I'm planning on putting an HDTV antenna in the attic, and will be splitting the RF signal to the two existing coax cables that run inside the house to the wall connections.
The splitter needs to be on the outside of the house where the cable company coax originally hooked up to the old 1 into 3 splitter. The coax cables I need to use are all sealed where they go into the outside wall, and I don't want to disturb the seal job. I have minimum cable length on the outside of the house.
I want to buy a new splitter that is a 1 into 4, but only use 2 of the 4 OUT ports because the IN port is on the same side of the splitter as the 2 OUT ports I need, so that configuration makes it an easy hook-up with the existing short cables on the outside of the house.
From what the linked article says, it sounds like a 1 into 4 splitter will have more RF signal loss (cascaded splitters), but maybe that is if you hook all 4 outputs up - ?. I'm not sure exactly what the internal design is, or if all splitters are designed the same in this regard.
Is the internal design of all 1 into 4 splitters going to result in 7 dB of RF loss on each port regardless if you connect 1 or 4 of the outputs? If so, then I'll have to somehow make a 1 into 2 splitter work and have 3.5 dB instead of 7 dB loss on each OUT port.
The splitter needs to be on the outside of the house where the cable company coax originally hooked up to the old 1 into 3 splitter. The coax cables I need to use are all sealed where they go into the outside wall, and I don't want to disturb the seal job. I have minimum cable length on the outside of the house.
I want to buy a new splitter that is a 1 into 4, but only use 2 of the 4 OUT ports because the IN port is on the same side of the splitter as the 2 OUT ports I need, so that configuration makes it an easy hook-up with the existing short cables on the outside of the house.
From what the linked article says, it sounds like a 1 into 4 splitter will have more RF signal loss (cascaded splitters), but maybe that is if you hook all 4 outputs up - ?. I'm not sure exactly what the internal design is, or if all splitters are designed the same in this regard.
Is the internal design of all 1 into 4 splitters going to result in 7 dB of RF loss on each port regardless if you connect 1 or 4 of the outputs? If so, then I'll have to somehow make a 1 into 2 splitter work and have 3.5 dB instead of 7 dB loss on each OUT port.
How Much Signal do I Lose Using a Splitter? (CM-3212HD, CM-3213HD)
Any time a TV signal is split, it will encounter insertion loss that will weaken the signals distributed beyond the splitter. If you experience signal issues while using a splitter, you may need to...
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