We are planning to stay at Troutbeck Head caravan site this weekend, but the guide says it has a poor tv reception, but there is a tv point and booster on the electrical hookup bollard. This may sound daft, but does that mean we need to take a long length of tv ariel cable with normal tv plugs in order to use this facility, or can you borrow one?
Quote: Originally posted by Jeanann on 28/9/2006
I think you will need to take your own, unless this site is different than most
Ditto, even though you take your own it may still be bad
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Good idea to have your own anyway. Quite a few sites have these bollard connections but most do not provide a cable. However they will sell you one........at a price!
If you do need to get one of your own, be sure to buy a good quality 'double shielded' one as the cheaper 'unshielded' ones can pick up too much RF interference.
get youself a length of 'CT100' grade cable made up
We were at Meathop (Newby Bridge) recently - they charged £12 to buy a 25 metre TV cable.
I bought the cable and terminals myself at a local £££ shop for £5 and made one up - it worked brilliantly.
I've noticed that the next few C.C. sites we're booked at have poor reception, and have TV connection points on the bollards, so my £5 should show a healthy return!!!
As many of you thought. We needed a cable. Unfortunatly the lead I already had was about 4ft too short. They did sell 25m cables at the site for £25. Needless to say I popped in the car to the nearest B&Q and sorted the problem for £10, saving the price of a nights stay. TV was fine, and they even had channels for the local radio, as the radio reception was also non existant. A good weekend