the "normal" ones. your thoughts please.
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You can readily buy adaptors to convert each way between coax and the so-called "F" connections so can use whatever coax cables are integrated into the van build.
Just be alert to the "gender" of the adaptors you need. You might need to buy female to female or male to male "F" couplers, these are sold by Screwfix etc.
One of the many sources is B&Q;
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As with Molly'sMummy, My Coachman has two TV inlet sockets in the Battery box adjacent to the mains inlet connector. One TV socket is for a satellite cable and the other for the Co-AX cable from an EHU.
That excellent arrangement overcomes the need to run a cable through a window opening.
TF
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The same on my Elddis, in the battery box below the EHU point there is TV , Sat dish and a Solar panel connection
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You can make life very easy with a bit of thought.
You need to find somewhere to bring the cable into the van. If your TV sits over your battery box or you can run a cable from the battery box to the TV location under seats/cupboards it is easy. Toddle down to Screwfix and buy a 25m reel of PF100 cable, a bag of TV aerial plugs, a bag of F-type plugs, and a bag of F-type back-to-back sockets.*
Drill a 9mm hole in the side of the battery box adjacent to and above the height of the mains connector. *If you have no other need for back-to-backs then you may do better to buy a pair from Maplins or B&Q and get the type with a fixing nut. Its a pain but a pack of two may cost you as much or even more than a pack of ten from Screwfix but those don't have fixings.
Fit a back-to-back in the hole and screw it tight. Inside the caravan make up a cable that will reach easily from the connector on the battery box to the TV and install it. Terminate one end in an F-type plug and screw it to the bulkhead adapter. Terminate the other end in a TV plug (known as a Belling-Lee plug) and plug it into your TV.
Outside terminate the remainder of the cable with a F-type on one end to connect inside the battery box and put a TV plug on the other end to connect to the power pillar.
You will be able to find details of how to make up the plugs on line very easily.
Note: it is a good idea to run your TV cable and power cable round the far side of the power pillar before connecting, then if you or anyone else trips over it it will not pull the cable out of the plug or the plug out of the socket. If the TV connection on the pillar is exposed put a plastic bag over it to protect it from rain.
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