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I have SKY HD the cable fromt he dish tothe box is the "shotgun" twin cable.
If I install a magic eye on a 2nd TV in another room does the connecting cable need tobe the same or does a co-axial cable do the job?
Also will need around 20m of cable to link the 2 so any particular grade of cable needed?
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Co-axial is what you need, you use the RF out on the back of your Sky box and connect it to the majic eye.
i did this in previous house, where I used a splitter from satellite to feed two Sjy HD boxes both with magic eyes. Just use the standard twin sky coax grade cable, it kind of future proofs you so if you want to eventually put boxes in the rooms upstairs you already have the correct cable.
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One point of note, you'll need to enable the power feed on RF2 to drive the magic eye. This is disabled by default. It's in a hidden menu; from memory, on the HD boxes it's something like Services, 0, 0, 1. Older boxes are a different code, google.
Any old single 75ohm coax will do that job
You can put the twin in if you want but you'll only be using one of them
You may also have to change the RF2 output channel to get an interference free picture, if you let me know which TV transmitter your terrestrial comes off, I'll give you some likely options
You may also have to change the RF2 output channel to get an interference free picture, if you let me know which TV transmitter your terrestrial comes off, I'll give you some likely options
Didn't analogue switch-off render this moot?
Didn't analogue switch-off render this moot?
No, RF2 [or RF1 for that matter] outputs an analogue signal
Besides, the multiplex carriers from the terrestrial transmitters are on the same RF band and will interfere if not spaced accordingly.
Being at a lower signal strength helps to some extent but it's really no different to the old analogue signals as far as RF interference goes.