markandsacha Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Hi, Sorry if this has already been posted in the past. We've got FTA in our lounge and want to have a signal going to the tv in the kitchen. Our question is where do we spur off before the reciever in the lounge or after? many thanks,mark_and_sacha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob T Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Are you talking about Sky FTA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Trollope Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 [quote user="mark_and_sacha"]Hi, Sorry if this has already been posted in the past. We've got FTA in our lounge and want to have a signal going to the tv in the kitchen. Our question is where do we spur off before the reciever in the lounge or after? many thanks,mark_and_sacha[/quote]If you are indeed talking about a Sky digibox, then you simply plug the second TV into the RF2 soket on the back of the box. It will a) need to be PAL-I (UK) - compatible TV and b) it will only be able to receive the same program as the main telly.Anything else needs more than 1 digibox & a different LNB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezShells Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Or goto your local brico and get a wireless sender / reciever, anything from 30 - 50 euros, watching the same channel on both tvsOr you can ofcourse get another digibox (UK / euro box) and wire that up.but he first option is the easiest.Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markandsacha Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Hi,thankyou all for your replies. It is a box reciever that we bought from the local Brico and not a sky box, so therefore doesnt have a RF2 socket only a "loop"socket - would this work the same? if not it looks like getting one of those wireless recievers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deauville Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Sorry to butt in on somebody else's question but I can't find my original post and I'm hoping to get clarification on something I asked! I want to run two FTA boxes but someone said that I can't split the signal and I would need two LNB's and cables, but WHY can't the cable signal be split? It can be done with a conventional aerial so why not with Sat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezShells Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Deauville - I think its due to the digibox powering the LNB.You wont need two LNBs, you can get a single lnb with several outputs.Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave&Olive Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 hi ok Iv`e tried it and it will not work, some channels are virt polarised some are horizotal .the box sends a signal to the lnb to go either virt or hoz ...so you can watch different channels but they must be both the same polarization ie bbc1 on 1 box and channel 4 on the other both horizontal but change one over to itv a virticle polarised one and they both go off dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 [quote user="Deauville"]Sorry to butt in on somebody else's question but I can't find my original post and I'm hoping to get clarification on something I asked! I want to run two FTA boxes but someone said that I can't split the signal and I would need two LNB's and cables, but WHY can't the cable signal be split? It can be done with a conventional aerial so why not with Sat?[/quote]Because the LNB is switched to send only part of the signal down the CoAx cable. The technical part is to do with allowing a wider range of frequencies to be received by the LNB than can be send down the Co Ax without large loss of signal quality.A conventional Aerial sends everything and leaves the tuner in the TV Video etc to sort out which signal you want to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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