Re: Sky Installation / UHF boosters

[Frank Mooney <fm@xxxxxxx>]

Surely the installation guy should only be concerned with the signal from a
dish
to an STB what happens after that is of no concern to him and will have no
effect on the service he should be providing.

"James, Daniel" wrote:

> Morning all
>
> My father in law had sky "installed" yesterday. And the
installation chap
> removed their UHF booster from the TV aerial, as he said it would
"blow up"
> the sky box.
>
> Now this was news to me. Is their any reason why he cannot have a
booster on
> his TV aerial, and then running the RF chain through the sky box and
video?
> (snowy picture without it!)
>
> anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> Also his booster is in the lounge, and there is a single aerial cable
coming
> from the loft distributor to the lounge, if we remove the booster from
this,
> the other TVs (which are fed from the splitter in the loft) don't get
a good
> signal. - has anyone come across this? Tis a new one on me (I would
have
> thought the booster should be in the loft before the splitter?)
>
> Regards
>
> Daniel
>
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