Cable for satellite and freeview terrestrial channels?
The classic cause of not receiving all Freeview channels is a poor quality signal at the receiver. Booster amplifiers are not a good cure for this in most cases, so don’t waste your time and money on one. The only lasting solution for this is a good aerial (at least 24 element) and correct UHF double-screened downlead. Freeview terrestrial and satellite are completely incompatible systems. You cannot use a single cable to carry signals from a satellite dish and a UHF aerial. The satellite system converts the signal from the satellite into an encoded 9GHz band wave at the LNB in the dish. This is also encrypted into a complex digital signal that the satellite box has to decode. Because of the frequency band used the downlead is a very special co-ax that is purposefully designed for it. Ordinary terrestrial co-ax (even the high quality stuff designed for Freeview) does not have the electrical characteristics suitable for satellite use. The signal losses will be very high. The receivers f
