can you split satellite signal

olearydc

Hi

Just a quick one

Desigining a cable layout for a new house

Can U split the signal from 1 dish to the rest of the house
or must I have a cable to the dish from each room

or is there a better way to split SKY to multiple rooms

Ulsterman 1690

You need a multi output LNB (2,4,8) on the dish with a seperate cable to each reciever

Tony

or a quattro lnb and multiswitch

Capt'n Midnight

Many radio's have 4 bands - FM/SW/MW/LW
LNB's - the little box attached to the dish have 4 bands too. hL / hH / vL / vH
h=horizontal
v=Vertical
L=low frequency
H=High frequency

So you have a choice - you can have ONE cable and splitters, but all satellite receivers can only watch one band at a time. This is really only an option where you are only interested in a few channels and they all happen to be on the same band.

Or you can get an LNB which can take 2 or 4 cables, each of which can choose to be on any of the 4 bands. You then run each cable separately to each satellite receiver.

http://www.lyngsat.com/28east.html - H and V mean different bands, I can't remember the cut off for the frequency but ITV and BBC would also be on different bands.

Don't forget you need a decoder card in each sky box,or you would only see FTA stuff - someone may suggest getting SKY+ as a better option.

You can also take the output form the SKY box and send it around the house by cable or wireless sender - but then the other TV's would only see the same channel on SKY and they would not have stereo sound .

Smeagol

must I have a cable to the dish from each room

The most appropriate way. With a multiswitch and Quattro LNB + a terrestrial tv/radio (for RTÉ) aerial you can feed hundreds of rooms. Oh, and you need different TV outlet/sockets.

olearydc

Thanks all!!

I will start looking at getting a Quad LNB