My setup...

[t-man]

Hi Guys
Really not sure that this is the right forum for this - but I have a problem with my setup that is giving me headaches, and I'd really appreciate some advice!
I have a pretty standary Sky+ installation in my lounge - nothing special here. But what I have done is connected the RF2 output to the aerial socket in the wall, which basically runs up to the loft, where I have connected this to the cable running to the aerial socket in my bedroom - thus giving me Sky TV in the bedroom, and I even have a MagicEye jobbie so I can change channel. Lovely.
HOWEVER, the picture wasn't great (not awful, but room for improvement) plus I wanted to have the option of terrestrial channels too for the sake of the wife! So I have now fitted a signal booster in the loft. I have used a basic splitter to enable the Sky feed and loft aerial to share the signal input on the booster. The result of all this is that - in my bedroom - I now have ******** terrestrial reception, but the Sky picture quality is bad, and the MagicEye won't work at all. I'm really upset!
Could I be using the wrong booster? Is there another way of setting things up? Any help would be much appreciated!!

 

[Topper]

Well it is a while since you posted and perhaps others are as puzzled as I am. The terrestrial channels you mention are available via your sky stb so what do you mean by saying you want terrestrial for the wife?

The cable run from the RF2 output up to the loft and then back down to the bedroom will introduce some losses but if properly jointed and no loose copper threads on connectors, I would not have thought would cause so much degredation, perhaps the cables are damaged within the wall, a picture hook through the cable or the cable flattened beneath the plaster. I cannot understand where and why you are trying to boost the signal. Can you do a simple drawing showing what you are exactly trying to do it sounds like you are feeding the rf2 out signal into an amplifier and mixing it with a terrestrial signal at this point.

 

[t-man]

Thanks for your response!
Regarding the terrestrial channels, I wanted to make these available in the bedroom so the wife could watch her soaps while I am in the lounge watching sky, but still would like the option of sky in the bedroom.
What I can't seem to get right is how to mix the sky digital signal and the analogue terrestrial system. I am doing this in the loft, where I have a loft aerial and a signal amplifier. But however I connect things up I just end up with either a very poor sky picture, or REALLY bad terrestrial picture.
Where am I going wrong!?
Thanks for your help!!

 

[rolfw]

If you are receiving your signals from Tacolneston, then you could probably use a group combiner in the loft and move your digibox output channel down to one of the lower frequencies.

 

[m0dm0]

Put the aerial into the digibox and then connect RF out to the 2nd TV