Just moved into a house and found these weird sockets. Any ideas

>>1173965
they are called mains socket, that is where you plug in your things to get electric power from, e.g. television, hair drier etc.

My first thought is maybe an old antenna outlet? What country are you in, OP?

>>1173965
>slot screw on cover plate
gotta be murika
it should be a ungrounded 15amp~240V outlet.

>>1173976
>gotta be murika
Never mind the cover screw, the shape of the openings in the plate say "Burgerland".
But that's definitely NOT a normal 120v outlet.
Not only are the slots wrong, why aren't there two outlets?
I've been an electrician since the early 1980's, and I've never seen something like this.

>>1173971
>old antenna outlet
I'm inclined to agree. Or maybe some weird phone outlet.
OP, open one up and show us what's inside.
If you have a meter, check for voltage first.

>>1173965
Who the fuck even knows what ameristupids are thinking when they redneck things into there houses get a proper english electrican to replace all of your outlets and correctly solder them.

>>1174047
>soldering an electrical outlet

No thanks, I don't want any house fires.

>>1174047
Why are you on DIY?

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>>1173965

>>1173987
Top fuggin kek

>>1174047
Thinking i want ac and i am drunk and five 0 fucks if it dunps watter and fucks my shit up

>>1174049
This thread /10

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Inside has this.

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This is what is behind the second cover

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I forgot to mention that this is a US house.
Also there's a plug right next to it.

Do you have a CAT III/IV 500V+ multimeter? If so give it a probe to check the voltage.

I'm putting my money on speaker plugs for a PA/ stereo system.

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And I'm doubting it's an antenna line with this less than a foot away.

It says COAX on the cable
It's either some sort of antenna
OR
Unamplified speaker cable (like something going to a powered sub woofer)

>>1174125
It's a phone line, but from when phone lines were fairly newish. Legit, look at the cable running from the outlet and see if you can see if it's Bell.

>>1174124
follow that fucking coax cable. I'm on the edge of my seat.

No voltage on the line.

Fancy socket for twin lead antenna flat cable
with impedance matching to coax done in the socket.
That is 75 to 300ohm, wingdings look kind of like it.

What do I win?

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>>1173965
Its an antenna socket for a Medium Wave radio. Quite rare these days, very rare back when. Pic related.

>>1173965
>They're in almost every room.

Thats cool

>>1174163
Can confirm.

There were two main competing standards it appears. One setup had an electrical outlet on the bottom and a similar looking outlet with the left prong off at 45 degrees. The other was as you posted OP.

It looks to me from my experience the duplex form was almost always installed in new homes at the time of construction and the version you posted I've only ever seen installed after the homesale.

Trace the leads and they'll all go up to the attic and up to the roof.

I used to convert these over to cat5 network jacks when I'd remodel the homes. Tape up some cat5 on the lead in the room and pull it up to the attic. Made it super easy to run the wires.

>>1174163
Where could I even get one nowadays? I want to try it out if it'll work.

>>1174221
Do you have an antenna on the house still? If not, then no, it wont work.

>>1174221
>>1174233
Or, hell, do you have a TV with a digital tuner? They turned off analog broadcasts some years back.

>>1174235
Surely still some FM/AM radio broadcast in Murica? OP, as said, it wouldn't 'not work', its just a dumb connection to an ariel/antennae that may (or may not) still be there (roof/atttic) - youd get those plugs in ebay or junkshop, need an old radio (with ariel socket) to test, can also wire a piece of coax direct.

As also said, best case, that coax runs in a cable channel, or has enough slack to pull something actually useful like Cat5.

>>1173965
it is a mountain dew dispenser, you have to put your mouth arround it and lick

Get some tweezers and stick them in it.

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>>1174146
>Fancy socket for twin lead antenna flat cable
>with impedance matching to coax done in the socket.
>That is 75 to 300ohm, wingdings look kind of like it.
>What do I win?
chicken dinner!

>>1174247
You can still pick up digital broadcast. I'm in S FL and recently replaced PO installed dish with regular TV antenna pointed south. Get something like 50 channels... digital broadcast allows stations to put several programs on one station.

The twin lead is obsolete but the 75 ohm cable is just fine. If there's still an antenna outside or upstairs will likely work fine with digital. If not replace and use the old wires.

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>>1174354

>>1174124
I'm guessing the F connector is cable company shit and the other free to air.

I'd replace the FTA with an F plate.

>>1174117
It is to an antenna for tv.

>>1174247
Its old foam core coax, propably not in great condition anymore

>>1174113
>>1174117
>coaxial cable
>ferrite filter
yep, it's an antenna outlet

>>1174124
that's because the cable tv provider nigger rigged the new cable probably in a old phone outlet

>>1173965
looks like one of the crazy 1970s phone port experiments

>>1174047
>ameristupids
>There houses

Pottery

>>1174221
MW is AM.

>>1176088
isnt mw the frequency range and am the modulation technique?

>>1176208
Yup. But op has not confirmed there is an antenna ar the other end.

>>1174235
>>1174233
>>1174221
It would work for any antenna you connected it to, although I don't know what the losses at different frequencies would be.

>>1173965

Electricity comes out of them. You can use it to power a variety of useful appliances.

>>1177117
Read the thread

>>1174127
>Phone line

No it isn't, it is an old type antenna socket, that is why it has a balun on the back of the plate.
Just replace the plate with a new F-connector adapter plate.

>>1174117
clean your fingernails

>>1174145
"Channel Master"? It's old TV antenna cable.

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Old school low voltage

>>1174127
Its old phone line this guy is right

>>1174127
Nope, phones have always used twisted pair. It's a 70's Medium wave radio hookup, specifically used in cable radio subscription service. Had two in my house when I brought it back '86, used the coax to pull through 3 core, coax was shit foam core, pretty much useless.