FTA and Digital OTA on the same piece of coax?

[paulm]

I get much better reception with the rabbit ears (dual telescoping rods with no electronics involved) that i found at goodwill when they're mounted (okay, wedged) out back with the fta dish. So far I've just been doing the cord juggle when it's gametime (the only FTA I watch are Sioux sports feeds on 91). At this point I'm running the coax through the yard, around the house and in a window. I'm working on getting a more permanent setup, and I'd like to only run one cable into my house carrying both signals.

So, can i do something like
LNB | OTAantenna
---splitter---
coax to house
---splitter----
sat receiver | ota receiver
?

To through in another twist, not all of my locals have made the digital swtich yet, so I'll still be tuning in some analog ota as well (until feb).

Thanks in advance for the advice!

 

[Lak7]

It's called a Diplexer. You should be able to get them at your local electronics or home improvement store.

 

[paulm]

Aha, thank you. Had a feeling a standard cabletv splitter wouldn't do the trick, but didn't know what to google for.

This thing: S-UV30 Sadoun Combiner / Diplexer High performance device with outstanding specifications. It separates or combines off-air TV-Antenna/CATV and satellite signals from or onto a single feed coaxial line!!! One port DC pass

with one on each end.

 

[Mr Tony]

diplexers are used in tandem. Ive used them before for the same idea. Had only one line into the bedroom and needed to combine sat & OTA into one

they work pretty good and will work fine for what you want to do. There is a slight loss on the sat side when using them but with the FSSN maxing the meter yesterday ( ) we're OK with a slight loss (couple points)

 

[empiretc]

just make sure to get quality diplexers (digicon, etc..). i have used lots of them, but prefer not to.