Exterior passive splitter

Inviere

Hi folks

With the analogue channels now switched off in my area, I need to feed Saorview to two other TVs in the house. I’ve an exterior Saorview aerial on the back of the house, and gather to split the feed, a passive splitter is required. Ideally I’d love to keep this splitter outside the house, are there little weather boxes you can wall mount to house these does anyone know?

Alun

https://www.freetv.ie/outdoor-tv-aerial-and-satellite-combiner/

Wheety

As far as I know that only combines 1 satellite feed and 1 Saorview feed into 1 cable, to split again at the tv?

The OP is looking to feed 3 TVs with 1 Saorview aerial.

This may do the job?

https://www.freetv.ie/4-way-inductive-tv-splitter/

Wheety

A distribution amp will give stronger signals to each tv but will have to be powered and kept inside.

https://www.freetv.ie/proception-4-way-tv-amplifier/

Inviere

Wheety wrote: »

The OP is looking to feed 3 TVs with 1 Saorview aerial.

This may do the job?

https://www.freetv.ie/4-way-inductive-tv-splitter/

Correct. I know I’m going to see some signal degradation with a passive splitter, is it considerable though or not too bad. The above looks perfect

Wheety

Inviere wrote: »

Correct. I know I’m going to see some signal degradation with a passive splitter, is it considerable though or not too bad. The above looks perfect

Do you know how far you are from the transmitter? What's your aerial like? If you get a strong signal, you should be ok splitting. I'm not talking from first hand experience though.

The lads at Freetv are usually decent, they may take it back if it doesn't work as expected.

€4 delivery or you can collect in Portarlington for free. Cheap enough that it's not a big risk.

Oh, you'll also need cable.

Inviere

Wheety wrote: »

Do you know how far you are from the transmitter? What's your aerial like? If you get a strong signal, you should be ok splitting. I'm not talking from first hand experience though.

The lads at Freetv are usually decent, they may take it back if it doesn't work as expected.

€4 delivery or you can collect in Portarlington for free. Cheap enough that it's not a big risk.

Oh, you'll also need cable.

It’s roughly around 7 miles from the transmitter I think. I plan on running in two lengths of shotgun cable, so I’ve two feeds coming in from the sat, and two feeds coming in from the Saorview aerial. The aerial itself is one of these https://www.freetv.ie/outdoor-uhf-tv-aerial-kit/

Wheety

I would say you have a very strong signal then.

Ger Roe

I have used the splitter on a very long cable run, in a strong signal area, without any loss of signal - according to tv signal meter display anyway. They certainly work. As mentioned above best bet would be to then feed into an internal distribution amp and send off to the other tv's from there.

The Cush

Inviere wrote: »

Ideally I’d love to keep this splitter outside the house, are there little weather boxes you can wall mount to house these does anyone know?

This would be another option, a variable gain 4-way masthead amplifier, with power supplied via one of the co-ax cables from a power unit inside.

winston_1

Inviere wrote: »

Hi folks

With the analogue channels now switched off in my area, I need to feed Saorview to two other TVs in the house. I’ve an exterior Saorview aerial on the back of the house, and gather to split the feed, a passive splitter is required. Ideally I’d love to keep this splitter outside the house, are there little weather boxes you can wall mount to house these does anyone know?

You don't need weather boxes. Just use self amalgamating tape on all the connections.

winston_1

The Cush wrote: »

Inviere wrote: »

Ideally I’d love to keep this splitter outside the house, are there little weather boxes you can wall mount to house these does anyone know?

This would be another option, a variable gain 4-way masthead amplifier, with power supplied via one of the co-ax cables from a power unit inside.

No point in using a powered splitter if you don't have to. It adds noise, wastes electricity, and will not last as long as a passive splitter.

The Cush

winston_1 wrote: »

No point in using a powered splitter if you don't have to. It adds noise, wastes electricity, and will not last as long as a passive splitter.

Used the one for years, on an exposed aerial mast, never had a problem with it.

winston_1

The Cush wrote: »

winston_1 wrote: »

No point in using a powered splitter if you don't have to. It adds noise, wastes electricity, and will not last as long as a passive splitter.

Used the one for years, on an exposed aerial mast, never had a problem with it.

Maybe so, but did you have to? No point in using if you don't have to for the reasons I gave.

The Cush

winston_1 wrote: »

Maybe so, but did you have to?

Yes, and removed it once it was no longer required.

Inviere

Just to say thanks for the advice and help here, got the job done the other day, and all seems to be working beautifully. I got rid of all the existing/old coax that had been laid, and laid all new RG6 just so the job is done properly (there was a lot of unnecessary old/unused cabling in place, so felt may as well do it right!)

Basically I've one of these aerials mounted beside an old Sky dish. I needed to run three tv's off of it, given the loss of analog channels recently (no bad thing really). One of the tv's was already fed with mini shotgun RG6 from the aerial and dish, so that was fine. I bought some of this shotgun RG6 to be able to feed the other two tv's, so a Saorview feed and a satellite feed for each tv. I had to fit the exterior splitter which was advised above, to be able to split the Saorview feed for the three tv's, this was very easy to do as it fits right onto the mast/pole for the aerial. I bought various f-connector fittings, the sat to coax ones are a pretty nice solution for terminating the end of the RG6 for a Saorview input.

So the Saorview aerial, an old Sky dish with quad LNB, three cables from the aerial splitter, three cables from the quad lnb, all being fed into x3 of these Titan combi receivers . Everything seems perfect, very good signal strength on all tv's, happy days.

Freetv.ie sent the stuff out well packed very quickly, and free delivery, can't fault them. Thanks again all!