Advice needed with dish/aerial setup

mbflavin

Hi. I'm looking for some advice with regards cabling for my satellite dish/aerial. At present I have no terrestrial aerial installed. I have a quad lnb on a minidish thats connected to a Sky + box in the living room and a non-sub sky box in the bedroom. What I want to do is this. I want to keep the Sky + box downstairs (possibly upgrade to HD) and install a Freesat PVR. I want to put cheap FTA receivers in two more bedrooms. I also want the terrestrial aerial to all 4 rooms in preparation for Irish DTT. Currently I have two cables running down the outside of my house into through the wall into the living room. I also have another cable going through the roof and attic into the bedroom. Finally, there is a cable running from the attic to a wall plate in the living room. The way I had planned it was to get an Octo LNB and have four cables to the living room and 3 more to the bedrooms, and four more from the aerial to each room in the house.
Is there any way to go about this without running so many cables? Any way of say running one cable carrying all the signals to each room and then splitting them in the room?

Tony

mbflavin wrote: »

Any way of say running one cable carrying all the signals to each room and then splitting them in the room?

Yes you can use a tv satellite combiner unit, one at either end of the cable run to combine one satellite feed with the terrestrial signal.

Sam Radford

Described here: http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/combiners.htm