Any advice appreciated with a satellite installation issue.
We have a dish that receives French TV which has worked perfectly for a couple of years using the earlier Sky installation cabling etc. This week, we have been moving rooms about in the house, including the lounge, so previous cable setup no longer reaches the TV. So, yesterday spent running a new coax cable from port 3 (of 4) on the LNB, under the house to exit through the floor at the TV's new location. But...the receiver box no longer recognises a signal from the dish. I have brought the receiver back to its old location, and ran it off the original cables and it works as it did before, so no disturbance to dish alignment.
So now I'm wondering:
Any help greatfully received
EDIT: it's all about the F-connectors people! Now working beautifully, meaning I'm free to play on the bike (road today - must work off some of the holiday beef)!
We have a dish that receives French TV which has worked perfectly for a couple of years using the earlier Sky installation cabling etc. This week, we have been moving rooms about in the house, including the lounge, so previous cable setup no longer reaches the TV. So, yesterday spent running a new coax cable from port 3 (of 4) on the LNB, under the house to exit through the floor at the TV's new location. But...the receiver box no longer recognises a signal from the dish. I have brought the receiver back to its old location, and ran it off the original cables and it works as it did before, so no disturbance to dish alignment.
So now I'm wondering:
- - Is there a specific cable (i.e. Sky specific) other than the regular 9mm coax I have used that I need to route to the new location? The original Sky cables (twin cables for Sky+) are thinner both in OD, and in terms of copper core.
- Could the length of the new cable (around 15m) be enough to cause loss of signal?
- Do the ports on the LNB need to somehow be 'activated' by Sky black magic?
Any help greatfully received
EDIT: it's all about the F-connectors people! Now working beautifully, meaning I'm free to play on the bike (road today - must work off some of the holiday beef)!