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Increasing Cable TV signal strength
On 2/8/2012 6:38 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:41:08 -0800, Jeff wrote: Your 200ft of RG6a/u will drop the signal from between 4dB at the low end, to about 6dB at the high end. Some better numbers for RG6a/u: Freq Atten MHz -dB 10 0.8 50 1.4 100 2.9 200 4.3 400 6.4 1000 11.0 The CATV band is approximately 50 to 800MHz. With 200ft of cable, you should see 2.8 to 16dB of loss. While there may be problem at the high channels, all the lower channels should work. Any idea where channel 428 would be in that frequency range? That's a duplicate of 4,2 but in HD, and it works when 42 doesn't. The 4 way splitter has a loss of about -7dB. Just a point. I may not have made it clear. I had the tech put in two 2way splitters and connect me to the first one. Hoping to gain 3db. (or 4) and it did make a difference. Picking a random set top box: http://www.zoran.com/IMG/pdf/Simplify_NextGen_STBs_Solutions.pdf See Page 3. Sensitivity is -18dBm for 256QAM and -24dBm 64QAM. At the low end, you have 0dBm in, 7dB loss in the splitter, 2.8dB loss in the coax, resulting in -9.8dBm to the box. That's much more than the -18dBm/-24dBm needed. However, at the high end, things are not so wonderful. 0dbm in, 7dB loss in the splitter, and 16dB loss in the coax, which delivers -23dBm. That's 1dB of margin, which is not very good. Still, it should work on the lower channels. |
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