Originally Posted by irart  I have two TV's (one in the main bedroom, the other to the spare bedroom) running off of one aerial situated in my attic, just two cables connected directly to the aerial. No splitters involved at all. Why not try that first before investing in other equipment. |
It will work worse like that, if the splitter is not broken it will give less loss on each leg than simply shoving two wires together.
This is because connecting the wires together causes an impedance mismatch, with each wire suffering a loss of approx 10 dB, whereas with a splitter it will only be about 4dB.