Coax help

[tbs1983]

Taken a coax from my sky dish to my bedroom so i can watch free sat, ive connected it into a tv point in a stud wall, the bedroom back to back needs a tv point too for a similar freesat set up, can i just spur off my tv point or do i need a seperate leg from dish lnb ?

 

[Hawkmoon]

I believe there are booster devices for this (read it somewhere)

 

[SeanSparky]

Taken a coax from my sky dish to my bedroom so i can watch free sat, ive connected it into a tv point in a stud wall, the bedroom back to back needs a tv point too for a similar freesat set up, can i just spur off my tv point or do i need a seperate leg from dish lnb ?

Yes you can, it won't need a booster for just one more point on such a short length of cable.

 

[tbs1983]

yes ive used boosters in the past on new builds where weve had long runs to each room, but just wandering with them being back to back literally a foot of coax apart would it work just as a radial ?

 

[Hawkmoon]

Rather than the length of cable, I think the issue may be signal strength reduction when both tvs are being used at the same time - though i'm not really clued up on this stuff so may be completely wrong

 

[tbs1983]

yes that makes sense, might give it a try anyway and can always add a booster if required. cheers

 

[itselectric]

I think it's ok to loop another tv off with digital with little effect on signal. When analogue was about if you looped off your signal was affected and a proper splitter was recommended.

 

[tazz]

You can run more than 1 tv from the free sat decoder box....but not from the lnb on the dish

 

[tbs1983]

cheers guys, so tazz if i fit one of those plates with the brushes in instead of my tv point, take the coax from my dish into my decoder, then a link out of my decoder to another, that will work?

 

[tazz]

from Lnb on dish to decoder, then the output of decoder to both tvs....anymore then 2 tvs will need a booster.

 

[PAD66]

Not all freesat receivers have an RF output they just have RF loop through. If you want to have two receivers you will need to run a separate cable to your dish for each receiver, you can't split the feed from the LNB like you can from an aerial.

 

[tazz]

Not all freesat receivers have an RF output they just have RF loop through. If you want to have two receivers you will need to run a separate cable to your dish for each receiver, you can't split the feed from the LNB like you can from an aerial.

This is a better idea if you want to watch different channels, will need dual lnb and 2 decoders tho

 

[tbs1983]

yes this is the method I'm after so we can watch separate channels from 2 separate tv's off 2 decoders. oh well i guess its another trip into the attic!!!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Coax help? Offer me chocolate and you may persuade me.

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yes this is the method I'm after so we can watch separate channels from 2 separate tv's off 2 decoders. oh well i guess its another trip into the attic!!!

I have small, moley like eyes I have spent so long in lofts.

 

[tazz]

yes this is the method I'm after so we can watch separate channels from 2 separate tv's off 2 decoders. oh well i guess its another trip into the attic!!!

Trip outside to the dish....dual, triple and quad LNBs are cheap as chips, 2 coaxes from the lnb, one to each decoder and there you go