UHF Signal Sender

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Dulouz

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#129606 21-Sep-2013 12:06

Short of laying new cable is there anyway to transmit UHF signal through a house?

I have sky cable in the living room but the UHF cable in a couple of bedrooms. The layout of the house means having a run a UHF cable along the outside roof to where we want it.

We want to hook our Tivo up to the UHF signal.

Thanks,

Amanon

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#899410 21-Sep-2013 13:13

There's no practical way of making a UHF signal "wireless" as it spans across a range of frequency bands.
There are wireless transmitters that can distribute a single channel but that means channel control (in this case the TiVo) will have to be downstairs - not that practical either.. although you have units that come with IR-transmitters so you can use the TiVo remote upstairs whereas the physical box is downstairs. Quality depends on chosen technology - there are AV extenders that use analogue cabling, there are those that use HDMI or network (ethernet) .. but by doing that you will still have to pull a wire through therefore defeating the purpose of not pulling in regular UHF :D

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B1GGLZ

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#900875 22-Sep-2013 21:53

Presumably you want UHF at the same place as your Sky box but have no cable there at present?
You could probably install a diplexer on the roof to feed both UHF and Sky down the sky cable and another reversed one in the lounge to then feed it to the Sky box and Freeview TV or STB.
Suitable diplexers are available.
Doing it wirelessly is not really feasible.

Dulouz

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#901264 23-Sep-2013 14:53

B1GGLZ: Presumably you want UHF at the same place as your Sky box but have no cable there at present?
You could probably install a diplexer on the roof to feed both UHF and Sky down the sky cable and another reversed one in the lounge to then feed it to the Sky box and Freeview TV or STB.
Suitable diplexers are available.
Doing it wirelessly is not really feasible.

Thanks for this - problem is the UHF aerial is no where near the sky dish.

Amanon

B1GGLZ

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#901312 23-Sep-2013 16:05

You could put a second antenna on the roof.
Or if you are close to the Transmitter try an indoor antenna.

CYaBro

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#901326 23-Sep-2013 16:26

Dulouz:
B1GGLZ: Presumably you want UHF at the same place as your Sky box but have no cable there at present?
You could probably install a diplexer on the roof to feed both UHF and Sky down the sky cable and another reversed one in the lounge to then feed it to the Sky box and Freeview TV or STB.
Suitable diplexers are available.
Doing it wirelessly is not really feasible.

Thanks for this - problem is the UHF aerial is no where near the sky dish.

You can't run another cable from the UHF aerial to somewhere where you can tap into the satellite cable and use a diplexer?
Saves having to run another cable all the way to where you want the Tivo and cheaper than putting up a 2nd UFH aerial.

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