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majoco

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#157252 25-Nov-2014 10:57
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Hi guys,
I've recently moved into a house in Ashhurst where I can see the Wharite transmitter. There is an old style Sky terrestrial antenna feeding a four-way splitter in the roof space with drops to the master bedroom, one to one end of the lounge, two to the family room, one of which has another two-way splitter to the existing outlet and other through the wall to the lounge again! Since I have bought a Panasonic PVR I am marginal for signal after going through two splitters in the family room especially in rain. I don't use three of the drops! Should I a) remove the four way splitter and just feed the two way, b) put dummy loads on the unused drops, c) get a better antenna or d) bite the bullet and put in a masthead amplifier. Thanks in advance.

Cheers - Martin.

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majoco

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  #1230629 3-Feb-2015 15:42
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Hi Guys,

Thanks for all the good info, so here's an update. I kept the old Sky terrestrial on the eastern end of the house and it just supplies one drop into the main bedroom - no splitters and RG59 all the way - good picture through a Dish TV decoder.

New antenna down the western end with RG6 to a two way splitter to two new wall plates, new F connectors and cable, new Sony TV KDL32W TV in the family room via a Panasonic DMR-XW390 PVR and the original Sony 42" in the lounge, Sky dish (but no Sky box) to a Dish Satbox in the lounge too.

Brilliant pix on all TV's, heaps of signal, no dropouts due to foliage or torrential rain (not that we've had much) and I've lost a couple of kilos of sweat clambering around in the roof space in the hot hot sun!

The new antenna is a Lincrad 02MM-804 up about 5 metres direct line of sight to Wharite.

Cheers - Martin

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