TV Link Question

bucks73

I have my TV link working fine at the moment. The FTV digibox is downstairs and the RF2 is connected to the wall socket which runs up to the attic. In the attic, the cable then connects to another cable running to the bedroom aerial socket. The cable coming from this socket has the TV Link connected at the end and then this is connected to the TV.

What I am trying to do though is connect a terrestrial aerial in the attic. When I add a splitter in the attic to send the Sky and Aerial signals down the one cable the TV Link stops working. The sky picture and the terrestrial picture are there but the link wont work to change sky channels.

Any help much appreciated.

watty

You need a separate cable from Aerial to RF in on Digibox. Aerial signals then appear on RF1 and RF2 outs.

You can't use a splitter / combiner this way, which also would very weakly TX your Digibox OUT via the aerial if it did work, but as you found it doesn't.

cormacl

Another possibility is to see if you can run the aerial feed into the bedroom through another cable and then place the splitter into the TV RF socket and feed the aerial line and Tv-Link feed into that.. that way you don't interfere with the TV-link feed en-route.. should work in theory.

To feed an extra cable in through the existing bedroom socket.. if the socket is near the floor, and you find the cable can move freely between socket and attic.. you can detach it from the bedroom socket, attach a 2nd run of cable and strong string.. tape it up well.. then pull up the cable from inside the attic (you may need to widen the dryboard hole that its feeding through.. once the new run is up, then detach the new cable and use the string to pull the original back down.. then fit a 2nd or double RF socket below.