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Wiring from aerial and sky dish?

  • 25-10-2012 8:42pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    I don't know if any of this will make sense but here goes.

    As far as I know we've only had one wire coming from the attic, probably coax, carrying the signal from the satelite dish and the aerial. Anyway someone was ****ing around with it today and I don't know exactly how things were before and haven't been able to find out.
    Basically the wire from the attic goes into the Sky box and then I have a coax from the Sky box to the TV. Until this morning we had all the Saorview and Freeview channels fine but this morning, actually before anyone was near the TV, the Saorview channels were cutting out. At the moment the best I can get is the Saorview channels being detected but with such a poor signal as to be unwatchable and Freeview may as well not exist.

    Any ideas?


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  • #2
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    How is the Sky receiver connected to the TV - co-ax cable only, scart and/or HDMI?
    How may cables into the Sky receiver?

    If there is only a single cable from the aerial and dish to the TV point carrying both feeds then it requires something, a sat/aerial splitter, to separate the two signals before they enter the Sky receiver's LNB IN and AERIAL IN.

    Does the single cable from the attic split at a faceplate?


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    Only thing "into" the Sky box is the coax from the attic and then it's connected to the TV by a SCART. I'm assuming that the other coax was Skybox-TV because I can't see where else it could go. All the wires that were there are still there so I don't know where a splitter would come into it.


  • #4
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Only thing "into" the Sky box is the coax from the attic and then it's connected to the TV by a SCART. I'm assuming that the other coax was Skybox-TV because I can't see where else it could go. All the wires that were there are still there so I don't know where a splitter would come into it.

    To get the Saorview and Freeview channels on the TV an aerial feed must be connected directly to the TV's aerial in socket or the aerial feed connected to aerial in on the Sky receiver (not the LNB in) and then from RF1 out to the TV.

    Where are the sat dish feed and aerial feed joined. If the 2 feeds are on that cable they must be split again before the satellite feed is connected to the LNB IN on the Sky receiver and the aerial feed is connected directly to the TV or the AERIAL/RF IN on the Sky receiver.

    Is the TV aerial mounted on the roof?
    How many aerials are there for Freeview and Saorview?
    Where are you located?


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    The Cush wrote: »
    To get the Saorview and Freeview channels on the TV an aerial feed must be connected directly to the TV's aerial in socket or the aerial feed connected to aerial in on the Sky receiver (not the LNB in) and then from RF1 out to the TV.

    Where are the sat dish feed and aerial feed joined. If the 2 feeds are on that cable they must be split again before the satellite feed is connected to the LNB IN on the Sky receiver and the aerial feed is connected directly to the TV or the AERIAL/RF IN on the Sky receiver.

    Is the TV aerial mounted on the roof?
    How many aerials are there for Freeview and Saorview?
    Where are you located?
    Located in Dundalk, got a single aerial on the roof. There's a single coax coming in from the attic and that's all there's been for the last 10 years if not longer. Until Thursday it was picking up all Saorview and Freeview completely fine, no splitter, just a coax from Skybox to TV. Since Thursday all it's picking up is listings for Saorview and Freeview channels may as well not exist.


  • #6
    Peter Rhea
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    The only reason you would connect a terrestrial aerial feed to a Sky box RF-in, is if you are using the RF2 output for other tvs to view the programme showing on the Sky box via their analogue tuners & you also want these tvs to be able to access the aerial signal.

    Otherwise just connect the aerial lead to your main tv & the satellite dish lnb feed to the Sky box lnb input (screw-on f-connector).

    Do you have a Sky subscription? The free channels you get with a Sky box are not Freeview. Freeview is the UK terrestrial service, received via a UHF aerial.


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  • #7
    The Cush
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Located in Dundalk, got a single aerial on the roof. There's a single coax coming in from the attic and that's all there's been for the last 10 years if not longer. Until Thursday it was picking up all Saorview and Freeview completely fine, no splitter, just a coax from Skybox to TV. Since Thursday all it's picking up is listings for Saorview and Freeview channels may as well not exist.

    Unless you connect an aerial feed directly to the TV's AERIAL IN or the Sky box's AERIAL IN you won't get the Saorview of Freeview channels.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
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    Peter Rhea wrote: »
    The only reason you would connect a terrestrial aerial feed to a Sky box RF-in, is if you are using the RF2 output for other tvs to view the programme showing on the Sky box via their analogue tuners & you also want these tvs to be able to access the aerial signal.

    Otherwise just connect the aerial lead to your main tv & the satellite dish lnb feed to the Sky box lnb input (screw-on f-connector).

    Do you have a Sky subscription? The free channels you get with a Sky box are not Freeview. Freeview is the UK terrestrial service, received via a UHF aerial.

    Well it was working before so it was miraculous it seems. I know the difference between Freeview, Saorview, Freesat etc. etc., the TV has a tuner that picks up both Saorview and Freeview.


  • #9
    watty
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    The Sky free channels on ROI card are not what a Freesat box gets either.

    You need to be in particular Border or SE coast areas with suitable aerials to get Freeview.


  • #10
    The Cush
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Well it was working before so it was miraculous it seems.

    Looks like it's time to get it sorted properly.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
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    watty wrote: »
    The Sky free channels on ROI card are not what a Freesat box gets either.

    You need to be in particular Border or SE coast areas with suitable aerials to get Freeview.

    It seems until Thursday we were in a particular border area but now we are not. forget Freesay, I just said I know the difference between them. Until Thursday we were in the "right" area with the right aerial set-up to get both Saorview and Freeview, now apparently we're not.


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