Freesat and Freeview wall socket

chateauneufdupape

I have a singlw wall socket for a normal tv aerial. I am going to install Freesat+, so will need two extra cables. Is there a faceplate that I can replace the single one with that will accept the 3 cables? Or will I have to fit a new double socket next to it. Also, is a Sky socket the sme as a fresat socket?

Owain_Moneysaver

Yes.

TV, FM, 2 sat feeds.

yangptangkipperbang

Don't muck about with faceplates. Bring the cables straight to the Satellite receiver, you will not get any signal loss problems then.

Kurtis_Blue

Yes and No, you wont get a single sized facia plate that excepts 2xSat cables and one TV, a quadplexed http://www.screwfix.com/p/screened-quadplexed-module-white/73677 plate will provide 2xSat and one TV but you will need to combine the Sat and TV feds before cabling two runs to the plate.

chateauneufdupape

Sounds like a seperate wall plate or run it straight into the receiver as yangptangkipperbang suggests. Thanks for your help.

spike7451

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

Don't muck about with faceplates. Bring the cables straight to the Satellite receiver, you will not get any signal loss problems then.

I agree,Best bet would be to run an un-broken run of cable from the LNB to the satellite box,especially if you are going down the HD route.

yorkie98

To stop yourself comng unstuck, run a 4th cable down for a return feed, inevitably, there will come a time when you decide you'd like to be able to watch the Sky/Freesat in another room, the 4th cable will allow you to loop the signals back up to the loft and down to a bedroom etc.
Use WF100 type cable for all runs. For digital signals, this is the only acceptable cable that has low loss at satellite frequencies and screening to prevent interferance. If you are tight for space then use WF65 twin (shotgun) cable, its thinner but has two cables which take up roughly the same space as one normal coax. It is still double screened but should not be used in very long runs at it has a bit more loss than the thicker cable.

almillar

Just to re-iterate - you want NO breaks in the satellite cables from dish to receiver, the signal does degrade. Even if you think you've got away with it in the dry, the rain or snow will make the signal worse and you could lose picture.
On whatever faceplate you choose, you can break away at a bottom corner of the faceplate (attack it with pliers) to make a gap for the shotgun cable to get out of, and that's as neat as you should need to be.

spike7451

almillar wrote: »

Just to re-iterate - you want NO breaks in the satellite cables from dish to receiver, the signal does degrade. Even if you think you've got away with it in the dry, the rain or snow will make the signal worse and you could lose picture.
On whatever faceplate you choose, you can break away at a bottom corner of the faceplate (attack it with pliers) to make a gap for the shotgun cable to get out of, and that's as neat as you should need to be.

Yup,as I said above but not so elequently...:p.....
Broken or badly joined cable causes a fair whack of service calls,one of the main ones,more common with single LNB's, is the dish monkey sealing the F connection on the dish with electrical tape & not self amalgamating tape,water gets into the cable,runs down it & rots the metal stinger core at a joint or runs into the Sky box.The water ingress can also be caused by the cable rubbing on the apex of the roofline.

Idiophreak

Interesting thread. Our new build flat came with something similar to what Kurtis_Blue linked to ready installed. Freview and Freesat work just fine, never thought about signal degradation. Of course, I've no idea how this is achieved

Kurtis_Blue

Idiophreak wrote: »

Interesting thread. Our new build flat came with something similar to what Kurtis_Blue linked to ready installed. Freview and Freesat work just fine, never thought about signal degradation. Of course, I've no idea how this is achieved

Its not an issue, correctly installed quality sockets and cable will be fine dB loss is minimal, possibly immeasurable.

However if its a DIY job then maybe best left out if not required, as is seen often on these forums and in the field, more connectors = more problems.