Aerial cable confusion

May 24th, 2006 - 17:39 | 5 comments

Could somebody do me a favour? Could you possibly check the aerial cable that goes from the wall socket to the television, and tell me whether the ends are male/female/both? I bought an double-shielded male->female aerial cable to try to fix some signal interruptions I’ve been getting with the new Freeview box, but I apparently need a male connector at both ends. The only adapter I have converts male -> female, so is no use at all. I don’t know whether the problem is that I bought a weird cable by mistake, the wall socket here is of the wrong gender, or something else, but I’m terribly confused…

Update: I’m told that normal cables are male->male, so it looks like it was just me buying the wrong type. Bit mean of it to say ‘aerial cable’ on the packet, mind.

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5 Responses to “Aerial cable confusion”

1 Nod May 24th, 2006 at 8:29 pm

Usually come with an adaptor tho which would be male:male to insert into the female to make the entire lead male:male only pennies from matalan
2 Skuds May 24th, 2006 at 11:18 pm

Hang on to what you have though. It sounds like you have an aerial extension cable, which might come in handy one day after a furniture (or house) move leaves the TV or radio too far away from where it should be.
3 Nod May 25th, 2006 at 3:56 pm

Plus i think i have a spare adapter if you can wait.
4 Cabling May 27th, 2006 at 8:35 am

Sockets on the equipment are always female. So, your interconnect cable has to be male-to-male all the time.
5 Andrew May 27th, 2006 at 3:25 pm

Cool - thanks for the info!

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