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Satellite TV Offers Satellite and antenna signal combining and splitting» Satellite and antenna signal combining and splittingDear Dave, But anyway, In the basement, I have separate cable runs to each room in my house. I want to organize these cables, and actually connect all rooms w/both Sat and Antenna. Currently I have only 2 rooms hooked up, since I have only 2 line splitters (which I am using backwords, 2 cables in to combine into 1). With 1 (or in the future possible 2) Sat signal(s) and 1 Antenna signal, how can I split/combine these to go to 10 to 16 separate rooms? Splitters that I have seen only split up to about 6, with only one input cable. Also, I have no idea what the difference is between a splitter, a multi-switch, etc, are.–so please keep it simple for me. -Darin Comments (5) -> “Satellite and antenna signal combining and splitting”
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Hi Darin,
The first thing you should do is isolate one wire from each room in your basement. Then tag each one so you know which wire goes were.
The Simplest way to hook each room up with Directv and an antenna.
On this site here They have Multi Satellite Switches designed for various distribution situations. The “Spaun DMS-51602NF HDTV Multiswitch” would work for sixteen rooms. They also have switches for less tv’s on that page.
At each receiver you would need one Channel Vision Sat-D2Mini diplexer
That will separate the signal back into two cables and one would go to your sat in and the other would go to antenna in on the receiver.
Let me know if you need more help. I need to check on something for the two satellite signal with antenna.
dave
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Dave,
My signal from the dish goes directly to my sat receiver, along w/ my antenna signal.
From the sat receiver out – it goes to a splitter and one goes to tv other to basement.
So, in basement, I have antenna and sat signal that has already gone thru the sat receiver.
How do I combine the antenna and sat signal (that has already gone thru the sat receiver) to send to other rooms in the house?
I think the multi switches you are talking about are for sat signals that have not gone thru sat reviever. Also, prices are WOW!
Darin,
OK, i misunderstood what you were asking, Sorry.
i thought you wanted to put a receiver in every room or at least have that option.
You want to send the signal (sat/antenna) from that one receiver to every room. Correct?
So i understand, the satellite receiver has satellite and antenna hooked to it now, Correct?
Then before the cable goes in the back of the tv you have a splitter that feeds into the TV and the basement.
let me know if what i am thinking you have is correct and i can tell you what you need next and if you are even on the right track.
You are thinking correct.
Sorry to confuse you. I am the one that should be confused.
I have cable from actual antenna running into basement, from there it goes to my sat reciever.
The sat reciever ‘out’ goes to a splitter then to my tv & basement. (However, I also have S-video coming out of Sat reciever and into tv).
But you are correct.
How do I combine the antenna and sat signal (that has already gone thru the sat receiver) to send to other rooms in the house?
Currently, I have these going to 1 room in my house, and I used a normal cable splitter (1 in, 2 out) but hooked it up backward, i.e. 2 in, 1 out. I don’t think this is the correct way to do it, especially for several more rooms.
Darin, The wire coming out of the receiver has the Satellite and Antenna signal.
The wire you have in the basement that comes from the receiver…. You would just feed that into a series of splitters until you have enough ports to hook all your rooms up.
Use the splitter the way it was meant to be used. When you have the receiver on, all of your rooms will have Satellite and when the receiver is off all the room will have Antenna.
let me know if you have more questions.
dave