Reverse a splitter to combine signals from different antennas. Splitters contain no electronic devices and don't require any power, making them "passive" instead of "active. " Because of this, they can be connected in reverse without any damage. If i can avoid it I'd rather not buy a powered splitter so what i was wondering is could i use one of these in reverse: So rather than have two inputs and one output (depending on switch position, not combined). Can I plug the white F end into the existing RCA cable from the receiver, the purple M end into the existing sub, and then a 2nd regular M-M cable into the red F end and off to a 2nd sub? <div class="post-sig post-sig-limit shazam usersig-click"><div class="reparse-sig-lineheight"><span>Vin Diesel. Can a coax (TV antenna) splitter be reversed, to feed two antennas into one cable? Where I am no external antennas are allowed, so we all have them in our garage rafters and attics. I'm still pulling in MOST OTA channels by pointing to the "antenna farm" 30 miles NE of us, but there's a handful of. And using your TV splitter/combiner as a combiner is just as simple as using the device as a splitter. 2 Connect one end of a coaxial cable to the. If this component is reversed it can actually be used to converge two separate beams into a single one.