Decent distribution amp for loft

After a rearrangement of the living room which resulted in the telly moving
I've now got 2 x SAT & 1 x UHF leads extended from the old telly location
trailing along the living room to the new location. As I'm now DIY retired
I'm getting a tame Virgin Media installer to come & do all the rerouting,
drilling & ladder work for me.

This is an ideal opportunity to get some gubbins in the loft, as I plan to
put a telly in another downstairs room & have a young 'un who'll no doubt
want a telly in his room soon. Presently the 3 cables come from the dish &
aerial straight to the living room.

So, any recommendations for a decent distribution amp that will do the TV &
SAT? I currently have a Quad LNB, but am not averse to changing it to a
Quattro if required. Not overly fussed about cost, as long as it keeps
going & outlives me.

Cheers

CD

On 07/08/2012 13:49, CD wrote:
After a rearrangement of the living room which resulted in the telly moving
I've now got 2 x SAT& 1 x UHF leads extended from the old telly location
trailing along the living room to the new location. As I'm now DIY retired
I'm getting a tame Virgin Media installer to come& do all the rerouting,
drilling& ladder work for me.

This is an ideal opportunity to get some gubbins in the loft, as I plan to
put a telly in another downstairs room& have a young 'un who'll no doubt
want a telly in his room soon. Presently the 3 cables come from the dish&
aerial straight to the living room.

So, any recommendations for a decent distribution amp that will do the TV&
SAT? I currently have a Quad LNB, but am not averse to changing it to a
Quattro if required. Not overly fussed about cost, as long as it keeps
going& outlives me.

Cheers

CD

For satellite distribution a quattro really is your friend. I have such
a system installed, based around a Triax LNB and Antiference switch.
This handles sat/tv/fm/dab distribution to all rooms in the house. One
of Bill W's colleagues, Keith (insert surname here) did the work for me
~5 years ago now, and touch wood, it's largely been trouble feee.

HTH


Clem

CD wrote:
After a rearrangement of the living room which resulted in the telly moving
I've now got 2 x SAT & 1 x UHF leads extended from the old telly location
trailing along the living room to the new location. As I'm now DIY retired
I'm getting a tame Virgin Media installer to come & do all the rerouting,
drilling & ladder work for me.

This is an ideal opportunity to get some gubbins in the loft, as I plan to
put a telly in another downstairs room & have a young 'un who'll no doubt
want a telly in his room soon. Presently the 3 cables come from the dish &
aerial straight to the living room.

So, any recommendations for a decent distribution amp that will do the TV &
SAT? I currently have a Quad LNB, but am not averse to changing it to a
Quattro if required. Not overly fussed about cost, as long as it keeps
going & outlives me.

Cheers

CD
Do you need satellite feeds in other rooms? If so how many feeds to each
room and how many rooms?

Bill

On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:08:40 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Do you need satellite feeds in other rooms? If so how many feeds to each
room and how many rooms?

Bill

Yes, should have said, for future proofing I wouldn't mind a couple more
dual sat feeds, say 4 in total including the main TV. I also didn't mention
that the UHF aerial has a masthead amp, so will need some juice going to
that too.

CD

CD wrote:
On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:08:40 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Do you need satellite feeds in other rooms? If so how many feeds to each
room and how many rooms?

Bill

Yes, should have said, for future proofing I wouldn't mind a couple more
dual sat feeds, say 4 in total including the main TV.
Two more dual feeds plus the main TV is six feeds. You could use an octo
LNB but my preference is a multiswitch.

I also didn't mention
that the UHF aerial has a masthead amp, so will need some juice going to
that too.

A multiswitch will carry UHF signals on all outputs, so you could use
one and fit diplexed/triplexed wall plates, or if the m/switch has
enough outputs run separate feeds from it for UHF and SAT (all feeds
will be carrying both in reality).

You can't run a Sky remote eye system via a m/switch so if you want to
do that use an octo or m/switch for satellite and a separate UHF amp for
UHF, and have separate feeds of course for SAT and UHF.

Bill

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:18:57 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

A multiswitch will carry UHF signals on all outputs, so you could use
one and fit diplexed/triplexed wall plates, or if the m/switch has
enough outputs run separate feeds from it for UHF and SAT (all feeds
will be carrying both in reality).

I'd like as few cables/holes in wall as possible. Is this the sort of wall
plate you mean?

http://tinyurl.com/dycswde

For 2 x Sat & 1 x UHF how many downleads would one of these need? I'm
guessing 2?

There's no sky remote malarkey going on, just distribution, any
recommendations on a particular switch?

Thanks

CD

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:49:52 +0100, CD wrote:

After a rearrangement of the living room which resulted in the telly moving
I've now got 2 x SAT & 1 x UHF leads extended from the old telly location
trailing along the living room to the new location. As I'm now DIY retired
I'm getting a tame Virgin Media installer to come & do all the rerouting,
drilling & ladder work for me.

This is an ideal opportunity to get some gubbins in the loft, as I plan to
put a telly in another downstairs room & have a young 'un who'll no doubt
want a telly in his room soon. Presently the 3 cables come from the dish &
aerial straight to the living room.

So, any recommendations for a decent distribution amp that will do the TV &
SAT? I currently have a Quad LNB, but am not averse to changing it to a
Quattro if required. Not overly fussed about cost, as long as it keeps
going & outlives me.

Cheers

CD

How about a triax multiswitch

http://www.satellitesuperstore.co.uk...switch.htm#5in
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Cheers

Peter

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"CD" wrote in message
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After a rearrangement of the living room which resulted in the telly
moving
I've now got 2 x SAT & 1 x UHF leads extended from the old telly location
trailing along the living room to the new location. As I'm now DIY retired
I'm getting a tame Virgin Media installer to come & do all the rerouting,
drilling & ladder work for me.

This is an ideal opportunity to get some gubbins in the loft, as I plan to
put a telly in another downstairs room & have a young 'un who'll no doubt
want a telly in his room soon. Presently the 3 cables come from the dish &
aerial straight to the living room.

So, any recommendations for a decent distribution amp that will do the TV
&
SAT? I currently have a Quad LNB, but am not averse to changing it to a
Quattro if required. Not overly fussed about cost, as long as it keeps
going & outlives me.

Cheers

CD

Aerial &
Quad LNB - 5x4 multiswitch (e.g. EMP Centauri, but there are loads around).
Could add FM / DAB via dipole.

4 leads to triplex wall plates.

Remove masthead amp and (if absolutely necessary) get a better aerial.

CD wrote:

I'd like as few cables/holes in wall as possible. Is this the sort of wall
plate you mean?

http://tinyurl.com/dycswde
yes, that sort of thing.


For 2 x Sat & 1 x UHF how many downleads would one of these need? I'm
guessing 2?
You are correct. Both cables carry all signals but only one is triplexed
at the bottom.


There's no sky remote malarkey going on, just distribution, any
recommendations on a particular switch?

Not really. Check it has DC power on the terrestrial input. Avoid the
very cheap ones. Vision, Hirschmann, Televes, etc, they're all OK.

The type you want is known as five input, x outputs, where x is the
number of feeds out, usually 12, 18, or 24. Make sure you get a mains
powered one.

Bill

Peter wrote:

How about a triax multiswitch

http://www.satellitesuperstore.co.uk...switch.htm#5in

Yes, I'm getting to like Triax gear more these days. I used some of
their big-ass satellite amps recently and they were pretty good, and
I've been working on a newish flats system (installed by others) that
used Triax switches and they seem fine. Didn't used to like their stuff
at one time.

Bill