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Splitter or Booster! Help!

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Old 18-11-2009, 7:10 PM   #1
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Splitter or Booster! Help!

Hi guys, first post for help.

I'm within 4 miles of uninterrrupted distance from Pontop in Durham

I've a roof top arial with the coaxial running down the outside wall to the living room through the wall into a Sky+HD box.

The RF1 on the Sky+HD is to the main Freeview TV, the RF2 is to a Freeview in the kitchen. Both have excellent reception.

Upstairs i have 3 bedrooms. Bedroom 1 with Sky+ Multiroom, but no standard arial for Freeview.

In the other 2 rooms i want to install Freeview TV's.

Generally we use Sky for viewing, so on the rare occasion i would expect only one TV being used for Freeview, with a max of 2 TV's on at any one time, but probably one will be using Sky.

Whats the best option?

Should i just use a basic cable splitter to each TV or would i need a booster?

I could can use the RF1 and 2 on the second SKY+ box to feed the spare rooms as i will only use Sky in the main bedroom.

In which case would i only need to get a spare coaxial to the room with the second Sky box with RF1 and RF2 going to the 2 other rooms, therefore not needing a booster?

Is this possible.

(You now see my confused state!)
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Old 19-11-2009, 11:55 AM   #2
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Maybe this explains it better, and i've been advised that it should work but if you guys can confirm for me i'd very much appreciate it.

If i'm in the wrong forum, then please let me know!

The problem is the main aerial (external and roof sited) feed comes down the outside wall and in through the wall to the Sky+HD box.

RF1 feeds the TV and RF2 feeds the other downstairs TV in the kitchen.

Upstairs I currently just have Sky+ Multiroom in the main bedroom.

I'm happy just having Sky on this TV, so no need to use either of the RF outputs for this TV.

What I was hoping was to use RF1 to the second bedroom and RF2 to the third bedroom.

The aim was to split the main Aerial feed outside the house.....run one to the main TV downstairs and the other to the main bedroom, so effectively just splitting the signal in two, but using the RF's to feed the 4 TV's. 2 up and 2 down.

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