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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 51
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    Right, the type of plug you'll need (as I said before, but not with it's proper nam,e) is a "Belling Lee" plug, there are instructions HERE on how to wire one up with satellite cable, and personaly I don't solder it but I suppose it's to make a better connection.
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    ogglebox wrote:
    Right, the type of plug you'll need (as I said before, but not with it's proper nam,e) is a "Belling Lee" plug, there are instructions HERE on how to wire one up with satellite cable, and personaly I don't solder it but I suppose it's to make a better connection.

    The Belling Lee plug was designed (in 1923!) to be soldered.

    An unsoldered connector could have a 2dB of loss.

    3 connectors each at 2dB = 6dB loss & thats a quarter power (not a quarter lost but 3/4 lost!)
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    mrfreeview wrote:
    The Belling Lee plug was designed (in 1923!) to be soldered.

    An unsoldered connector could have a 2dB of loss.

    3 connectors each at 2dB = 6dB loss & thats a quarter power (not a quarter lost but 3/4 lost!)

    I only have 1 on the Aerial cable (that one was already fitted when I moved in, so I accept no responsibility as to how it was fitted!). :confused:

    Anyway, my freeview picture is ok, no pixelling at all, unlike my mum's Sony IDTV. :D
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