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Posted by Mark Lloyd on August 23, 2007, 10:15 pm
>I wish to take my present Digital Converter (without leasing
>additional digital converters for each room) and split or run
>additional cable to any room (now supplied by a splitter in the
>attic) by some sort of A-B switch etc. I wish to be able to watch a
>digital channel that's playing in the den when I get tired to watch
>in my bedroom/computer room).
>
>Presently, I have a signal to each room but only allows me to see up
>to channel 73. I just thought that an A-B or something in the line
>would give me additional choice of watching a station above 73 (even
>though it is one channel to watch in the bedroom that I can't get on
>the low-channels.
>
>Is it possible, and if so, how will it be hooked up, any special
>equipment or hookup? Please advise as to what procedures to make
>this work.
>
>thanks!
It sounds like what you want is similar to what I have (although I
have DirecTV rather than digital cable). In any room in the house, I
can watch any analog channel, or watch what the digital box is tuned
to on channel 90.
To set this up you need a modulator (not one of the cheap ch 3/4 ones
but a good versatile one like the one at
http://www.smarthome.com/7760.html ). Connect the modulator to the
output of the digital box, set it to a channel several channels above
anything cable uses, and combine it with cable (a combiner is just a
splitter that's turned around).
If you get interference, you may need to add a low pass filter (such
as http://www.smarthome.com/7822c.html) on the analog cable line (be
sure not to filter the signal to the digital box or a cable modem).
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"God was invented by man for a reason, that
reason is no longer applicable."
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