Need help getting signal to another TV. My username says it all.

[STUCK_HELP]

Hi folks. I found this forum while searching for a way to accomplish a particular setup inside of my office. We are a Dish Network subscriber with a fairly standard VIP 222K receiver. Basically it has been setup and working great for a couple of years now. We have an HDMI out going to one TV that is close by. The cable from the wall that feeds the receiver is, I think, bi-directional and feeds yet another small TV on someones desk in another suite in our office. Basically, I want to split the signal out into another coax plug in for a new TV we installed in a downstairs suite. We are completely OK with only having one channel at a time shared across the other TVs that are not connected via the HDMI.

I bought a couple of splitters at Radio Shack that I though might work and have tried every single combo I can think and can never get signal to one of the flatscreens via coax. Below are pictures of what we have:

Here is the first connection from the wall jack incoming from the dish on the roof:



That then splits into two different other splitters as seen here:




Those splitters then plug into the back of the receiver:



So, at what connection do I add a splitter, and what kind of splitter do I even use? Is this even possible? Sadly, a coax cable is all we have stretching from this area to the other floor so no other connection type is possible.

Thanks all!
Greg

 

[MattG@DISH]

It looks like you have a remote antenna backfeed setup to help your TV2 remote. To 'mirror' the TV2 feed, you can use a regular splitter near where the current TV2 is located (after the other diplexer).

 

[KE4EST]

Welcome to the site, and yes a very unique user name.

 

[STUCK_HELP]

Thanks for the reply Speedy. You'll have to forgive me for being such a novice; that is exactly what I am, but which wire from the pics above would I remove to plug into my splitter? And which one of the splitters that I purchased below should I use? Thanks again and sorry to be so dense. this is not my forte.

 

[freefall2]

mirroring tv2

first disconnect wire going into IN side of red HFS2d connect this cable into 1 out side of bi-directional splitter, run short cable from input side of splitter back to open connection on red HFS2D, now run other out side of bi-directional splitter to new tv that will be mirrored, tv2 will need to be on same channel as other mirrored tv, should now have tv

 

[STUCK_HELP]

first disconnect wire going into IN side of red HFS2d connect this cable into 1 out side of bi-directional splitter, run short cable from input side of splitter back to open connection on red HFS2D, now run other out side of bi-directional splitter to new tv that will be mirrored, tv2 will need to be on same channel as other mirrored tv, should now have tv

Freefall, you are my hero! I tried exactly what you wrote above just now and it worked great! I wouldnt have known to hook it up the way you described. Again, it is perfect. Thanks sir!