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Old 20th September 2012, 01:35 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Well I've ordered one of those "phantom" aerial adapters from the guy in Leith.
Got a good price and ordered a pair so that I can (worst case) mess one up, or upgrade to a diversity tuner later if it works well.

Good price is partly because they have all been built so no options on connectors, if you don't want F-connectors (I don't) it's DIY to adapt appropriately (my tuner is SMA). I also think it's maybe "end of line" so reduced "to clear".

Meanwhile I have a question that hopefully someone can answer...
The tuner has 4 aerial connections, rather small. The seller said he thought they were SMB and his lead had those connectors on.
He wasn't sure why 4 though and thought maybe 2 were for the radio which seems a bit unlikely - isn't that a separate unit?
Can anyone clarify?

He also wasn't sure if they were "active" (powered) TV aerials in the D2. His leads do have the capability of passing +5V up them IF the tuner supplies it. My new DVB tuner doesn't but he sells some that do (optionally). Does anyone know the answer to that as well?

So, 2 questions that hopefully someone will know the answer(s) to:
Why 4 aerial connectors on the Analogue TV tuner and what are they?
Are the aerials "active" requiring a power supply up the aerial (usually 5V)?
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