I have never been able to get my shore TV antenna connection to work on cable since I have had the boat so last night I decided to dig into it. I brought home from work our cable tester and started checking the cables, and when I plugged into the one for the shore connection the tester told me it was an “active cable”…. Well that should not be. The next step was to pull out the Glomux switch / amplifier and check those connections. Well after 3 hours of trouble shooting the switch I finally found the problem. The switch has three input cables, one from the shore connection, and one from the Glomux antenna on the arch, and the one in the middle goes out to the TV’s. Well the one from the shore connection was on the middle post which is supposed to be out to the TV’s and the one that when out to the TV’s was on the shore connection post…. Reversed! Now the TV’s did work with the Glomux antenna in that configuration, but of course shore connection did not.
I corrected the wiring and was amazed when I rescanned my channels on the TV using just the Glomux antenna with the gain all the way up. It picked up 18 channels. I then tested my shore connection by plugging that into an antenna and rescanning…. All worked great.
I corrected the wiring and was amazed when I rescanned my channels on the TV using just the Glomux antenna with the gain all the way up. It picked up 18 channels. I then tested my shore connection by plugging that into an antenna and rescanning…. All worked great.