Digital TV & 300 ohm ribbon cable

[pivo]

Hi all,

My apartment is 30 years old and has an old antenna on the roof that feeds 300 ohm ribbon cable through the walls to input slots. I have put a 75ohm converter on the cable and feed that into my tv.

My question is, can this set up adequetly pick up digital tv signals? Or would buying a set top box be a waste of money?

Installing a new antenna would be a logistical nightmare because of the way the apartment building is structured.

Thanks for any replies.

[ministry]

Hi all,

My apartment is 30 years old and has an old antenna on the roof that feeds 300 ohm ribbon cable through the walls to input slots. I have put a 75ohm converter on the cable and feed that into my tv.

My question is, can this set up adequetly pick up digital tv signals? Or would buying a set top box be a waste of money?

Installing a new antenna would be a logistical nightmare because of the way the apartment building is structured.

Thanks for any replies.

You won't have much chance picking up a signal. You really need rg6 duo or quadshield, plus a more recent antenna to pick up digital. You would be better off with a set of rabbit ears.

> You won't have much chance picking up a signal. You really need rg6 duo
> or quadshield, plus a more recent antenna to pick up digital.
>
> You would be better off with a set of rabbit ears.

Depending on where you are, rabbit ears could do the trick. In
my current location I 'am' using rabbit ears. At my previous
place all I could get on rabbit ears was SBS.

[Gilgamesh]

"ministry" <ministry.1ru4vq@no-mx.forums.eyo.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> pivo Wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My apartment is 30 years old and has an old antenna on the roof that
>> feeds 300 ohm ribbon cable through the walls to input slots. I have put
>> a 75ohm converter on the cable and feed that into my tv.
>>
>> My question is, can this set up adequetly pick up digital tv signals?
>> Or would buying a set top box be a waste of money?
>>
>> Installing a new antenna would be a logistical nightmare because of the
>> way the apartment building is structured.
>>
>> Thanks for any replies.
>
> You won't have much chance picking up a signal. You really need rg6 duo
> or quadshield, plus a more recent antenna to pick up digital.

Absolute Crap.
I get 97% signal strength with a set of rabbit ears.

To the OP - See if you can get a money back guarantee if you can't get a
signal. Or if you have a friend with a STB see about borrowing it to test.

>You would
> be better off with a set of rabbit ears.
>
>
> --
> ministry