FTA/Saroview Install advice please

pistolpetes11

Hi Folks , looking for a bit of advice ,


Im looking to re-install a FTA/Saroview System in a house ,

The issue being that the UHF Aerial needs to be at the front right of the house and the Satellite dish needs to be at the back left of the house due to a tree being in the way of signal everywhere else.

One of the rooms to be fed is on the side where the UHF Aerial is and the another two rooms are side by side on the Sat dish side .

There was some type of setup in the house where there was a feed coming from the UHF(Masthead Amped) and the Sat into the Attic , they both went into a combiner and then into a 4 way splitter and the wires then went internally in the walls where there was another de-combiner at every point ,

Anyway after much searching I then found that a line coming from the attic fed into the main TV room but behind that TV unit the line had been split and then sent on to the room beside it , anyway I know the lad who owns the house from work and he has been onto me for a while saying it never works properly and he cant get a hold of the sparks who put it in,

To cut a long story short the chap is pretty peed off that I have basically said to him that the current set up is a bit arse about elbow and that I will have to run a line from the LNB to each room.

I was thinking of running the feed from the Saroview into a 3 way splitter (Signal is pretty high about 78 db , good readings on SER , BER) then each line into a combiner , taking 3 lines from the LNB into each combiner and then back out to each room .

He doesnt really want to run cable outside his house after having them all buried in the walls so that the reason for the 1 cable run to each point , in a ideal world I would run the feed in for Saroview into a distro amp and then bring 2 lines to every room (1 from LNB, 1 from UHF)


Am I missing something here or would you guys do anything different ?

Rippy

Yes that would work.
Any reason why you think not? With 78db @aerial you should not be amplifying anyway for a 3 way split.
An alternative to using 3 IF/UHF diplexers might be to use a quad LNB with a terrestrial input. Then all you have to do is run a cable from the aerial to terr.input on LNB, connect LNB to your downleads, use diplexed outlets, job done!
(not suitable for sky dishes, use something better!)

http://www.vanjak.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=32992

pistolpetes11

Rippy wrote: »

Yes that would work.
Any reason why you think not? With 78db @aerial you should not be amplifying anyway for a 3 way split.
An alternative to using 3 IF/UHF diplexers might be to use a quad LNB with a terrestrial input. Then all you have to do is run a cable from the aerial to terr.input on LNB, connect LNB to your downleads, use diplexed outlets, job done!
(not suitable for sky dishes, use something better!)

http://www.vanjak.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=32992

Got it sorted there last week as I was thinking of doing in the OP.