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Old 29-08-2007, 17:52
rzj
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I'm looking at a major refurb of the house AV distribution, and I'd just like some experienced comments on my plans.

Right now we have UHF TV distributed around the house, and Sky directly to 3 rooms (1 sky+ and 2 single channel boxes). We now want to have sky+ in several rooms, so I'm looking at a quatro LNB and a multiswitch.

While we're at it, it seems sensible to upgrade the TV aerial as the old one can't get Freeview (I want this for rooms without sky receivers), and also to add DAB into the distribution. Since there's already an FM aerial, that may as well go in too, as the local stations are not on DAB. Signal strength is a bit low for using built-in aerials for DAB, you have to wander around the room to get a lock.

So my plan is to multiplex the TV (analogue and digital), FM, and DAB into the multiswitch and split them all back out at wallplates.

The kit list at present is:
Triax 5x16 Multiswitch
Vision V24-310 TV/DAB/FM Triplexer
Triax 304114 wall plates

The wallplates split SAT1, TV and Radio to 3 outlets, and have a separate SAT2 socket and a BT socket.

The spec on the wallplates has the radio outlet is 87.5-230 MHz so I think it should be OK for DAB or FM.

So is this the right way to go?

Have I chosen the right kit?

I wondered if multiplexing everything down the SAT1 cables was asking for trouble with the signal-to-noise on the digital radio and TV signals, and whether I should have separate down cables for the non-sky stuff.

Also is the TV/radio input to the mulstiswitch going to cope adequately with the signals - especially DAB which may be outside the frequency ranges it was designed for. I've been assuming that since the input takes a signal running from VHF FM radio band up to UHF TV bands that the DAB signal sitting between should be fine.

Finally do I have to swap the sky dish for a round one to get a quatro LNB that fits and are there any recommendations on quatro LNB's?

Thanks for any words of wisdom


Ray
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