Can you combine OTA and Hopper signals?

[Nile Roberts]

I've been searching on the forum and on the web, but I haven't found a specific answer to this question.

I have a Hopper in my downstairs living room and there's only one coax cable running to the Hopper. I have an OTA signal that runs into my upstairs wiring cabinet and I would like to combine the OTA signal with the signal going to the Hopper. I just purchased the Dish OTA USB tuner, so I was hoping to combine the OTA and hopper signals in my wiring cabinet, use the single coax run to my downstairs hopper, and then and then split them at the hopper and connect the the OTA signal to the tuner and the hopper signal to the hopper.

Is this possible? If so, what adapters do I need? I tried diplexing the signals, but that doesn't appear to work and I've read references that diplexing doesn't work with the hopper.

Thanks

Nile

 

[n0qcu]

Nope cannot combine OTA with the satellite signal with the Hopper, must user separate cables.

 

[garys]

You can on older receivers, but not a Hopper. You may be able to combine it with a Joey, but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[Bobby]

Not with a Joey either. Diplexing gets in the way of MoCA....