Quick cabling question - Saorview/Sky

oakshade

Hi folks,

A quick cabling question for you... In my bedroom I have a single coax cable/wall socket. At the moment it is carrying a Saorview signal from a roof aerial. It really isn’t possible to run a second cable to this room.

I also have a feed (output) from a sky+ box running to a different bedroom (with sky eye) which I’m no longer using.

Is it possible to somehow combine the Saorview/Skybox output into a single cable into my bedroom – if so:

What equipment do I need?
Will my Sky Eye still change the sky channel?

Thanks a million for the help.

Peter Rhea

The Sky box has an RF-in socket: if you plug an aerial feed in here, the aerial signal will be combined with the modulated output of the box & will be available wherever you distribute the Sky box output.

If you just want to combine the 2 cables in the attic, you can use a combiner/splitter like this one. Note that it has directional power pass, so the 9 VDC power from the Sky box goes where you want it. Also passes RF signals down to 5 mHz, so the magic eye remote commands will work.

oakshade

Peter Rhea wrote: »

The Sky box has an RF-in socket: if you plug an aerial feed in here, the aerial signal will be combined with the modulated output of the box & will be available wherever you distribute the Sky box output.

If you just want to combine the 2 cables in the attic, you can use a combiner/splitter like this one. Note that it has directional power pass, so the 9 VDC power from the Sky box goes where you want it. Also passes RF signals down to 5 mHz, so the magic eye remote commands will work.

Thank you Peter.

Option 1 sounds great but I only have 3 cables at the skybox (sky,sky+ and a return feed) and I dont really want to drill to add a third (my wife would kill me :-))

Option 2 sounds good too - I noticed the combiner/splitter in the link was a 1-in/2-out, will this work in reverse or do I need to buy a 2-in/1-out?

Appreciate the help

Peter Rhea

It's only directional wrt power. This will ensure that the power for the magic eye, from the Sky box RF2 output only goes to the magic eye & not to the aerial connected on the other leg (you could use this power for some aerial amplifiers too, in which case you would need a combiner with non-directional powerpass, but that's another story).