Amplification Question

Snake_Doctor

Hi, I am trying to get and Saorview and Freesat to several TV’s in the house. I already have the Dish from Sky with 2 cables coming from it into the attic, and I have a TV3 Ariel in the attic as well that as far as I know will do for Saorview. I have only one cable going to most TV points except for the main sitting room where there are three.


Do I need to get two separate amplifiers in the attic, one for Saorview and one for Freesat, take the outputs from each and use a combiner/splitter to get both signals to the single TV point for the combo units?


Seperately, in the main Living room, I want to get the new combo unit with series link – will I need the three cables to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Dave

Knasher

If you have a strong enough signal you might be able to use a splitter and not an amplifier for the saorview. You are better off using a splitter rather than an amplifier if you can, it will save electricity plus when the phone networks start using the frequency bands near the saorview one, it has been suggested that amplifiers might cause some reception problems.

Freesat can't be simple split though. The easiest way to think of it is you need one cable per channel you want to watch. So if you want to watch + record at the same time you need two freesat cables (plus the box to take them). If you aren't planing on having a recorder hooked up, then you only need one freesat cable. You can get an octo LNB, which has 8 outputs, and any more than that you would be talking about getting a multiswitch.

Finally you can get a combiner, which would combine one freesat and the saorview feed down a single cable, and use another to split them out at the end. If that is more convenient than running a new cable to each TV point and provided the cable is of sufficient quality to support freesat.

Randyleprechaun

As far as I'm aware the 4G roll out will only affect masthead amplifiers....I'm open to correction on that!!!

Liameter

A strong 4G signal will affect the amplifier immediately after the aerial, which ought to be a masthead amplifier (but some people try to get away with more noisy distribution amplifiers instead).

It can also affect the Freeview receiver(s) directly, if the 4G signal is very strong and the coaxial cable isn't well screened (thereby acting as an aerial itself).

We'll find out soon enough, now that the auction is finished.

The Cush

Liameter wrote: »

A strong 4G signal will affect the amplifier immediately after the aerial, which ought to be a masthead amplifier (but some people try to get away with more noisy distribution amplifiers instead).

It can also affect the Freeview receiver(s) directly, if the 4G signal is very strong and the coaxial cable isn't well screened (thereby acting as an aerial itself).

We'll find out soon enough, now that the auction is finished.

Add to that, using 4g phones close the the receiver/STB may cause interference. Lets not forget households that use indoor aerials.