Yes another Newbie Question! Multireciever setup with TV & FM Aerial

opalfruit

Hi All,
So I've moved into a new house with a satellite dish hanging off the side of it and thought right lets get a good setup going here for tv around the house. There is also a small FM aerial on the chimney stack in the attic as well as a TV aerial on the outside of the house right beside the satellite dish. So here is what I have and what I want to setup:

So I have at the moment, 3 cables in the attic, one from satellite dish, one from TV aerial and one from FM aerial.

I have 4 rooms with tv & fm points in, one of which also has the satellite cable as well from the dish.

Here is what I want to setup:

All 4 rooms with satellite recievers, tv point from aerial and fm point from fm aerial. I want to run one good quality cable (WF100) to each of the 4 rooms to minimise and keep things tidy.

Am I right that its a quad LNB from the satellite dish that I need, so this will add 3 more cables to the existing 3 cables in the attic.
I know I need to use diplexers/triplexers because I want to run one cable behind each wall. The wall plate will then have 3 ports with a diplexer to re-split the signals - one satellite, one tv and one Fm.

What I'm unsure of is what to do with the 6 cables in the attic to get them to one cable run for each of the 4 rooms? 4 cables from the quad LNB on satellite dish, one from tv aerial and one from fm aerial. Do I need to combine the TV Aerial and FM Aerial into 1 cable first before using a kind of multiswitch?

Any pointers would be well recieved or if there is a better way of doing the whole thing I'm open to suggestions. I just want to get it as right as possible first time! Any suggestions on what the best make/model of equipment would be are also welcome.

There is thankfully 2 power sockets in the attic if that helps as well just beside the chimney stack.

Thanks all.

satelliteman

Welcome,

Sounds like there was a 'loftbox' system set up previously.

You require:

1 > Quad LNb and separate sat/uhf/fm diplexers for each of the 4 points but this would not help you if you wanted Sl<y Plus / Sl<y Hd in the future as you would require more satellite IF feeds although this would work fine with four points only.

OR

2 > Systems LNb (quattro) into a 8 way Satellite Multi-switch. UHF, FM and four fixed feeds from the dish into the switch and then connect up your four feeds to the outlets. Change the outlet plates to Triplex Plates (Sat, TV/FM).

This would be a future proof system as you would have four free feeds from the switch which could be connected up later.

Satman

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opalfruit

Hi Satman, many thanks for the info, think I'll go with the last suggestion as its alway good to have future needs in mind.

opalfruit

So now I know what way to setup the satellite, tv and fm around the house I am looking for recommendations for the equipment itself. Can anyone recommend a good quality multiswitch? My Dish is a mesh one with no make/manufacturer on it (was there when we moved into house) so is there anything I need to know about substituting the single lnb for a quattro?

I hear the Triax equipment is supposed to be reputable.

Thanks,

OF

NeroAer

Opalfruit, it sounds like you have got a sl< y mini dish up, if you can get a quattro lnb to fit on there, then bob's your uncle, if not, then you'll need to buy a 60-80cm dish with quattro lnb.

then get a V5 x 8 multi switch and four triax triplexed face plates to finish the job off