My van has an Avtekx antenna seemingly serving both radio and tv. The radio works well.
The Tv worked well the first time of use but will now not tune. By trying the TV on my house antenna where it is ok, it seems to be a fault in the caravan antenna installation.
The whip antenna feeds down to a splitter in the bedbox from which two leads go presumably to the tow installed antenna connections - one at front and one at rear. Neither of these provide a tunable signal so presumably the fault is between the whip antenna and this splitter, or perhaps the splitter itself. Acess to the other connections is going to be quite difficult so I'm looking for any information as to how the overall system is connected, where the radio connection is likely to be made and any other useful tips on checking it out.
The connections on the splitter are of the type with a very fine central conductor rather than the older type tubular plug or socket and appear sound.
Other forums have quite a lot of correspondence about the Avtex antenna much of it unfavourable. Every other caravan i have bought has had poor connections to the (usually) Status antenna and I had hoped this one would be different.
If sorting the built in system is going to be time consuming and annoying I plan to be an old fashioned external antenna and support pole instead, but thought I would seek advice first.
The Tv worked well the first time of use but will now not tune. By trying the TV on my house antenna where it is ok, it seems to be a fault in the caravan antenna installation.
The whip antenna feeds down to a splitter in the bedbox from which two leads go presumably to the tow installed antenna connections - one at front and one at rear. Neither of these provide a tunable signal so presumably the fault is between the whip antenna and this splitter, or perhaps the splitter itself. Acess to the other connections is going to be quite difficult so I'm looking for any information as to how the overall system is connected, where the radio connection is likely to be made and any other useful tips on checking it out.
The connections on the splitter are of the type with a very fine central conductor rather than the older type tubular plug or socket and appear sound.
Other forums have quite a lot of correspondence about the Avtex antenna much of it unfavourable. Every other caravan i have bought has had poor connections to the (usually) Status antenna and I had hoped this one would be different.
If sorting the built in system is going to be time consuming and annoying I plan to be an old fashioned external antenna and support pole instead, but thought I would seek advice first.
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