Watching Sky in another room using RF

[markengland]

Hi, I am new to this so please go easy on me! I am trying to set up the bedroom TV so I can watch Sky on it (our Sky box is in the lounge and it is a Sky + HD box). I realise I will only be able to watch the same channel. I have run an aerial cable from the RF2 output connection on the back of the Sky box to the RF connection on the bedroom TV. I have checked the RF settings on my Sky Box and RF Output power supply is ON and RF channel number is 68. I have tried tuning in the bedroom TV but it won't find anything. What am I doing wrong? I have read something about finding the RF channel on the bedroom TV but I don't know how to do that... Any help gratefully received. Thanks, Mark.

[kerrywez]

Hi the powered RF output is for a magic eye, try the other outlet it should work for you.

Regards Wez

[markengland]

Thanks for the info wez. I have turned the rf power output to off on the sky box downstairs
and then retuned the bedroom tv but it still won't find sky?

[TheBadger]

You are attempting to tune in channel 68 with an analogue tuner? If your TV has both analogue and digital tuners it may default to the digital one.

[markengland]

Thanks badger. I am using the auto tune feature on my analogue tv. It has a built in freeview box but that is under a different menu for digital tv. I am really confused by this yet it must be something very simple that I'm missing!

[AceB]

If you have a TV aerial connected to the Sky box do you receive any stations on the bedroom telly, be it analogue or digital. If you do it will prove the connection from Sky box to TV is OK, if you don't but they are OK downstairs then it suggests there is a problem in the cable going to the bedroom.

[kerrywez]

You do not need to use that RF output, unless you are using the other one for the TV, but I would have thought that you would have been using the HDMI for the TV. Do as AceB says and that will let you eliminate a bad coax cable connection. As I said before, you do not need to use that RF outlet you are doing, the other one is the one to use anyway.

Regards Wez

[markengland]

Thanks again everyone for the contributions. We don't have an aerial in our house, only the Sky dish. Also, the TV downstairs in the lounge is connected to the Sky box via a scart lead, not the HDMI connection, as at the moment we only have an old-style TV. We were given an HD box free by Sky so it is ready for when we upgrade our TV. So just to clarify, my upstairs TV is connected to the downstairs Sky box by a cable from RF Output 2 on the Sky box to the RF connection on the TV upstairs. When I run the auto-tune function on the bedroom TV (in analogue mode) it doesn't find Sky.

I am not sure if you are suggesting I should use one of the other connection points on the Sky box instead of RF 2? Sorry I am asking such stupid questions - I wrongly thought this would be an easy 5 minute job I could do myself!!!

[kerrywez]

Yes Mark, just use the RF outlet with the power and see if that helps. If not then please check the cable, if just one little fiber of the shield on the coax is touching the core it will short the signal out and there will be nothing going to the TV upstairs, you might also try changing the RF channel that the box is using I would try that before you change anything might just be a conflict of the channel the box is using with some other channel. like a local TV channel. Hope you get it sorted soon mate.

Regards Wez

[revird]

hi m8,

pick up the tv from the bedroom.

place next to the reciever box

connect with pre-made video lead.

set up on auto tune.

not work-----reset sky box channel to lower number --say 50.

tv may not be reaching as high as 68 due to a slight fault in the tuning supply.