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Whole house antenna


 As a recent cord cutter living in close proximity to a metropolitan area, I enjoy over 40 HD channels for free.  Ok, well maybe I only enjoy about 8 of those channels and the others are not so good.   What I really use this for is local channel news and channel flipping. 

In any case, to be efficient, I wanted to only have 1 antenna power a TV signal to any coaxial jack in the house - so I searched the web looking for a good example of how to do this.  Unfortunately, google didn't show me what I was looking for, so I experimented on my own & I'm happy with the result.  

The challenge - how to use 1 antenna to feed an HD TV signal to all of the TV coaxial jacks in the house (except 1 that I hijack).

Here are some of the prerequisites for this project if you approach it my way.
  1. Have good coaxial cable throughout the house
  2. Have a centralized closet where the coaxial cables in the house all converge.
  3. Have an HD Antenna with the range you need for your location
  4. Have an amplified splitter with enough jacks to meet your connection needs. (you will need a power source to power the amplifier part)
  5. Your TV must have an HD Tuner.  Some older TVs don't and some new Vizio TVs don't.

Here is an illustration of what I went for.

Here are the steps I took to get this taken care of.  
  1. Get a good HD antenna hooked up in the attic and hijack a coaxial cable (that isn't being used) to feed the signal back to the wiring closet where all the coaxial cables converge.
  2. Get and amplified splitter and connect the hijacked coaxial cable to the 'input' jack , while connecting other house cables to the 'output' jacks - these would be the cables that lead to jacks where you have a TV you want to connect.
  3. Connect the corresponding jack to the TV input on your TV and run the the auto programming channel finder.  This should result in finding all the channels your location/antenna can provide to every jack in the house. 
Done - all TVs get the same channels.  
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