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TV Antenna and Satellite on one coax cable

Hey.

I'm moving to a house next week and the previous owners have a large roof antenna for TV reception and no cable at all. I currently have basic cable and a satellite dish and when it was installed it was run over the same piece of coax with a combiner and splitter.

When the installer comes to put up the dish in the new house should I make them run a new piece of coax for it or let them use the same coax for both the TV antenna and satellite? My only concern is audio/video quality. Anything else I'm not considering?

Thanks!
leoturetsky

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sugarbrie
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I would add another run for the satellite dish. Why take the chance. You can split/combine the two cables with a switch box at the HT system or TV.


When I bought my current house they had an antenna (attic) also, but it was plugged into where the cable comes into the house so it would go to all the rooms. All I did was remove the antenna and reconnect the cable TV. I then ran a separate cable from the antenna to the Audio system for the FM Tuner.

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