We would like to cancel Xfinity TV at my Mom's house. She has coax cables throughout her house. I bought a Mohu Leaf antenna to attach to the window to view local TV. I understand that the Leaf should be placed in a south facing window. The TV is in the north side of the house. I wanted to use the existing cable setup throughout the house to attach the Leaf to the south window and then to Mom's TV. Can this be done? If not does anyone have other suggestions on how to make this work?
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Yes, you can use the existing coaxial cables to connect your antenna to the TV.
Ideally you want a cable that goes directly from where your antenna will be over to where the TV is, but you could use a barrel connector to join 2 cables together elsewhere if necessary. It's important to use high quality connectors and try to keep the cable as short as possible.
Mohu Leaf has amplifiers available to boost the signal, which will help with reception if you have to use long cables. The cable included with some of the amplified Leaf antennae I found is 16 feet, as a baseline.
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The instructions for the Mohu Leaf say to connect the coax cable from the antenna to the "ANT IN" (antenna in?) of the TV then switch the TV input to "Antenna" or "Air" mode.
That sounds like good ol' TV reception to me. In-house coax was able to do that back in the day, to get the antenna signals to the TV wherever it was.
You may need to hunt through the coax cables in your house to remove splitters in the line going from the cable at the antenna to the cable at the TV and replace them with one-cable-to-one-cable couplers, so the signal doesn't degrade going off to other rooms. Or the antenna may work just fine with your in-house coax as is.
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