Re: Combining Two RF signals

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately that doesn't work - the cable carries a weak version of
the terrestrial channels (albeit not quite strong enough to avoid
grain-o-vision), and this seems to interfere with the signal from the
antenna.

Cheers

Mal

Harry Broomhall wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:02:14 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >My cable box has an RF output, but no RF in, so when it comes to
> >distributing my TV signal around the house, I need a way to
combine the
> >aerial signal with the output from the cable box. Does anyone know
of a
> >device to do this?
> >
> >My cable box output is on channel 65, and all my terrestrial
signals are
> >below channel 40, so presumably they could be filtered and mixed
somehow
> >- I just haven't been able to find any off-the-shelf device to do
it...
> >
>
> Most of the cheap aerial splitters can be used the other way round
> as combiners.
>
> The main point to check is that the terrestial cable isn't
> supplying power to a booster on the aerial itself.
>
> Regards,
> Harry.
>
>