Joining Sky and aerial signals

[smokie]

I am trying to combine RF output from Sky with my aerial feed. The output from aerial feed is fine until I plug it into one of those Y splitter/joiners. (Sky isn't yet plugged in). The picture then gets the herringbone pattern. I've tried 2 y connectors.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[threadkiller]

you need to ensure that the Sky RF channel number is far apart from your standard Terestrial channels. if your aerial is fed into Sky & you take the OP from your sky then it should have all signals combined anyway, so i dont quite understand why you need a seperate splitter

[smokie]

Ah! I didn't realise I could feed the aerial into the digibox! Or at least I didn't think about doing that...

Will try, then report back. Thanks

[smokie]

Thanks - that does what I want it to, but still I have a good picture when pluged directly into the telly but quality degrades quite badly when it goes into the digibox. It's snowy rather than the herringbone lines. Where would a booster be best placed? (polite answers only please!!)

[frogster]

If your RF reception is OK when connected directly to the TV then you don't need a booster.

Try changing the RF output channels on both the Tivo and the Sky box.

The RF feed from the antenna should go into the Tivo, the Tivo RF output should go into the Sky box RF input and the Sky RF output (RF2) should go wherever you want it to end up.

Use the RF1 digibox output to feed the local TV but all your viewing of Tivo or Sky should be done exclusively by scart on the local TV.

[smokie]

OK, will re-address using the above once I can get exclusive use of the TV for a while.

The purpose for the complication is that I have 5 TVs around the house and each can watch anything independently of the rest (except of course only 1 satellite channel can be watched). This includes terrestrial TV, TiVo and DVD. And the TV has a Home Theatre system under it too, which I need to be fed from all channels plus TiVo. And the TV is an older Sony wth only two SCARTs, one in each direction (as far as I can tell).

I've just cut off NTL cable (under which this allworked, as terrestrial channels came in through the NTL box but were independent of "satellite" channels) and replaced with Sky freesat, but including the borrowing of my daughter's subbed SKy box while she is away at Uni...