Sky in multiple rooms.

[Sintra]

Current set up is.

Living room sky+ hd with 2 cables direct to dish.
Bedroom 1 (my room) coax from sky+ hd box to magic eye.
Bedroom 2 sky+ another 2 cables to dish.
Bedrooms 3 & 4 have freeview boxes with portable arials.

What i want to do is to put a standard sky box (which i have) into bedroom 3 but i don't want to use a magic eye from Bedroom 2 as different viewing would be needed. Four cables already at dish so no room there.
The tv positions in bedrooms 2 & 3 are back to back with each other so i was thinking if i was to split one of the cables that goes directly to the dish from bedroom 2 and take to bedroom 3 would this work.

Suggestions on how to do and what splitter etc to use much appreciated.

 

[Spudnik]

You will still need a coax(s) to the dish for the additional Sky box (bed 3), even if you dont have a sub for it.

Sky signals dont like being spilt i think.

 

[tenheads]

LoftBox® try this mate.

 

[Mr Mark Sparks]

Sky Octo LNB, 8 Way lnb

how about this option

 

[Mr Mark Sparks]

LoftBox® try this mate.

dont think you can use this to split dish inputs

 

[bugsy]

Sintra pm Mayfair,

 

[circles]

Buy a quad LNB and fit on to your existing dish. If do it carefully and you will not need to realign the dish. You will have to make a skew adjustment of the LNB which is due to your geographical position on the earth's surface. Basically this means that you need to twist the LNB slightly. Look at the present one and then you'll have an idea which way to twist it but they are all slightly different amounts anyway.
Once you have done that, get some CT100 coaxial cable or equivalent and run it directly to your sat box. Ensure no tight corners along the run as this will cause reflections and attenuate the signal. Hope this helps.

 

[Spudnik]

Also, if you are using your existing Sky dish, it may have a different fitment depending how old it is.

I think we are on Mk 5 now.

 

[Sintra]

LoftBox® try this mate.

Thanks tenheads good idea but reading the link it says you can only watch the selected sky channel so don't think it would work for me.

 

[Sintra]

Sky Octo LNB, 8 Way lnb

how about this option

That could be an option as the dish is easy to get at. Thanks.

 

[Sintra]

Sintra pm Mayfair,

Will do mate thanks.

 

[Sintra]

Buy a quad LNB and fit on to your existing dish. If do it carefully and you will not need to realign the dish. You will have to make a skew adjustment of the LNB which is due to your geographical position on the earth's surface. Basically this means that you need to twist the LNB slightly. Look at the present one and then you'll have an idea which way to twist it but they are all slightly different amounts anyway.
Once you have done that, get some CT100 coaxial cable or equivalent and run it directly to your sat box. Ensure no tight corners along the run as this will cause reflections and attenuate the signal. Hope this helps.

Thanks mate the dish allready has a quad fitted and all ways being used so i may go down the route of an octo. Thanks also for the advice on alignment.

 

[Sintra]

Also, if you are using your existing Sky dish, it may have a different fitment depending how old it is.

I think we are on Mk 5 now.

I know my dish has been up for a long so will have to check compatibility of fittings also. Cheers

 

[circles]

splitting sat cables has been done but you don't have to watch the same channel you just have to watch the same polarisation channels. Either vertical or horizontally polarised. The thing and more importantly is the switching voltage that comes from the back of the sat receiver. Here there will be a presence of 12 volts or not, depending on polarisation. Obviously if you have two units both supplying voltages to the same LNB it doesn't make for happy equipment. Usually they don't like it very much, have a bit of a squabble and one or both of them decide to actually go into orbit rather than receive signals from it. So if you do split the Sat cable you will need to isolate the DC polarisation voltage before connecting this can be by fitting a capacitor in line.

 

[Sintra]

Thanks again mate now i know the reasoning against splitting will go for the LNB option.