Loss of Signal due to a cable join on Sky HD

[jaypay]

Hi Guys,

Recently had house re-wired and current situation is that in two rooms, I have 3 cables coming out of the wall for sky. Not the prettiest, but the builders walked out on the job so thats how it was left.

Anyway, two of the cables are connected to the sky HD box, with one of them lose to connect the the RF Out point. This then goes to the loft ready to plug into an amp to feed the other rooms. (Other rooms have the normal areal point on the wall ready to be plugged in.)
The second room has the same set up except its a sky plus box, rather than an HD box.

OK, so firstly I am annoyed that they didn't use the two lines of cable within one sleave as that would have meant I could have had both of the sky feeds in each roomn giving a choice of which one to look at, but nothing to be done about that I guess !

So the question I have, currently the two wires for the sky signal go straight from the lnb into the back of the sky box without any connections.

The problem with this is that the wires, as I say, just stick out of the wall...

Now, I can get a faceplate made up with the three sockets (would this be F-connector type) so it looks cleaner and neater on the wall, but I wan to check that this will not result in a huge loss of sinal and quality.

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere !

Thanks

 

[plugwash]

As long as good quality F conectors and couplers are used the signal loss should be minimal and is unlikely to cause problems unless things are already very marginal.

 

[jaypay]

Thanks Plugwash

In your opinion what's 'marginal'

Currently signal 1 is about 80% and quality about 90%.
Input 2 is has strength of about the same 80% and quality of 100%

And will stuff from say mplin be suitable, or need more specialist stuff?

Thanks

 

[plugwash]

Your signal sounds fine I don't think you will have any problems with that.

The important thing with F connectors is to match them to the cable you are using. Getting the wrong size of connectors is likely to result in poor connections.