TV Aerial Flylead 3 m — PAL Male to Male, RG6 Quad Shield, 75Ω
A 3 metre TV aerial lead with a standard PAL (Belling-Lee) male plug at both ends. This is the ordinary wall-plate-to-television cable, in a length that actually reaches: the 1.5 m lead in the set-top box carton is fine when the aerial point is directly behind the cabinet and useless the moment the television moves across the room, gets wall-mounted, or ends up on the far side of a bay window.
Check compatibility
Three things worth checking before you order. First, this is a cable, not an adaptor — a number of the cheapest “PAL male to male” listings are a bare barrel connector with no lead, which is why some of them look so cheap. Second, both ends are plugs; if what you want is to make an aerial lead you already own longer, you need a socket on one end, and that is our male-to-female extension lead instead. Third, both ends are straight — if you need the connection turned through 90° at the back of a wall-mounted set, that is our right-angle flylead.
Check these alternatives
Adding length to an existing aerial lead? See our 1.8 m PAL male-to-female extension instead. A plug at one end and socket at the other extends a matching male-ended cable.
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Key product details
- Runs straight from the wall plate to the television — a standard PAL plug on both ends, which is the connection almost every Australian TV, set-top box and PVR uses
- 3 metres long — enough to cross a room, come down from a wall-mounted set, or reach an aerial point that ended up on the wrong side of the lounge
- PAL (Belling-Lee) male plug to PAL male plug, nickel-plated, straight at both ends
- 75Ω RG6 quad-shield coaxial cable — four layers of shielding rather than the single shield used on the thin flylead usually supplied with a set
- Thicker RG6 jacket, so it holds a gentle curve across a 3 m run instead of kinking behind the cabinet
- Moulded strain relief at both ends, so the cable flexes at the boot instead of at the solder joint
- Works with any digital TV, set-top box, PVR, DVD recorder or FM/DAB tuner using a standard PAL aerial connection
- Completely passive — no power, no amplifier, no configuration, nothing to set up
- This is a cable, not an adaptor — several of the cheapest “PAL male to male” listings are a bare barrel connector with no lead at all
- Both ends are plugs — this will not extend an aerial lead you already own, because there is no socket for the existing lead to go into
- Both ends are straight — there is no right-angle plug on this lead
- Black — the colour that disappears behind a set, and the jacket is printed so you can identify the cable later without tracing it back to the wall
About this item
The cable is 75Ω RG6, quad shielded — a step up from the thin 3C-2V single-shield flylead most televisions are supplied with, with four shielding layers around the centre conductor instead of one. Over a 3 m run that matters most where the cable passes near mains wiring, a power board or a router, which on a typical TV wall it usually does. It is also a heavier cable, so it holds a gentle curve behind a set instead of taking a sharp kink at the plug.
We are not going to oversell it: digital free-to-air either decodes or it does not, and a passive cable amplifies nothing. If your reception is marginal the fix is the antenna or an amplifier, not a lead. What this gives you is 3 m of reach without making the cable the weakest link in the chain.
