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Customer asked me if she can have an additional aerial point for her bedroom. Thing is her property is ground floor of two story house so no real possibility of access to loft to run new cable via amplifier. She currently has tv point in living room have contemplated splitting this to supply bedroom. Concern is I don't know how good her signal is and if split it am I likely to degrade signal for both points. My understanding is this is likely. Would you chaps attempt it, and how would you go about it or is it not worth the ag? Cheers
 
If you use a simple (read, cheap) restive splitter than both outputs get 1/4 of the original signal, so yes it is not great. Proper RF splitters give just under 1/2 to each port, but are unusual for TV setups.

What you might be able to do is use a booster aplifier on the signal coming down, and then split the output of that to several other places. Down side is a bit more cost and need for a power source.
 
If you use a simple (read, cheap) restive splitter than both outputs get 1/4 of the original signal, so yes it is not great. Proper RF splitters give just under 1/2 to each port, but are unusual for TV setups.

What you might be able to do is use a booster aplifier on the signal coming down, and then split the output of that to several other places. Down side is a bit more cost and need for a power source.

Thanks for heads up PC I don't think it's a massive issue for her so will probably have to give a miss
 
You could get a splitter, put a dummy load on one port, and see if it degraded her TV too much on the other before committing to putting the cable run to other room in. Usually digital TVs have some option to check the signal quality and that might let you know if it is good or not.
 

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