Posted by Steph on 02/15/06 21:12

I can't imagine any professional doing such a bodge job.

If the cut end of the wire's within reach, you could patch in a new bit of
coax yourself to do what you want, but leaving it outside means it'll bang
around in the wind and break up pretty quickly, as well as being a hazard.
You need to check your post code on the Freeview website to see if digital
is available in your area, and if you need a special aerial.

"mo" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Dunno if anyone here might know anything that can help me.
>
> Currently we have 2 TV aerials on our roof - one goes to the main TV
> whilst the other one used to go to the dining room but is not in use
> anymore.
>
> For some reason the older aerial is still up but the wire that comes down
> has been cut off halfway down the house.... as it happens I have recently
> gotten a Digital TV card for my PC and cannot get any decent reception
> with indoor aerials.
>
> So I am thinking, maybe get someone out to fit a new cox ax wire from the
> aerial on the roof which he can then wire up so it hangs outside my room
> and so i can pull it in when needs be (dont need him to dril la hole and
> bring it in)
>
> Questions - anyone know how much I am looking to pay for this sort of
> job - and do these guys even come out for such minor jobs?
>
> We used a guy a couple of years back but that was to put up a new aerial
> and we paid him for the aerial and to wire it down all the way... I cannot
> see this one taking a huge amount of time...
>

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