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<blockquote data-quote="fazersale" data-source="post: 643800" data-attributes="member: 334513">Hi there,This question comes from Ireland but I imagine the principles are the same as for England.A complete-non-techno friend of mine has asked me (techno but inexperienced with satellite) to install 4 satellite dishes and 4 terrestrial aerials (for local tv) onto his cottage roof. He reckons he can only split a signal from each dish/aerial in two, max, and has a potential 8 tv points - as well as a satellite radio or two - to supply. He's planning on using free-to-air set top boxes at each tv point.I'm trying to avoid turning his roofline into an unsightly mess.I assume it's possible to feed from a single dish to a splitter of some sort then on to individual settop boxes. I've come across something called a Sky 10 way amplifier (no pic but the description should tell you what it does) and wonder is it simply a case of hooking this up to the single dish and running cables to settop boxes around the house. If so I assume I could do the same with a second of these units so as to deal with the terrestrial aerial.As far satellite radio goes, is it possible to tap off from the back of a settop box and feed into a stereo system placed nearby?Thanks for any..er..input.Ian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fazersale, post: 643800, member: 334513"] Hi there, This question comes from Ireland but I imagine the principles are the same as for England. A complete-non-techno friend of mine has asked me (techno but inexperienced with satellite) to install 4 satellite dishes and 4 terrestrial aerials (for local tv) onto his cottage roof. He reckons he can only split a signal from each dish/aerial in two, max, and has a potential 8 tv points - as well as a satellite radio or two - to supply. He's planning on using free-to-air set top boxes at each tv point. I'm trying to avoid turning his roofline into an unsightly mess. I assume it's possible to feed from a single dish to a splitter of some sort then on to individual settop boxes. I've come across something called a Sky 10 way amplifier (no pic but the description should tell you what it does) and wonder is it simply a case of hooking this up to the single dish and running cables to settop boxes around the house. If so I assume I could do the same with a second of these units so as to deal with the terrestrial aerial. As far satellite radio goes, is it possible to tap off from the back of a settop box and feed into a stereo system placed nearby? Thanks for any..er..input. Ian [/QUOTE]

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