Routing OTA signals throughout house w/splitter?
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When they built our house, I had them run RG6 to every room in the house. I have an outside Terk antenna (piece of crap) that I plan to replace soon with a DIY antenna I built. The question I have is can I use a 4-6way splitter to route the signals to all the rooms, or do I need some type of amplifier to strengthen the signal for some of the longer distances?
All the RG6 is run to a central location in my basement, and since we are 26+ miles form the towers, inside antennas don't cut it to receive all the HD channels.
I noticed Home Depot and Menards have splitters with one input and 4-6 outputs, just wondering if it would be that easy?
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I would run an amplifier on the signal first then to the splitter, this way you should be guaranteed to have good signals to all TV's.
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Jay, don't they sell splitters with a built-in amplifier? Either way, an amplifier is the way to go.
Is there any way that an amplifier could send too high of a signal to say a satellite box with detrimental effects?
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its my understanding that too strong of a ATSC signal can overload the input on the tuner which causes problems similar to weak signals
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Yep, they do sell Splitters with built in amplifiers, I was thinking more along the lines of a single powered amplifier then to a non powered/no gain splitter since he is looking for a rather large number of line outs, this would be a cheaper solution.
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Sirquack,
Make sure the splitter will pass the full HD video bandwidth without degradation. It should have a range of 5 Megahertz to 1.5 Gigahertz in order to avoid any HD signal degradation.
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Thanks everyone... Alan, on the gold splitter I purchased it says 5-2300mhz, so I would guess I'm covered? I'll try hooking it up and see how it works before I worry about an amplifier. My Terk antenna had an amplifier, but I received better performance with it not hooked up. Thanks, Randy
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Randy, if you're not happy with the splitter you purchased, or it's not what Alan was suggesting, I found this site that sells Ultralink splitters that have a 5 MHz to 2 GHz bandwidth. They are the three at the bottom of the page. I think I have a low grade splitter, and I just might pick one of these up myself.
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Those look similar to the one I got, except mine is a 4-way.. If this dang rain ever stops I plan to get it all hooked up.
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I'd be curious about the DIY antenna you built. Ours has to be 20 yrs old.
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