Roof antenna could not be very helpful in your case, but you can buy an active antenna or place the current one near a window. As for the antenna connector, you can buy a cheap adapter; I bought this one: http://www.dx.com/p/lwj-023-mcx-male-to-tv-female-antenna-adapter-cable-black-17-5cm-207418
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm asking here since I saw that quiet a few members here mentioned using > things like this in the past. > > I bought a USB DVB dongle for my Cubox-I running OpenELEC (here is the > item on ebay: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/251537079924) and although it's > well supported and the kernel recognises it without a hitch, scanning for > channels (both through tvheadend and command line w_scan) can't lock on any > channels. > > I live less than 2 km from the antennas which broadcast to all of Sydney > (~80km radius service area). > > According to the instructions at http://baratel.com/guides/mythTV.htm, > the internal antenna which comes with such dongles is worthless for more > than 500m. > > But the antenna input socket is not the standard wide one (e.g. like the > one you can see in this wikipedia image: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_cable#mediaviewer/File:N_Connector.jpg) > but something that looks like 1 mm headphone jack with an itsy bitsy hole > in the middle. > > Does anyone know how can I extend the reception for this baby? > > I think of two main options: > > 1. Connect it to "normal"/"common" coaxial wall socket, so I can take > advantage of the antenna on the roof. > 2. Buy a bigger internal antenna which can connect to this weird jack. > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > --Amos > -- > <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- Tomer Cohen http://tomercohen.com
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