Moving a Sky box,

[thatone1967]

I have decided to re-arrange the living room, and as a result, will need to move the sky box.
The feed comes in through the wall behind the box, so I will need to add some kind of extension lead.
Question is: is this easy, and also, will I lose any signal?

[miniman]

You'll need some satellite grade coax, some twist-on F-type connectors and some male to male F-type joints.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=10447

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=1638

Providing the connectors are fitted securely, you shouldn't see any terrible signal loss. I've only ever had (minor) issues when using a TVLink magic eye which are quite sensitive to the cable run.

Edited by miniman on Thursday 23 September 21:09

[Engineer1]

homebase do cheaper cabling than maplin, we moved our sky box requiring 10m or so of cable maplin wanted pretty much £40 I got the cables from homebase for £10 and there is no obvious picture issues.

[miniman]

Screwfix are possibly cheaper still. I just used Maplin to show what the items are.

[cjs]

If done correctly, you will not lose any signal.

[Mr AJ]

What length do you need, And is it Sky+ or Standard Sky (So 1 feed or two?).