RG-6, RG-59...read this is if you know these terms.?

Question

So heres the thing, theres 20 TV's that needed to be hooked up. Each room has its own feed, then it splits one side goes directly to the TV, and the other side goes to a sat receiver. When i hooked up the TV's only 14 TV's actually got a signal. So to fix this problem i was going to run another cable to the feeds that i know work, and split it off of those. Is this a good idea? Or what can you reccomend?

Answer 1

20 TVs, each with a SAT receiver???

To handle that, I'd start with each room running RG-6 coax back to a central point. In each room is a TV/SAT signal diplexer that splits the TV air signal from the satellite signal. You can use short RG-59s to attach the TV and SAT receiver to the diplexer.

Back at the central point, you're going to need signal amps take your TV antenna and satellite signal inputs and drive those 20 outputs. TV guys probably know better, but I wonder if there's equipment out there capable of doing that.

I wouldn't daisy-chain my feeds, if only because now you risk degrading the input signal on the good TVs to try to feed the non-working ones. By how much I don't know.