Sky

[rockape]

Sorry, this is not a MH question. I am nearing completion of a BIG build at my place at the moment.
My question is this, at present I have Sky delivering my package from a Sat direct to the back of my Sky box, and ideally I want to move my Sky box at least 20 mts from its original position to its new ( intended ) location.
The Sky dish ,as I can see, is a 4 port LND , 2 of which run to my Sky box, during the course of the new build I had ran a single coax back into the roof space ready , ideally , to connect to the Sat and back to the Sky box.
Can anyone see any issues /problems connecting back to the new location.

One issue is that the ceilings are vaulted and may not be an option to run a new coax if needed, and I am a bit anal as I don,t want to surface fix cables /coaxes surface externally as I feel that it is a little untidy

 

[Robmac]

We have 2 sky boxes Mike. One is connected through the wall straight into the first box. The second is about 35 metres away.

We too have a vaulted ceiling in the lounge, but we didn't have a cable ready installed, so they ran a cable around the bungalow inside the soffits and through the bedroom wall. This must have added at least 5 metres to the run.

I'm not sure what the cable is, but I will have a look tomorrow in daylight.

 

[colinm]

A couple of q's, when you say co-ax, do you mean the twin co-ax sky cable or just some random co-ax cable? Is it a skybox with hard disc recorder or just a receiver? To record correctly a skybox needs twin (or two) sat co-ax's.

 

[oldish hippy]

most modern sky boxes have a twin feed thatis to give you a record facilty whilst watching one channel you can watch another they do a modern cable which is dual cable about the same diameter as old cable so you need to connect that to lnb and run to where you need it

 

[saxonborg]

My Sky box is at least 20 metres from the dish connected with the original twin RF CABLE that they use for their boxes. The only time we have had a signal problem is when the dish was covered in snow.

 

[Robmac]

Hi Mike,

Ours is twin cable, although not as long a run as I thought as they have taken a different route across a flat roof at the back, so the length is probably about 15 metres.

We rarely get signal problems, and when we do, it is more likely atmospheric conditions than anything else.

 

[harrow]

Sorry, this is not a MH question. I am nearing completion of a BIG build at my place at the moment.
My question is this, at present I have Sky delivering my package from a Sat direct to the back of my Sky box, and ideally I want to move my Sky box at least 20 mts from its original position to its new ( intended ) location.
The Sky dish ,as I can see, is a 4 port LND , 2 of which run to my Sky box, during the course of the new build I had ran a single coax back into the roof space ready , ideally , to connect to the Sat and back to the Sky box.
Can anyone see any issues /problems connecting back to the new location.

One issue is that the ceilings are vaulted and may not be an option to run a new coax if needed, and I am a bit anal as I don,t want to surface fix cables /coaxes surface externally as I feel that it is a little untidy

In simple terms the cables have to get from the satellite dish to the sky box, it's up to you how much time you spend doing it, bare in mind the coax cable don't want a bend radius of less than about 50mm as you turn around corners

They will crease and get damaged if you bend them too tightly.

:wave::wave::wave:

 

[saxonborg]

Just a small point, the normal coaxial cables that you associate with normal television aerials have a multistranded core whilst the cable used to connect up to LNBs has a solid centre wire which carries a small amount of power to drive the LNB. I wouldn't use the normal coax for that situation.