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Re: Strange cable wall jack in home. What is it? (pics included) by lthenderson Fri Apr 21, 2017 6:25 pm I've seen those before in old apartment buildings that shared antenna/cable systems for your television. They are wired in series and the resistors create an isolated drop for your apartment.

TV antenna connection. The wire going down probably goes to another condo. These systems many times would have an amplifier and antenna on the roof.

Both may have been disconnected when cable TV came along? I have an antenna and amplifier. I turn the amplifier off when not in use and I don't receive a thing. Your connection was for when TV antenna wire used to look like this.

Yes on the former, no on the latter. Wall plate TV antenna jacks, as I recall, had 3 holes for 300 ohm twin-lead (before coax and F connectors became the standard), but there would often be a second set of 4 or 5 holes on the plate that served as a jack for the antenna rotor control cable. What type of jack used to be used for TV antennas around 40 years ago? I started setting up converter boxes in an older nursing home, some of the TV's are not getting good reception with just the rabbit ears.

The rooms are wired with a common antenna to a female jack/receptacle in each room. How. We used it all the time in TV antenna installations back in the 60's, and when running it down the side of houses/apartments the rule was to leave a few twists in it to prevent ghosts.

Came across this strange receptacle today on an inspection and thought it was probably related to an old antenna system. I tried doing some research to find a similar picture, but didn't find anything. The closest thing that I came across was a similar connector for an old TV tube brightener, but it had 12 pins.

Anyone ever see one of these before? Hi, I live in a 44 year old apartment building in Manhattan. I'm currently doing renovations and I've removed an old, dented, paint-encrusted TV antenna wall jack from the living room.

I'd like to replace it with its modern equivalent so I can use the building's roof antenna for HDTV and FM radio reception. The picture of an old antenna outlet on the wall. What is attached to the back, 300 ohm antenna wire? Most TV antennas cover the FM band, but are usually pretty directional.

It is part of a "loop" distribution system of an old master antenna system. If you are in a high rise, the antenna signal "loops" from floor to floor, "bleeding" off a little at each floor.