TV Aerial Extension Flylead 1.8 m — PAL Male to Female, RG6 Quad Shield, 75Ω
A 1.8 metre TV aerial extension lead. One end is a standard PAL (Belling-Lee) male plug, the other a PAL female socket, so it joins onto an aerial cable you already own and adds another 1.8 m. That is the job it exists for: the wall plate is in the wrong corner, the TV has moved to the other end of the cabinet, or the lead supplied with the set-top box turned out to be a metre short. The socket end also makes it a longer lead in its own right wherever the equipment end needs to be female.
Check compatibility
Three things worth checking before you order. First, this is a cable, not an adaptor — a lot of the cheapest “extension” listings are a bare barrel connector with no lead at all, which is why some of them look so cheap. Second, one end is a female socket; if you need a plug at both ends to run from the wall plate into the television, that is a male-to-male flylead and a different part. 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 instead.
Check these alternatives
Need a plug at both ends between two aerial sockets? Choose our 1.8 m PAL male-to-male aerial lead instead. Check both socket genders; it is not a male-to-female extension.
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Key product details
- Extends an aerial lead you already have — male plug on one end, female socket on the other, so it plugs into your existing cable and gives you another 1.8 m of reach
- 1.8 m long — enough to move a TV to the other side of a cabinet, or to reach a wall plate that ended up behind the furniture
- PAL (Belling-Lee) male plug to PAL female socket: fits a standard Australian TV aerial connection at both ends, wall plate or set
- Genuine 75Ω RG6 quad-shield coaxial cable — four layers of shielding rather than the single shield used on ordinary thin flyleads
- Thicker RG6 jacket, so it holds its shape on a longer run instead of kinking behind the set
- Moulded strain relief at both ends, so the cable flexes at the boot instead of at the solder joint
- Also works as a plain wall-plate-to-TV lead wherever the socket end needs to be female
- 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
- This is a cable, not an adaptor — many of the cheapest “extension” listings are a small connector on its own, with no lead
- One end is a socket — this is not a male-to-male flylead, so it will not run from a wall plate straight into a TV on its own
- 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. In a domestic run that matters most where the cable passes near mains wiring, a power board or a router. It is also a heavier cable, so it holds a gentle curve behind a set instead of taking a sharp kink.
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 length without introducing the weakest link in the chain.
