Distributing freeview to other receivers

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atwuk

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#91227 8-Oct-2011 18:55

I have sky which is distributed to several rooms in my house, I have decided to install free view so
my wife can have a better selection while I am watching sport. Have installed a splitter and Sat /Ter
Diplexer transmitting sky on Ter and sat on the sat connection. Problem I have is I get sky still at
all locations but not sat signal out of diplexer at the set .I have connected the freeview direct to the income from the dish and
still no signal .Clearly freeview requires a better signal to work than Sky so is this a problem with my
dish or maybe just an adjustment required.Anyones suggestions much appreciated .

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#530975 8-Oct-2011 19:00

Are you able to easily run an additional RG6 Coax cable to each location?

If you you could run a clear sat feed and a second RF feed which would simply things.

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#530984 8-Oct-2011 19:47

Unfortunately not easily I pre wired the house when Built it and being two storied ,no basement and very little roof space it is not possible to install and additional wiring .

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#530987 8-Oct-2011 19:51

I'm completely confused by what you're actually trying to do. Are you looking to feed a UHF signal around the house for Freeview|HD or a satellite signal for Freeview?

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#530992 8-Oct-2011 19:56

Has the freeview decoder ever worked, if not is the LNB LO setting (10750 or 11300 MHz) correct??

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#531002 8-Oct-2011 20:19

I am transmitting the out put from my sky decoder on the uhf side of the Diplexer and the direct sat connection on the sat side of the diplexer,I believe the main problem I have is the lack of signal through the free view decoder even off the incoming line direct from the Dish.I thought as I had good sky reception the freeview should also be OK. No this is a new decoder a dish tvs s7070 previous one I have instaled were just plug and play.

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#531050 8-Oct-2011 23:07

I'm also very confused about what you are doing.
I think you are using RF out from the Sky box to get Sky on your TV?
From reading the Dish manual it seems you need to do the same with the Freeview box?
Therefore you need to combine both UHF outputs via a diplexer to the TV and I don't think a Sat/Ter diplexer will work.
Feeding the Sky rf out via the Freeview box rf in and out to the TV might work in place of a diplexer?
Using RF out to the TV will give a crap picture anyway and you should be using at least composite video and preferably component video if there is no HDMI out.

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#531092 9-Oct-2011 08:17

atwuk: I am transmitting the out put from my sky decoder on the uhf side of the Diplexer and the direct sat connection on the sat side of the diplexer,I believe the main problem I have is the lack of signal through the free view decoder even off the incoming line direct from the Dish.I thought as I had good sky reception the freeview should also be OK. No this is a new decoder a dish tvs s7070 previous one I have instaled were just plug and play.

L band signal strength from dish, be it Freeview or Sky is irrelevant unless your cable runs are very long, as all transponders are of equal power off same satellite with same polarity.

Have the f type connectors been crimped with a tool or merely the push on variety??

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#531095 9-Oct-2011 08:23

The F type connector is the screw on type, what I don't understand is why the sky reception is great but using the same cable from the dish and removing it from the sky decoder and connecting it to the freeview decoder I recieve the no signal message .If I can overcome this the rest should not be a problem.

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#531102 9-Oct-2011 08:50

Well that sounds like the freeview decoder doesn't have the correct settings in it.
Are you sure the lnb and transponder settings are correct in the freeview box?

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#531118 9-Oct-2011 10:07

atwuk: The F type connector is the screw on type, what I don't understand is why the sky reception is great but using the same cable from the dish and removing it from the sky decoder and connecting it to the freeview decoder I recieve the no signal message .If I can overcome this the rest should not be a problem.

As said earlier for a decoder to receive signal the LNB LO frequency should be set correctly to either 11300 or 10750 MHz depending on the LNB on your dish. LNB voltage should be on and 22 kHz off.

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#531139 9-Oct-2011 11:32

Thanks for your help guys I now have it working with output from sky decoder and sat in all 7 rooms, the Sat strength is down a little at the longest run but still works .I will still work at reducing any loss on the longer runs which are about 25 m from my distribution point.Sorry some of you couldn't understand what I was attempting but I got there in the end. The problem was just the set up of the freeview decoder which although they say are plug and play obviously some times they are not.

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#531173 9-Oct-2011 14:46

Glad you got it working. I think I fanally figured out what you are doing.
Just a query. Are you using a sat splitter for the input co ax to the two boxes or are you cascading them?

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#531181 9-Oct-2011 15:31

Using a two way double bypass splitter on incoming dish cable one side to Sky decoder other to sat side of diplexer ,out put from sky decoder to TER side of Diplexer and then additional diplexers at each TV to separate them out again