sky+ installation question

[brandonc]

Hi,
just upgraded to sky+ and when the engineer came round he said he had to run another cable problem is that i have chased in the original cable and it is a right pain in the ass to run another cable, as the original i put under floor boards etc so it looks nice and neat.

Question is can i put a signal splitter on the end of the original cable and use the second outlet to feed the recording part of the box. i asked at maplin and just got a no, but no actual reason.

Please help,
Thanks

Brandon

[Graham M]

No because each tuner needs a feed back to the dish so that they can change the channel (Something to do with the axis the channel is broadcast on)

[brandonc]

Ok thanks, so what is the point of a signal splitter then, sorry for sounding stupid.

[Graham M]

They're usually for use in Cable/CCTV/Other systems that require precise impedance and balance

[andymo]

Thanks a lot for clearing that one up for us Graham.