Thank you for solving a frustrating mystery for me. Many years ago I picked up a couple of those combiners but I never knew what they were. I have a TV in one of the bedrooms that has one of those cheap flat style antennas that picks up only UHF channels. It is a spare bedroom and I just wanted some kind of programming and with a signal amplifier it picked up 48 stations which was pretty good because the other TVs that are hooked up to a different antenna get 59 stations. After you explained that the piece was a combiner and how it worked it gave me an idea. I have an old set of rabbit ears and an adaptor that turns the old flat cable into a coax connector. I connected the rabbit ears to the low side and the antenna to the high side and I now get 57 channels. The only station it does not receive is a low powered station from a nearby city that I can only receive at night anyway. The other commenter is correct that my combiner is a VHF splitter (AKSA HLSJ) but all I know is it works well enough that it brings in the stations that were missing on this TV that the other TVs were receiving and since it is not used very often I don't see the need for purchasing the correct combiner although I will keep it in mind and if I find the correct combiner in my travels I'll pick it up. Many thanks to you and the other commenter.
That combiner is a VHF com biner. The low side is for an antenna cut for low dand 2 thru 6 and the high side is for a cut channel or 7 thru 13 high band Vhf. You should be using for this application a uvsj uhf/vhf combiner. Tru-spec and aska makes them.
Hi John, Thanks for watching and commenting. The combiner I was using was purchased from solid signal and is ZUVSJ Blonder Tongue. ZUVSJ is specified as a UHV/VHF combiner/separator. I was using ZUVSJ as a UHF separator/filter. You can get a ZHLSJ Blonder Tongue which is specified as a Low VHF and High VHF combiner/separator.
Thank you for solving a frustrating mystery for me. Many years ago I picked up a couple of those combiners but I never knew what they were. I have a TV in one of the bedrooms that has one of those cheap flat style antennas that picks up only UHF channels. It is a spare bedroom and I just wanted some kind of programming and with a signal amplifier it picked up 48 stations which was pretty good because the other TVs that are hooked up to a different antenna get 59 stations. After you explained that the piece was a combiner and how it worked it gave me an idea. I have an old set of rabbit ears and an adaptor that turns the old flat cable into a coax connector. I connected the rabbit ears to the low side and the antenna to the high side and I now get 57 channels. The only station it does not receive is a low powered station from a nearby city that I can only receive at night anyway. The other commenter is correct that my combiner is a VHF splitter (AKSA HLSJ) but all I know is it works well enough that it brings in the stations that were missing on this TV that the other TVs were receiving and since it is not used very often I don't see the need for purchasing the correct combiner although I will keep it in mind and if I find the correct combiner in my travels I'll pick it up. Many thanks to you and the other commenter.
That combiner is a VHF com biner. The low side is for an antenna cut for low dand 2 thru 6 and the high side is for a cut channel or 7 thru 13 high band Vhf. You should be using for this application a uvsj uhf/vhf combiner. Tru-spec and aska makes them.
Hi John,
Thanks for watching and commenting.
The combiner I was using was purchased from solid signal and is ZUVSJ Blonder Tongue. ZUVSJ is specified as a UHV/VHF combiner/separator. I was using ZUVSJ as a UHF separator/filter.
You can get a ZHLSJ Blonder Tongue which is specified as a Low VHF and High VHF combiner/separator.