Adding new cable from my sky+ dish?

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I'm on the verge of buying a plasma but i'll be moving my lounge furniture around so i can mount it on the wall. But where i have my tv at the moment i won't have enough cable from my sky dish to run it to new postion on the wall.

So is it a case of just replacing the wire thats connected from my dish?
Do i need special special coaxial to do this? Can it be done without the need to call anyone out to do it?

Thanks for any help

Happy new year to you all
 
you can do this two ways mate:

1. Replace the whole cable from your dish with satellite coaxial cable (shielded ith a silver foil). This means you have 1 cable with two connections at either end, which means less can go wrong with it!!!

2. You can join the cables together with connectors you can get from any B&Q store. I work in B&Q so i know they do them.

either option is fine, i had the same problem as you and i went with option two and my sky+ has never failed.

ace
 
ace2109 said:
you can do this two ways mate:

1. Replace the whole cable from your dish with satellite coaxial cable (shielded ith a silver foil). This means you have 1 cable with two connections at either end, which means less can go wrong with it!!!

2. You can join the cables together with connectors you can get from any B&Q store. I work in B&Q so i know they do them.

either option is fine, i had the same problem as you and i went with option two and my sky+ has never failed.

ace
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Don't use a cable which has silver foil. These are the cheap cables (labelled as satellite) but they aren't good enough. Get one which is copper on copper (CAI approved). This applies even more so if you are running a new cable all the way from the dish.

If I were you i'd just extend the cable using some WF100 or PF100 bought from the bay. Just get the length you need etc. If it's not too bad running a whole new cable then this would be the best way, but use proper cable.

If you join you need to use two F connectors and an F barrel connector.
 
chaparral said:
Is it signal quailty or signal strength or both that is loss went using a F barrel to extend satellite coaxial cable ???
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A good quality join will lose a negligble amount of signal. Not very much at all.

It's creating standing waves along the cable which can be a problem but again, a good quality join will not result in this happening.

Correct me if I am wrong carpmaster.
 
Remember if your still within warranty on your box, they won't fix it, as it voids it. But meh you don't need to tell them that and the engineer won't care. ;)
 
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