Quick and to the point on how to make a screw on F connector for Sky, satellite and numerous aerial connections, including tolls that are needed. Visit www.smartaeria... for more great info.
Perfect tutorial. You've successfully taught me how to refit our coax aerial and get our TV working again today 👍 Thank you kindly Tom. Helen in Lancashire.
Great little video, i was not too sure if a Sky cable was the same as a standard coax cable, wanted to confirm connecting, before cutting off the old connectors !
Thanks for this video, I love how it was clear and straight to the point, no faffing around. I had to remove my f connectors to move my sky box and one got a little bent so I straightened it back out but now it wont work. When I plug it in nothing happens, any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Thank you, yes that was the idea. No point doing a DIY video if it meant that you had to order some special equipment off the internet. Please subscribe to our channel. Tom
Thanks! Useful! Showed me that the outside tiny wires need to NOT touch the central core. Maybe even more useful if the action had always remained in shot? But I managed to make the tv aerial work because watched this. Thank you!
Still relevant today, many thanks . Don't suppose you could show how you can link 2 cables to the one source cable? Trying to hide an extension cables behind a skirting board
Top man. Been having a nightmare with these connectors and this makes it look a doddle. Look at an F connector and there's like a tube within a tube which I thought the screen has to go round, virtually impossible, and I'm handy, can change a scooter engine no probs. Thanks for the tutorial, nice one. I feel like a pr..
You're welcome, you have have a crimp on style F plug is there is a tube within a tube, need a special type of tool to terminate them. We all have our skills, I'm useless with vehicles! Tom
Thanks James. This is a screw on connector and as long as they are installed correctly they are fine for domestic use, but some installers disagree with this. There are other types like a crimp-on style F plug and compression type which require specialist tools to install. Hope this helps, please subscribe to our channel. Tom
Thankyou! You got straight to the point, with easy instructions for twits like me! Managed to fix my sky connector problem in minutes (well maybe a bit longer 😂)
Some of the factory fly-leads really are appalling. I went to a call out last week where a it wasn't working and found it to be a newly purchased flylead that was at fault.
My upstairs box (the wire is threaded through the house ) the wire detached and the metal parts are left in the box. Is this a live wire ? Can I do this on the wire? And the other wire touched the Centre wire does that mean it’s useless or will it work If connected once they aren’t touching when put in ?
Hi Myles and thank you, about a cm is fine, but you may want to cut a bit more as this will give you more play. Can always trim down the excess at the end.
Hi - I’m trying to connect an aerial cable to a Manhattan Freeview box. Cable is ‘cable con 4.9’ I think it’s an F connect as it has the hexagon screw on it. I need to plug that into a IEC-169-2 Female (Pal) but currently the cable doesn’t fit in. Is there an adaptor or something to fix this issue?
Great video thanks! Is it essential the f connector is screwed on to the folded down copper strands? If not can you just cut them away before installing the F connector? I ask as my F connector does not screw on to the plastic itself and therefore does not get to the outer plastic but screws into the white foam instead. RG6 CT100 cable with F connectors. Thanks!
Im constantly getting a No signal message from my sky Q and have to re-boot to get it working. The arial cable IS lose and probably needs refitting like shown, however after re-booting why would it always work if the cable can pull out easily?
the two white cables that come out of the sky box , are they the same type of cable with two different jobs or different types of cable ( asking for a friend ) 😉
Hi, i have a question My TV has female antenna-in port (it's name on the internet is belling lee or sth like that), can i connect this cable to it with the F connector and adapter that will change it into male antenna-in ? And if so, which connections will i be receiving ? satellite or aerial or both ?
My f connector is too big for my cable so just used electrical tape around the cable and f connector to clamp it together, seems to have done the job 😂😂
TOM, how do I transfer a twin sky lead that I have into one? I need to put into the back of TV but I can't as there are two leads. I can't change the lead to one as it's through the wall. But the other single sky leads worked fine but this twin lead I can't seem to work out?
HI Lorna. If you have a twin lead you can just connect one the cables. It doesn't matter if you leave one disconnected. Unless you have Sky Q. Have you just moved to a new property or something?
How about how to remove the Sky Q connectors and replace them, I need to thread my cable through the wall to the new spot for decorating. But if I let a Sky engineer doing it is going to cost me time with two visits and £120! I could do it before like you showed in this video but the Q box hasn't got an F-connector.
The main Sky Q box does use F connectors, it may just be that you have the smaller shotgun cable. The plugs are made off the same way but you would just need smaller F plugs if this is the case. (65 type). If it is a secondary Sky Q box this may be a network cable that you're referring to. Can you please confirm?
Yes you can do this.You should be OK but important to know that you will lose a bit of signal through the splitter. If after you have installed it and reception is not as good as it was, you might need to add an amplifier to the system. Tom
I suggest switching to FREESAT, which uses the sky dish, exactly as it is.. Humax make a range of receivers and recorders... and most channels have free HD optionstoo.
On virgin media, Is the co-axial cable the cable that is connected from outside, that they drill a hole through the outside wall of the house, to put the cable through, then connect it to the box on the wall? Or the cable that connects the box on the wall to the main hub
