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<blockquote data-quote="BadBehaviour" data-source="post: 890671" data-attributes="member: 402462"><p>I have purchased a sky HD box to be able to view FTA channels (I have a Sky viewing card for the FTV channels too). </p><p></p><p>The previous tenant had a Sky subscription so the dish was already installed. We have an aerial up on the roof but we get only about 25 channels, and half of them are just the +1 versions I'd say, so no good. </p><p></p><p>I have no experience with satellite TV and the various cables. There is a cable that goes from the dish inside the front room and then there is this mysterious cable that seems to just go from the front room up to our bedroom. I checked outside and the cable is not connected to the dish outside or the aerial... it just connects the front room with the bedroom, but I can't see why they would have done that without any apparent purpose. </p><p></p><p>I want to be able to use the Sky box upstairs, but there doesn't seem to be a cable getting there from the dish. The mysterious cable seems to fit in the RF out connector on the Sky box. So, my question is, can I leave the box downstairs and get the FTA channels in the bedroom If I connect to the TV upstairs the mysterious cable plugged downstairs into the Sky box? </p><p>The mysterious cable is quite short upstairs and so, if all that is feasible, I would need to extend it somehow. You can see a pic of what the connector of the mysterious cable upstairs looks like at this link:<a href="http://i62.tinypic.com/a0jk1k.jpg" target="_blank">http://i62.tinypic.com/a0jk1k.jpg</a>. </p><p>What type of extension would I need to then plug it into the TV?</p><p></p><p>Sorry if I didn't maybe explain everything too well, and thanks in advance for any reply.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BadBehaviour, post: 890671, member: 402462"] I have purchased a sky HD box to be able to view FTA channels (I have a Sky viewing card for the FTV channels too). The previous tenant had a Sky subscription so the dish was already installed. We have an aerial up on the roof but we get only about 25 channels, and half of them are just the +1 versions I'd say, so no good. I have no experience with satellite TV and the various cables. There is a cable that goes from the dish inside the front room and then there is this mysterious cable that seems to just go from the front room up to our bedroom. I checked outside and the cable is not connected to the dish outside or the aerial... it just connects the front room with the bedroom, but I can't see why they would have done that without any apparent purpose. I want to be able to use the Sky box upstairs, but there doesn't seem to be a cable getting there from the dish. The mysterious cable seems to fit in the RF out connector on the Sky box. So, my question is, can I leave the box downstairs and get the FTA channels in the bedroom If I connect to the TV upstairs the mysterious cable plugged downstairs into the Sky box? The mysterious cable is quite short upstairs and so, if all that is feasible, I would need to extend it somehow. You can see a pic of what the connector of the mysterious cable upstairs looks like at this link:[url]http://i62.tinypic.com/a0jk1k.jpg[/url]. What type of extension would I need to then plug it into the TV? Sorry if I didn't maybe explain everything too well, and thanks in advance for any reply. [/QUOTE]
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