Apartment TV Wiring

dazcush

Hi, I'm not really sure which forum this should go in, I've tried the Home Entertainment DIY one and got no replies, so I'll give it a go here and sure we'll see what happens...

Basically, I live in an apartment in Gorey. I've what appears to be a terrestrial feed into my living room giving me 8 or so channels, including Five. The Socket Five is coming through looks like this out of the one marked TV. I've me sky digital coming out of the one marked Satellite. Now, beside that socket on the wall is another TV socket, looks like this. I get no feed at all through that, terrestrial or satellite.

There's also one each of those single ports in both of the bedrooms, but again I get no reception at all through them. I have removed the cover from them and there is a wire connected to them, But beyond that I'm clueless.

What I want to know is, is there any way I can connect the terrestrial feed I have coming from the 3 pointer in the living room, up to the bedroom sockets?, using the existing wiring?

thanks for any sort of answer!

Darrell

bk

At a guess, I think perhaps the extra socket might be connected to the bedrooms.

So you could try taking the aerial out and connecting it straight to this socket and then test it in the bedrooms. If it works then great. If it works then you could also use it to take the RF out from the Sky box so you could watch Sky in your bedrooms and use Sky Eye devices to control the Sky box from your bedroom.

dazcush

thanks bk. are you suggesting just connecting one to the other via coax? or doing some unscrewy stuff in behind the panels?

cheers

daz

STB

The second single port in the main room is for an RF modulator. On the back of the sky box it will be labelled RF OUT

Run a coax cable from the sky box to the "Single port" in the main room. This should send the signals down to the other room (of what you are watching on the sat box - so make sure the sat box is on).

In the bedroom you need another coax cable to run to the TV from the point in the bedroom. You can then tune in the signal you have sent to the bedroom by tuning to the UHF frequency of the RF modulator. On a Sky Box you can pick the UHF channel that the RF modulator will send this on. How to do this

If this works then you could send your Aerial signals (or the Five one as you called it) through the modulator as well using a Y splitter, but try the basics first .

dazcush

ok, i'll give it a shot. thanks a mil for the feedback!

daz