Cleaned up the coax

[azdryheat]

We had some issues recently with lousy to none satellite reception. Upon investigation I learned the coax that Voltage uses is satellite rated so that wasn't the issue. One of the problems was the cable splitter coming off the living room TV, which was rated only to 1000 Mhz, which is too low for a satellite signal, or so I learned. Installed a satellite rated splitter, 3.5Ghz as satellite needs the higher numbers, and all is well.

The other thing I learned is that coax is real sensitive about kinks and such. My old, worn out cable connecting the dish to the trailer was in bad shape, so much so, that I thought my sat finder was broken. Got some new RG-6 quad-coated sat. rated coax and got a great signal into the trailer and the sat finder started working again.

[Pirate]

Hmmm....our new 3800 is wired with RG6 coax, but the output from the DirecTV HD DVR is one HDMI.

So I'm working with HDTV Supply to get an HDMI splitter, with four output HDMIs, then three HDMI to coax "sets".

Then the "sender" is connected to the HDMI splitter with a short HDMI cable, the sender is then connected to the RG6 coax in the wall. Then a "receiver" that connects to the RG6 coax and the output is an HDMI to the TV.

They say it will work great. My reading says yes, but I'll wait until I get it all installed. But it will be nice to have DirecTV to all four TVs in the trailer!

Time will tell!

Pirate

[Bulldog80]

Pirate will you keep me posted on what you end up with? I've never heard of being able to transmit hdmi signals through coax. I've read about ways to do it through cat5 and cat7 but never rg6