Colin Blackburn wrote:

On the general theme of aerial installations is there a reasonable way
to wire in several aerial points off one aerial without a distribution
amplifier, ie just using a splitter or splitters. Say I want four
sockets, should I split near the aerial or run a single co-ax as far as
possible before splitting? There would only ever be one socket in use at
once but I can appreciate that long 'stubs' may cause various problems
on the line as a whole.

Colin


Makes no difference.

The problem is to achieve reflectionless splitting. In real terms this
can only be done with matched resistive pads on each end of every
cable,. This is totally impractical - who is goindg to put 75ohm
terminators in every socket in the hose that is not in use? AND that
results in losses, degrading the signal anyway.

Distrubution amplifiers isolate each cable from all the others, That's
what they are there for. Use them.