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saoview in multiple rooms

  • 08-07-2013 10:20pm
    #1
    mcd121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭


    Hey lads
    Just recently moved house and trying to sort out my saor view. I have a dish outside with channel s available in one bedroom but not the main room. Anyone have any recommendations on how I could get these basic channels in the next room easily? Dont want to run a cable from room to room and am hoping not to get an electrician involved. Thanks for any help


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  • #2
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    You don't use a satellite dish for Saorview reception: you need a UHF aerial of a type appropriate to your location.

    For reception of satellite channels, each tuner needs its own cable from the lnb on the dish, so that's at least 1 cable to each room where you want to view & 2 cables for 'proper' twin-tuner PVRs (e.g. Freesat+) to work fully.


  • #3
    Smokie399
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Smokie399


    mcd121 wrote: »
    Hey lads
    Just recently moved house and trying to sort out my saor view. I have a dish outside with channel s available in one bedroom but not the main room. Anyone have any recommendations on how I could get these basic channels in the next room easily? Dont want to run a cable from room to room and am hoping not to get an electrician involved. Thanks for any help

    If it's just one other room you could use a wireless sender but you would have to watch same channel both rooms,easiest solution is fit another box in the other room,fit a quad lnb to the dish,use 2combiners to bring the saorview and fta signal in on one cable and split it back out at tv,install box and you've got the basic channels in both rooms


  • #4
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭Antenna


    Smokie399 wrote: »
    If it's just one other room you could use a wireless sender but you would have to watch same channel both rooms,easiest solution is fit another box in the other room,fit a quad lnb to the dish,use 2combiners to bring the saorview and fta signal in on one cable and split it back out at tv,install box and you've got the basic channels in both rooms

    If you have to run new cable anyway, you are better off running another cable for terrestrial, rather than use diplexers, the cumulative loss of both diplexers needed results in a halving (if not worse) of UHF terrestrial signal strength. In a strong signal area (or if you have an amplifier) this should make no difference but it could make all the difference between Saorview working OK or not (without aerial amplifiers) in many other areas.

    The cost of extra cable is likely less than the cost of diplexers anyway


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