Share co-ax cable between satellite and analog TV?

ixtlan

Hi all,

I have a friend with Sky. He didn't want any drilling through his walls so he got the installer to use the existing co-ax network in the house to bring the satellite signal into the living room.

This creates a problem for Sky+ since there's only only one cable... and I don't think there is any cheap way around that...

However moving on he has asked me how to get a signal to a TV in the kitchen. A Video sender is one option, but I was wondering if there was some way to share the co-ax network through the house (and the socket in the kitchen), by for example putting a filter on the socket output, like a DSL splitter... I suspect not, because this would only be useful if the RF output of the Sky box could be fed back into the co-ax cable that is currently bringing down the satellite signal.


Ix.

b318isp

Yep, you can use two combiners, one at each end. I'm using them very successfully on FTA and roof mounted aerial: Tony has them for €9.99 each.

http://www.satellite.ie/acatalog/Satellite_UHF_VHF_Cable_Combiner.html

ixtlan

Wow! Thanks very much.

I think that would work.

So if I take the satellite signal from the socket, feed it to the combiner, and then put satellite into Sky box and aerial into Sky RF output, the RF output will be fed into the distribution cable, and at any other point I could use another combiner/splitter to tap into the RF signal?

That's the right way to look at it? Assuming that this is really a filter rather than a device with any particular in/out direction?

Ix.

b318isp

It should work. I'm using FTA rather than Sky+, but there should be no difference.