Newbie! Help identifying what I need

crazyirishchick

Hi All,
So I've moved into a new house with a satellite dish hanging off the side of it and thought right lets get a good setup going here for tv around the house. There is also a small FM aerial on the chimney stack in the attic as well as a TV aerial on the outside of the house right beside the satellite dish. So here is what I have and what I want to setup:

So I have at the moment, 3 cables in the attic, one from satellite dish, one from TV aerial and one from FM aerial.

I have 4 rooms with tv & fm points in, one of which also has the satellite cable as well from the dish.

Here is what I want to setup:

All 4 rooms with satellite recievers, tv point from aerial and fm point from fm aerial. I want to run one good quality cable (WF100) to each of the 4 rooms to minimise and keep things tidy.

I know I need a quad LNB from the satellite dish, so this will add 3 more cables to the existing 3 cables in the attic.
I know I need to use diplexers because I want to run one cable behind each wall. The wall plate will then have 3 ports with a diplexer to re-split the signals - one satellite, one tv and one Fm.

What I'm unsure of is what to do with the 6 cables in the attic to get them to one cable run for each of the 4 rooms? 4 cables from the quad LNB on satellite dish, one from tv aerial and one from fm aerial.

Any pointers would be well recieved or if there is a better way of doing the whole thing I'm open to suggestions. I just want to get it as right as possible first time!

There is thankfully 2 power sockets in the attic if that helps as well just beside the chimney stack.

Thanks all.

Crazy.

Tony

There are two ways you can go on this. You could get a multi switch compatible with your quad lnb and combine the aerial inputs before connecting to the mutiswitch or you could use an vhf/uhf amplifier and combine the outputs with the satellite dish cable using the diplexers. You say you are a newbie but you seem to have a good understanding of what you need already.

Hope this helps

Sam Radford

How about a Loft Box?
http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/lofthelp.htm

(Note that this probably won't work for VHF TV channels - only for UHF TV.)

Tony

In Dublin this will be ok though, good suggestion.

Sam Radford wrote: »

How about a Loft Box?
http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/lofthelp.htm

(Note that this probably won't work for VHF TV channels - only for UHF TV.)

crazyirishchick

Thanks guys,
I'm actually now based in the wilds of galway so a loft box is probably not a goer. As for being a newbie, yep but I think I understand the basics from what I've read so far.

Sam Radford

There's an alternative suggestion here but I don't know if it will help:
http://satcure.net/tech/combiners.htm

jaffo

Wow thats exactly what I'm trying to setup at the moment CIC, however I'm a little unclear about what Tony mentioned. Can I combine the fm aerial and tv aerial first into one cable and then feed this along with the satellite feeds through a multiplexer?

opalfruit

Maybe something like this: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=5126&C=5716&U=shop_FE27E