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Ladies and Gents, Apologies for the confusion, I am a novice to all this so I'll start again. I have a labgear pcs120 sitting just under the eves of my house accessible from a step ladder. It's been up there for about a year. There are two feeds coming from it, one to the main TV in the lounge and one into the main bedroom. It's one of these. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...3&pname=PSC120 How easy or difficult would it be to swap this out for a four way one and run another two feeds out. One to another bedroom and one to the kitchen. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...3&pname=FJU704 It looks the same (to me) as the PCS120 only it has four outlets not two? The cable runs would be about 12mts to 15mts, and both runs are easy and straight forward. Is there anything I should look out for such as signal drop, noise etc. At the moment as things stand the picture is very good to both freeview boxes and the signal strength on my Humax PVR9200 in the lounge shows 65/70% and signal quality shows as 100%. Thanks to Piers James for pointing me in the right direction for CT100 cable. Is the stuff on the screwfix site http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...72308&ts=18671 the same or as good as CT100. Loads of questions I know, but your help here would be very much appreciated. Mel. Gravity is a myth The Earth Sucks. |
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wrote Ladies and Gents, Apologies for the confusion, I am a novice to all this so I'll start again. I have a labgear pcs120 sitting just under the eves of my house accessible from a step ladder. It's been up there for about a year. There are two feeds coming from it, one to the main TV in the lounge and one into the main bedroom. It's one of these. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...2&cname=Masthe ad%20Products&plid=8&sc1name=Combiners%20Splitter s%20Filters&sc2name=&pi d=23&pname=PSC120 How easy or difficult would it be to swap this out for a four way one and run another two feeds out. One to another bedroom and one to the kitchen. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...8&cname=Networ k%20Taps%20and%20Splitters&plid=26&sc1name=UHF%20 Splitters&sc2name=&pid= 113&pname=FJU704 It looks the same (to me) as the PCS120 only it has four outlets not two? The cable runs would be about 12mts to 15mts, and both runs are easy and straight forward. Is there anything I should look out for such as signal drop, noise etc. The 2 outlet device has a 3.7dB insertion loss at 470Mhz whereas the 4 outlet device has a 7.8dB insertion loss. The extra insertion loss may make the signal at the TV and PVR marginal. At the moment as things stand the picture is very good to both freeview boxes and the signal strength on my Humax PVR9200 in the lounge shows 65/70% and signal quality shows as 100%. You may need a distribution amplifier rather than a passive splitter. Thanks to Piers James for pointing me in the right direction for CT100 cable. Is the stuff on the screwfix site http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...72308&ts=18671 the same or as good as CT100. No. If you go to Bill Wright's site at http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/coaxcablequalityhmdim.htm its the type C cable mentioned in the article. The CT100 type is the type A or B cable mentioned in the article. The foam dielectric CT100 'type' cable from Screwfix is http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?id=22591&ts=20231 It also comes in black (search for PF100). -- Alan news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com |
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writes Ladies and Gents, Apologies for the confusion, I am a novice to all this so I'll start again. I have a labgear pcs120 sitting just under the eves of my house accessible from a step ladder. It's been up there for about a year. There are two feeds coming from it, one to the main TV in the lounge and one into the main bedroom. It's one of these. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...2&cname=Masthe ad%20Products&plid=8&sc1name=Combiners%20Splitter s%20Filters&sc2name=&pi d=23&pname=PSC120 How easy or difficult would it be to swap this out for a four way one and run another two feeds out. One to another bedroom and one to the kitchen. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...8&cname=Networ k%20Taps%20and%20Splitters&plid=26&sc1name=UHF%20 Splitters&sc2name=&pid= 113&pname=FJU704 It looks the same (to me) as the PCS120 only it has four outlets not two? The cable runs would be about 12mts to 15mts, and both runs are easy and straight forward. Is there anything I should look out for such as signal drop, noise etc. At the moment as things stand the picture is very good to both freeview boxes and the signal strength on my Humax PVR9200 in the lounge shows 65/70% and signal quality shows as 100%. Thanks to Piers James for pointing me in the right direction for CT100 cable. Is the stuff on the screwfix site http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...72308&ts=18671 the same or as good as CT100. Loads of questions I know, but your help here would be very much appreciated. I can't see any problem, except that loss of the 4-way splitter will be appx 3.7dB more than for the 2-way (say 8dB maximum). You will also lose another 2 or 3dB in the coax. The total loss from input to splitter to TV set will therefore be roughly 10dB. As what you have already is working OK with the existing coax drops (which are probably as least as long as the new ones), you will really only experience the addition splitter loss. As the present signal strength 65/70%, I reckon you'll get away with it. -- Ian. |
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"housetrained" wrote in message ... Why not stay in this afternoon and fix it? Did you go John. Gotta say we were cr*p Mel. LOL -- John the West Ham fan "Mel" wrote in message ... Ladies and Gents, Apologies for the confusion, I am a novice to all this so I'll start again. I have a labgear pcs120 sitting just under the eves of my house accessible from a step ladder. It's been up there for about a year. There are two feeds coming from it, one to the main TV in the lounge and one into the main bedroom. It's one of these. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...3&pname=PSC120 How easy or difficult would it be to swap this out for a four way one and run another two feeds out. One to another bedroom and one to the kitchen. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...3&pname=FJU704 It looks the same (to me) as the PCS120 only it has four outlets not two? The cable runs would be about 12mts to 15mts, and both runs are easy and straight forward. Is there anything I should look out for such as signal drop, noise etc. At the moment as things stand the picture is very good to both freeview boxes and the signal strength on my Humax PVR9200 in the lounge shows 65/70% and signal quality shows as 100%. Thanks to Piers James for pointing me in the right direction for CT100 cable. Is the stuff on the screwfix site http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...72308&ts=18671 the same or as good as CT100. Loads of questions I know, but your help here would be very much appreciated. Mel. Gravity is a myth The Earth Sucks. |
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Yes and yes we were.
