explain connections please

jackben

Hi
I have a sab titan 11 hd combo receiver,not sure which connections to use at back of box.I have a sat in and sat loop through which is fine but the 4 i am not sure about are a pair rf in and rf out and a pair ant in and tv out,which one do i use for my uhf aerial in and what would the rest be used for. Thanks

http://www.sabsatellite.nl/sab-titan-1-2/456/sab-titan-ii-hd-combo-s900

STB

jackben wrote: »

Hi
I have a sab titan 11 hd combo receiver,not sure which connections to use at back of box.I have a sat in and sat loop through which is fine but the 4 i am not sure about are a pair rf in and rf out and a pair ant in and tv out,which one do i use for my uhf aerial in and what would the rest be used for. Thanks

http://www.sabsatellite.nl/sab-titan-1-2/456/sab-titan-ii-hd-combo-s900

Ant in is for your aerial. Ant out is to loop to another receiver just sending the capabilities of the aerial to another receiver that would also have a Digital tuner.

RF out is for sending the station you are watching on the box to another TV in the house that has an analogue tuner (for example an old TV in another room that doesn't have a box) via a coax cable. In the menu you can pick the UHF channel (Ch21-69) that you can send that signal on.

jackben

Thanks,finally what would rf in be used for?

STB

jackben wrote: »

Thanks,finally what would rf in be used for?

Video recorder or CCTV camera perhaps.

maxg

Shouldn't be RF in for the aerial and the digital terrestrial tuner and TV out for TV's without scart/hdmi.

Peter Rhea

Afaia, RF in & out relate to the modulator, ant. in is self-explanatory, ant. out is a loopthrough which could be connected to RF-in, if you want the aerial signal on the modulated output.

Edit: See below, seems to be the other way round ('ant.-out' is actually 'tv-out').

maxg

There is no ant out. Only TV out and RF out. TV out relate to the modulator in my opinion and ant in beside to add a signal to the modulator output.

Peter Rhea

Yes, seems you're right, according to the manual.

RF-out is the aerial loopthrough, tv-out the modulator output.

STB

maxg wrote: »

There is no ant out. Only TV out and RF out. TV out relate to the modulator in my opinion and ant in beside to add a signal to the modulator output.

Add a signal on the TV out other than the signal from the internal tuner boards like a cctv camera/video recorder.

I had descrinbed it as an RF out above. It is called TV out then ?

Ronnie Raygun

STB wrote: »

Add a signal on the TV out other than the signal from the internal tuner boards like a cctv camera/video recorder.

Why not the terrestrial aerial signal, as already mentioned above?

It's not like a Sky box where the RF-in/RF-outs are physically close together.

STB

Ronnie Raygun wrote: »

Why not the terrestrial aerial signal, as already mentioned above?

It's not like a Sky box where the RF-in/RF-outs are physically close together.

AFAIK you are only outputting on screen to another box. So in the case of the onboard dvb-t and dvb-s2 tuners it outputs directly off the board. An RF in scenario would be for other devices like a CCTV cam. At least that is my understanding.

maxg

Ronnie Raygun wrote: »

Why not the terrestrial aerial signal, as already mentioned above?

It's not like a Sky box where the RF-in/RF-outs are physically close together.

If the arial is connected to RF in and you connect RF out from the dvb-t tuner board to ant in from the modulator board you have the aerial signal additonally on the modulator output.
It depends what the box owner want.