Hey guys, I am working on a ship that was outfitted with what appears to be a very poor designed coax distribution. I have never worked with cable tv or coax to any great lengths other than what's in my house so forgive me if the terminology I use is suspect.
We have a single TV antenna on-board supplying signal to 25 receivers that are then connected via RCA to modulators that are programmed to various PAL channels. The modulator output is coax which is then fed into our aerial system on-board which consists of RG6 fed through out the vessel. We have one amplifier which doesn't appear to be enough. The coax has 5-way splitters on every floor (we have about 120 tvs total), but the real kicker appears to be that the coax is in-fact daisy chained from room to room. As you can imagine the picture quality is fairly poor, some channels better than others. To make matters worse everything on-board is 220 because the ship was built in Korea.
My questions:
-Is there any good way to fix the picture quality short of re-running coax to each room?
-Is there a way to program the channels to be closer together without worrying about bleed over?
-My original plan was to add amplifiers at each of the splitters because if I connect a TV at the splitter the picture quality is good, but I am not sure what to look for in terms of a "distribution amplifier" (I think that's what I need).
We have a single TV antenna on-board supplying signal to 25 receivers that are then connected via RCA to modulators that are programmed to various PAL channels. The modulator output is coax which is then fed into our aerial system on-board which consists of RG6 fed through out the vessel. We have one amplifier which doesn't appear to be enough. The coax has 5-way splitters on every floor (we have about 120 tvs total), but the real kicker appears to be that the coax is in-fact daisy chained from room to room. As you can imagine the picture quality is fairly poor, some channels better than others. To make matters worse everything on-board is 220 because the ship was built in Korea.
My questions:
-Is there any good way to fix the picture quality short of re-running coax to each room?
-Is there a way to program the channels to be closer together without worrying about bleed over?
-My original plan was to add amplifiers at each of the splitters because if I connect a TV at the splitter the picture quality is good, but I am not sure what to look for in terms of a "distribution amplifier" (I think that's what I need).
