I just installed an Eagle Aspen S-4180-GX+ multiswitch to work with a new oval DirecTV dish. I fed the four RG6 cables from the dish to the four SAT connections on the switch and one OTA RG6 cable from an attic antenna to the antenna input on the switch. The DirecTV channels come in great using a Samsung SIR-TS160 STB and a Sony 34XBR910 TV. However, the local channels are very noisy when viewed in TV mode on all my other STD TV sets. If I unplug the AC transformer from the switch, the local channels look great with no noise but the SAT channels don't make it out of the switch naturally. If I DIPLEX the OTA antenna into the SAT feeds out of the Eagle Aspen switch (and not feed the OTA antenna through the switch), both the SAT and OTA channels look great. For some reason, the switch seems to be impressing noise on the OTA antenna feeds. I am only about 7 miles from the broadcast TV towers so I have lots of signal. I think I am going to have to use a 1X8 splitter on the antenna feed and DIPLEX the antenna feeds into each of the eight SAT output feeds from the switch. It will look like spaghetti when I do this but will give me a better OTA picture.
Has anyone run into this problem? Did I waste money buying a 5X8 switch instead of a 4X8 switch plus 8 diplexers?
Thanks, Art
Has anyone run into this problem? Did I waste money buying a 5X8 switch instead of a 4X8 switch plus 8 diplexers?
Thanks, Art