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Analog signal amplifier for digital antenna signal. Will it work?

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I'm having trouble using some old in-house cabling to transmit my digital signal from the Direct TV antenna to the receiver at the TV. I can transmit the analog SD picture from the receiver to the TV over this line although with some noise/weak video. The receiver shows a 61 strength at the central location but when I couple the two cables and put the receiver at the TV location I get 0 signal strength. I thinking of using one of my old analog in-line amplifiers to amplify the digital stream. Will this work? Is there any possible damage to the receiver?
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when I couple the two cables and put the receiver at the TV location I get 0 signal strength.
Chances are, one of the cables is bad.


The frequencies of interest are in the 850MHz to 1.9GHz band, a 'CATV' amplifier will not pass these signals, nor will it pass the DC from the receiver to the LNB.
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