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Re: OTA antenna ground to Cox Cable Coaxial cable?
Aren't there rocks beneath your power meter? Somebody penetrated those rocks They put that pole in with the house before I got here with some heavy equipment I'm sure. No doubt it can be done but it's all much more than I expected. Then again I have no experience with antennas and house electricity in general. I just bought this $40 antenna at Walmart and noticed a sidenote about grounding. Since then I've read more and more bits and pieces as I try to figure out how to do it. Nearly all TV will be seen through streaming but there's 1 TV for an elderly person that needs to turn on with his channel from the antenna if he happens to turn the TV on himself. Usually someone else gets it going and can deal with Roku menus etc. Right now I've got the antenna inside (and it's sort of working for a few channels). There's another project needing an electrician so now the plan is to see if he can hook this antenna up outside. Thanks0Views0likes1CommentRe: OTA antenna ground to Cox Cable Coaxial cable?
By the way, thanks for your replies you clearly know tons more about this area than I do. "What outside pole...the public-utility pole? Your house has its own ground near your power meter. ". The pole I'm talking about is the small one with our power meter on it in our yard by the south side of the house. There's a ground wire at the bottom of it. Cox Cable's coaxial cable ground shield is connected to that ground wire. Their cable then goes the entire width of the carport and house into the north side of the house which is where I wanted to put the antenna. I didn't plan on putting it on top of the house by the way. I was going to put it midway up on the side of the house at the end of the porch. It needs to face that direction to pick up the channel I really need. So my options seem to be 1)run a very long ground wire (ca 150 feet) to the house ground by the electric meter. 2) Put the antenna close to the house ground on our pole and run a very long coaxial cable from it to the other side of the house (loosing signal) or 3) bury a ground rod (I guess horizontally) since there's no way I could penetrate the rock 2 feet below the surface.2Views0likes3CommentsRe: OTA antenna ground to Cox Cable Coaxial cable?
Where I live within 2 feet you hit rock so putting in one of those posts would be quite an undertaking. The house electronics are already grounded to that outside pole but an antenna needs to have it's own separate wire going the ground on that pole? For example, the Cox Cable internet/TV connection is grounded on that pole. Aren't they all still interconnected?8Views0likes5CommentsRe: OTA antenna ground to Cox Cable Coaxial cable?
Appreciate your answer. I had seen advice before but none said exactly by the power meter. I thought they meant near the main fuse boxes in the house. I found the ground connection there. The problem now is that it's exactly on the opposite side of the house and carport (in the middle of our yard) from where I wanted to put the antenna. Really only one TV is important for that antenna so I planned on putting it on a mid level porch near it. Unless I put the antenna on the roof the house will block the most important direction it needs to face. That would also be a much more complicated installation. Can I tap into other things connected to that ground or does it have to be a dedicated connection? Thanks32Views0likes7CommentsOTA antenna ground to Cox Cable Coaxial cable?
I am in the process of terminating my Cox cable TV but keeping Cox internet and Cox Phone. The coax enters the house where it splits to the cable modem and to the TVs. I am putting up an OTA antenna. In the box on the side of the house where the Cox Cable has it's connections (that then go into the house) it is written "grounded at pole". I have an OTA Antenna I will put up. It says it needs to be grounded. Can I use the same ground the Cox Cable was using by connecting to the Cox Coaxial Cable outside the house? Thanks6.7KViews0likes9Commentswatchtv.cox.com ABC,NBC,CBS,Fox broken last 2 days
There is a test pattern of seven colors for a bit then still pictures with some audio on all major networks, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. I tried on PC, phone and tablet. All have the same problem. The other channels behave normally. What is the problem here?1.4KViews0likes1CommentRe: Could insisting on a service call to add a Contour 2 box be more greedy?
Still ticked about the $75 fee to have the honor of paying Cox more rent on the DVR plus the fees as football season reaches it's peak. By the way The Contour Box 2 here allowed me to auto-tune HD for channel 9 but the most important one for old folks in this area is 5. For some reason it won't auto-tune HD for that one so one has to enter 2005. Last year we to had to swap the contour1 box we had for one of those old ones so he elderly person could just hit the one button.0Views0likes0Comments