See if you can help solve this brain teaser:
Luckily, you will only have to read it & not go up & down from my hot/fiberglass filled attic to get an answer!
I recently bought a TV-55 Terk antenna for local OTA HD signals.
I have a HD Tivo DirecTV Box (Integrated/300 hour) w/ ability to attach OTA for local HDs.
Antenna is mounted in the attic. When I attach it directly to the Tivo DVR it works great.
Problem:
I want to drop the signal into my room by diplexing it into the existing sat cable run.
I use a GHz isolated (One says Sat In, the Other says TV In), power passing, Diplexer.
I use this Diplexer where I combine the signal (attic) and where I split it back out (in my room).
BUT:
Using this configuration,
When I connect just the Antenna In into the DVR: It works.
When I connect just the Sat 1 In to the DVR: It works.
When I connect both: Ant works & the Sat 1 drops out. The box tells me its searching for Sat 1 so no signal is getting in.
I can play with the cables (in & out) real time & the errors will come, or go, based on the above.
How do I combine & then split out these 2 signals successfully?
Can it be done? Am I interfering with some upstream (from cable box) signal (Have no volt meter, cant tell).
I have used Power Passing & non Power Passing Diplexers. Non Power does me no good, Power gets me to this problem.
Must I have only a direct line drop & screw combining & splitting out?
PLEASE HELP
Luckily, you will only have to read it & not go up & down from my hot/fiberglass filled attic to get an answer!
I recently bought a TV-55 Terk antenna for local OTA HD signals.
I have a HD Tivo DirecTV Box (Integrated/300 hour) w/ ability to attach OTA for local HDs.
Antenna is mounted in the attic. When I attach it directly to the Tivo DVR it works great.
Problem:
I want to drop the signal into my room by diplexing it into the existing sat cable run.
I use a GHz isolated (One says Sat In, the Other says TV In), power passing, Diplexer.
I use this Diplexer where I combine the signal (attic) and where I split it back out (in my room).
BUT:
Using this configuration,
When I connect just the Antenna In into the DVR: It works.
When I connect just the Sat 1 In to the DVR: It works.
When I connect both: Ant works & the Sat 1 drops out. The box tells me its searching for Sat 1 so no signal is getting in.
I can play with the cables (in & out) real time & the errors will come, or go, based on the above.
How do I combine & then split out these 2 signals successfully?
Can it be done? Am I interfering with some upstream (from cable box) signal (Have no volt meter, cant tell).
I have used Power Passing & non Power Passing Diplexers. Non Power does me no good, Power gets me to this problem.
Must I have only a direct line drop & screw combining & splitting out?
PLEASE HELP