Re: splitting RF signal

["Dave McLaughlin" <dave@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

The way I did it was to buy one of those cheap RF TV amplifiers from the likes of Craplins or B&Q with the multiple outputs and put one output to each device. I did this with my TV antenna for my TV and the PC-TV card in the computer and got no signal loss.

 

Splitting a signal into multiple inputs just by using a cheap splitter is not a good idea as you are affecting the impedance of the connection and signal loss will be the most likely cause as you have discovered.

 

Dave...

----- Original Message -----

 

From: Nikola Kasic

To: Home automation (E-mail)

Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:44 PM

Subject: [ukha_d] splitting RF signal

Does anyone know how can I split RF signal with minimum signal loss?

At the moment I take the signal from socket to passive splitter (cheap one, bougth at Henrys for £3) then one branch goes into VCR and then into TV. The other one goes into PC TV card and the image is bad with a lot of noise. If i put a TiVo into equation it will be even worse. 

Will using better TV aerial cables make difference (like the ones on www.beyondhifi.net).

Where can I but better quality splitter?

Thanks,

Nik

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