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Help needed - FTA kit installed using co-axial cable - problem

  • 18-07-2012 5:49pm
    #1
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    Could use some help with this...
    Myself and a friend have been trying to install a FTA box in a mates house today. She had sky installed some years ago, so we are using that dish. We could not go through the walls (due to them being almost 4' thick) so we used a satellite splitter, using the existing co-axial for the Irish channels. We now have no signal quality, which we had before, 85%, before we used the splitter. Would the old co-axial cable not be strong enough to carry the signal through? If that makes sense :confused:

    Thanks in advance :)


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  • #2
    MrFrisp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭MrFrisp


    twirlagig wrote: »
    Hi all,
    Could use some help with this...
    Myself and a friend have been trying to install a FTA box in a mates house today. She had sky installed some years ago, so we are using that dish. We could not go through the walls (due to them being almost 4' thick) so we used a satellite splitter, using the existing co-axial for the Irish channels. We now have no signal quality, which we had before, 85%, before we used the splitter. Would the old co-axial cable not be strong enough to carry the signal through? If that makes sense :confused:

    Thanks in advance :)




    You can't split a Sat signal as such.....It's not that easy at all....

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=61475541






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  • #3
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    twirlagig wrote: »
    . . . we used a satellite splitter, using the existing co-axial for the Irish channels. )

    Do you mean a satellite/terrestrial combiner like these items?

    You use 1 to combine the signals & another to split them again at the receiver end (this one can be integrated into a wall plate). The cable would have to be capable of coping with the satellite IF signal, which is a higher frequency than the UHF tv broadcast band.


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