Help- extending a satelite cable
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New member Username: Crustybobby64Greenville, NC Post Number: 1 Registered: May-06 | Hi, I've got direct tv for my house, one plugin runs up from the ground in the living room and one from a room on the opposite side of the house as my room. The guy in that room moved out and what I need to do is to extend that satelite cable that's running up from the ground, it's only about four feet long and I'm about 35' away, I bought an RG-6 cable that came with a ground from radio shack, under thier advisement, and ran it to a "High quality splitter" that was already laying around the house, it splits into two 8db plugins and one 4db plugins ( whatever DB's are). I can't pick up a signal using my cable from radio shack at all. I found some kind of cable (according to the satelite booklet it's an RF-6 I think) and plugged that to the splitter, and ran it to the satellite box. This still didn't work. So I'm assuming the problem is the splitter.... So how to I extend this satellite cable? |
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Bronze Member Username: VinidominePost Number: 27 Registered: May-06 | Cannot use splitters, you're right. try this ugly little thing here: http://www.a1components.com/images/thumbs/sky01110zt.jpg Vini. |
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Silver Member Username: WoofyOntario Canada Post Number: 146 Registered: Feb-06 | Hey Brandon..not that i pretend to be an expert..you may get better advice..but normaly you cannot use everday splitters for satellite..what i would suggest is an inline amplifier (about $6-8 bucks) add it to the short end of the rg6..then buy another 35ft or whatever you need of rg6 cable to add to the amp..then to your t.v. best i can do.. |
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Silver Member Username: WoofyOntario Canada Post Number: 148 Registered: Feb-06 | Here's a pic..just google you can find them anywhere. |
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