VIP 612 Remote Antenna Question

[cpapjack]

I think I know the answer to this question, but I just would like someone to confirm whether I'm right or wrong.

I have two 612 receivers on my second floor in the kids' bedrooms. What I am thinking of doing is, running coax cable from the UHF antenna on the receivers in the basement to the bedrooms, then connect the UHF antenna. This should work as far still being able to use the remotes, correct?

 

[KAB]

Technically, yes it would work, but I am confused as to what you are trying to accomplish. Is the kid's rooms TVs hooked up to the 612 in the basement or vice versa? You said two 612's in the kid's rooms. Can't get my head wrapped around what you described/and or trying to do.

 

[cpapjack]

Technically, yes it would work, but I am confused as to what you are trying to accomplish. Is the kid's rooms TVs hooked up to the 612 in the basement or vice versa? You said two 612's in the kid's rooms. Can't get my head wrapped around what you described/and or trying to do.

Ha ha, sorry. Each of the kid's rooms has a 612 currently. I want to relocate them to the basement.

 

[KAB]

Ha ha, sorry. Each of the kid's rooms has a 612 currently. I want to relocate them to the basement.

You are aware that you will have to re-run cables from the Sat to the basement, right?

 

[TheKrell]

You are aware that you will have to re-run cables from the Sat to the basement, right?

And feed the TV outputs back upstairs as well. I was personally never satisfied with the quality of the RF output, even in SD, so I don't use that output any more anywhere.

 

[cpapjack]

You are aware that you will have to re-run cables from the Sat to the basement, right?

Satellite terminates in the basement already, so I'll just move the connection from the run that goes to the 2nd floor to the receiver. Then, I plan on running RG-6 for the antenna, Cat5 for ethernet and HDMI for audio/video.

 

[boba]

Try the short antenna that comes wiyh yhe receivers before you go to running extra wires. Onless you have a lot of obstructions to radio waves the 612 is designed for 150 ft. between remote and receiver. I can operate my 612 from any place in the house including the garage with just the standard antenna connected. Be sure you have the RF mode turned on, Menu 6-1-3 letter i. Press sat button then record button on a RF remote will change from IR to UHF.

 

[cpapjack]

Try the short antenna that comes wiyh yhe receivers before you go to running extra wires. Onless you have a lot of obstructions to radio waves the 612 is designed for 150 ft. between remote and receiver. I can operate my 612 from any place in the house including the garage with just the standard antenna connected. Be sure you have the RF mode turned on, Menu 6-1-3 letter i. Press sat button then record button on a RF remote will change from IR to UHF.

True, but I have a 722 on the 1st floor with a tv using the 2nd tuner on the 2nd floor, and the remote doesn't always work that well. Besides, I would still need to run HDMI and Ethernet if I put these in the basement, so I might as well run caox for the antenna as well.

 

[pabeader]

if you are using coax to get the second tv you can piggy back the remote antenna signal on it.

 

[KAB]

if you are using coax to get the second tv you can piggy back the remote antenna signal on it.

Yep...here's an illustration.

http://tech.dishnetwork.com/departmental_content/techportal/Images/Tech/remotes/RemoExtend1.jpg

 

[cpapjack]

if you are using coax to get the second tv you can piggy back the remote antenna signal on it.

Hmm, I am actually. How would I go about doing that?

 

[pabeader]

two diplexers. (maybe plain splitters will work)

at the receiver you connect the antenna in and tv out to two legs of diplexer 1 then connect the coax that goes to the upstairs tv to the third leg.

at the TV you reverse the process. connect the single coax to the single leg of diplexer 2, then connect the remote antenna to one of the diplexer legs and the other diplexer leg to the tv.

hope that makes sense. maybe one of the other folks can draw a picture.

 

[pabeader]

TV out goes here at this spot on the dipl---\_________________/---- to TV
REMOTE antenna connection on receiver ---/`````````````````\---- to actual remote antenna

 

[KAB]

I guess I wasted my time finding and posting the picture for you.

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...-612-remote-antenna-question.html#post2321162

 

[boba]

Yes you can piggyback on the coax but that is 7dB of signal/picyure loss for no reason. Maybe your 722 would work more reliably with a six foot coax pigtail to get the antenna away from the TV set.

 

[pabeader]

you can buy lower loss splitters around 1 or 2 dB

 

[pabeader]

KAB- Not a waste!! guess i was typing while you were finding

in real life i've never seen one with the annenuator there.

 

[KAB]

KAB- Not a waste!! guess i was typing while you were finding

in real life i've never seen one with the annenuator there.

Wasn't that you were typing. He skipped over the illustration and asked you how to do it when it was right there. Oh Well!