Hi all,
Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Hoping someone here can help me with a question. I've got a Dish and a DTV dish set up. One receiver for each in the living room. Last spring, in order to connect both satellite dishes to two TVs in upstairs rooms and avoid having to buy a couple of new receivers, an installer used an Aksa SC4 signal combiner with built-in amplifier to put both sat signals on a single coax. Bought a UHF remote and I had bedroom TV!
This worked great for about a month. Very clear picture on both and no interference from broadcasters on channel four. Then I started losing the signals on a regular basis. I found I could get the signal back by wiggling the wires at the combiner, or unscrewing and then screwing the wires back in. But the connections on the combiner seemed awfully flimsy. The plugs moved around, so I imagined the wires inside weren't connected too well. Eventually, I lost the DTV dish signal upstairs for good.
Anyhow, I'm about to buy another one and try this again, as I assume the original unit was defective, but wanted to see if there were better options out there. This Aksa box seems really poorly made. Also, is it possible to use one of these signal combiners for two satellite systems? It sure seems like it, because my setup worked (albeit off and on) for months, but I wonder because it seems like every description I read involves one sat system and cable, or a DVD player, or some other non-sat device.
Anyhow, thanks for reading and thanks in advance to anyone who can help me work this through. Don't want to waste money on another signal combiner if there is a better option out there. Don't want to spend too much, either, because if cost gets up there, I might as well just buy another receiver or two and string a second coax.
Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Hoping someone here can help me with a question. I've got a Dish and a DTV dish set up. One receiver for each in the living room. Last spring, in order to connect both satellite dishes to two TVs in upstairs rooms and avoid having to buy a couple of new receivers, an installer used an Aksa SC4 signal combiner with built-in amplifier to put both sat signals on a single coax. Bought a UHF remote and I had bedroom TV!
This worked great for about a month. Very clear picture on both and no interference from broadcasters on channel four. Then I started losing the signals on a regular basis. I found I could get the signal back by wiggling the wires at the combiner, or unscrewing and then screwing the wires back in. But the connections on the combiner seemed awfully flimsy. The plugs moved around, so I imagined the wires inside weren't connected too well. Eventually, I lost the DTV dish signal upstairs for good.
Anyhow, I'm about to buy another one and try this again, as I assume the original unit was defective, but wanted to see if there were better options out there. This Aksa box seems really poorly made. Also, is it possible to use one of these signal combiners for two satellite systems? It sure seems like it, because my setup worked (albeit off and on) for months, but I wonder because it seems like every description I read involves one sat system and cable, or a DVD player, or some other non-sat device.
Anyhow, thanks for reading and thanks in advance to anyone who can help me work this through. Don't want to waste money on another signal combiner if there is a better option out there. Don't want to spend too much, either, because if cost gets up there, I might as well just buy another receiver or two and string a second coax.
