RE: Audio/Video distribution

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Quinten,

Most, if not all, satellite receivers will have an "RF
Loopthrough" for the
terrestrial aerial.

What you need to do is this


TV Aerial ----------------- RF IN
Satellite Receiver
Sat Dish ------------------ LNB IN


Sat Recr RF OUT ---------DISTRIBUTION AMP ----------TV1
----------TV2
----------TV3

To do that your TV aerail needs to come direct to the satellite receiver
and
then the output of the satellite  feed the distribution amp and then all
your TV's. That will require 2 additional coax cables from the satellite
receiver to the loft.

If you want to reduce the amount of cable you need to run, then you can use
the modulator you bought like this

TV Aerial - Modulator - Dist Amp - TVs
I
I__KAT5RX_______cat5cable ____KAT5TX__Satellite

In this example you fit the modulator in the loft before the distribution
amp and feed it from the SCART output of the Satellite using a set of KAT5
modules and a length of CAT5 cable.

There is no way to do it without running some cable. The first option is
the
cheapest. Although KAT5 can feed the signal to the loft for your modulator
you wont see the real benefit of using KAT5 as the picture will be degraded
by the RF distribution. You could run 2 CAT5 cables to the two bedrooms to
gain the maximum benefit of KAT5.

Hope that helps

Keith


-----Original Message-----
From: Quinten Uijldert [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 November 2001 22:49
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Audio/Video distribution


Hi all,

Even after going through the search-archives at www.ukha-archive.com (it
works excellent btw, good work!) I could not find an answer to the
following.

I have a terrestial signal coming in on the loft (is this what we call node
0?) which is distributed into 3 rooms (living, bedroom 1 and 2). I also
have
a satellite signal (canal+) coming in, in the living room (but could easily
go into the loft as well. Now what I would like is to have the satellite
signal feed into the terrestial signal so I can see the satellite picture
in
all rooms.

I understand that I need a modulator, which I bought from Keene (£15) but
this doesn't work at all... Is this because the modulator (that I got) is a
cheap nasty device, or because modulation doesn't work with the
sat-receiver? Or would you advise against this method and suggest something
different? I'm open for all suggestions and although breaking up the walls
is not an option to run cable, there is nothing stopping me from replacing
the brown coax with something else (do I hear someone say 2 ct100? or even
cat5?).

Many thanks,

Q.


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