You should have stayed home and fixed the aerial, I should have stayed home and fixed my neighbours drawers. -- John the West Ham fan "Mel" wrote in message ... "housetrained" wrote in message ... Why not stay in this afternoon and fix it? Did you go John. Gotta say we were cr*p Mel. LOL -- John the West Ham fan "Mel" wrote in message ... Ladies and Gents, Apologies for the confusion, I am a novice to all this so I'll start again. I have a labgear pcs120 sitting just under the eves of my house accessible from a step ladder. It's been up there for about a year. There are two feeds coming from it, one to the main TV in the lounge and one into the main bedroom. It's one of these. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...3&pname=PSC120 How easy or difficult would it be to swap this out for a four way one and run another two feeds out. One to another bedroom and one to the kitchen. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...3&pname=FJU704 It looks the same (to me) as the PCS120 only it has four outlets not two? The cable runs would be about 12mts to 15mts, and both runs are easy and straight forward. Is there anything I should look out for such as signal drop, noise etc. At the moment as things stand the picture is very good to both freeview boxes and the signal strength on my Humax PVR9200 in the lounge shows 65/70% and signal quality shows as 100%. Thanks to Piers James for pointing me in the right direction for CT100 cable. Is the stuff on the screwfix site http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...72308&ts=18671 the same or as good as CT100. Loads of questions I know, but your help here would be very much appreciated. Mel. Gravity is a myth The Earth Sucks. |
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"housetrained" wrote in message ... Yes and yes we were. You should have stayed home and fixed the aerial, I should have stayed home and fixed my neighbours drawers. ?????????????????? What type of drawers Mel. -- John the West Ham fan "Mel" wrote in message ... "housetrained" wrote in message ... Why not stay in this afternoon and fix it? Did you go John. Gotta say we were cr*p Mel. LOL -- John the West Ham fan "Mel" wrote in message ... Ladies and Gents, Apologies for the confusion, I am a novice to all this so I'll start again. I have a labgear pcs120 sitting just under the eves of my house accessible from a step ladder. It's been up there for about a year. There are two feeds coming from it, one to the main TV in the lounge and one into the main bedroom. It's one of these. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...3&pname=PSC120 How easy or difficult would it be to swap this out for a four way one and run another two feeds out. One to another bedroom and one to the kitchen. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...3&pname=FJU704 It looks the same (to me) as the PCS120 only it has four outlets not two? The cable runs would be about 12mts to 15mts, and both runs are easy and straight forward. Is there anything I should look out for such as signal drop, noise etc. At the moment as things stand the picture is very good to both freeview boxes and the signal strength on my Humax PVR9200 in the lounge shows 65/70% and signal quality shows as 100%. Thanks to Piers James for pointing me in the right direction for CT100 cable. Is the stuff on the screwfix site http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...72308&ts=18671 the same or as good as CT100. Loads of questions I know, but your help here would be very much appreciated. Mel. Gravity is a myth The Earth Sucks. |
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My neighbours front has dropped off her drawer as in chest of drawers and
I'm down to fix it back on with 2 3"brackets and nuts and bolts. Then guess what? Her daughters drawer dropped off too. You couldn't make it up. -- John the West Ham fan "Mel" wrote in message ... "housetrained" wrote in message ... Yes and yes we were. You should have stayed home and fixed the aerial, I should have stayed home and fixed my neighbours drawers. ?????????????????? What type of drawers Mel. -- John the West Ham fan "Mel" wrote in message ... "housetrained" wrote in message ... Why not stay in this afternoon and fix it? Did you go John. Gotta say we were cr*p Mel. LOL -- John the West Ham fan "Mel" wrote in message ... Ladies and Gents, Apologies for the confusion, I am a novice to all this so I'll start again. I have a labgear pcs120 sitting just under the eves of my house accessible from a step ladder. It's been up there for about a year. There are two feeds coming from it, one to the main TV in the lounge and one into the main bedroom. It's one of these. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...3&pname=PSC120 How easy or difficult would it be to swap this out for a four way one and run another two feeds out. One to another bedroom and one to the kitchen. http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...3&pname=FJU704 It looks the same (to me) as the PCS120 only it has four outlets not two? The cable runs would be about 12mts to 15mts, and both runs are easy and straight forward. Is there anything I should look out for such as signal drop, noise etc. At the moment as things stand the picture is very good to both freeview boxes and the signal strength on my Humax PVR9200 in the lounge shows 65/70% and signal quality shows as 100%. Thanks to Piers James for pointing me in the right direction for CT100 cable. Is the stuff on the screwfix site http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...72308&ts=18671 the same or as good as CT100. Loads of questions I know, but your help here would be very much appreciated. Mel. Gravity is a myth The Earth Sucks. |
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