I am moving my satellite reciver to another room, can i leave the existing cable to it there...?

Question

can I leave the existing cable (from dish to receiver) there and just splice into that cable and reroute to the other room where i want to relocate my receiver or what? This way I will have two options for putting my receiver but only the one cable running into my house.

Answer 1

Yes. That shouldn't be a problem assuming the cables not so long that you'd lose signal strength.  However, since you're only using one cable at a time I shouldn't be a problem.

weeder

Answer 2

yes, that works just fine.

Answer 3

I agree with weeder that it should not be a problem, but I do have an additional suggestion. To keep down signal loss, you might want to drop a few bucks (probably $4-5 total) and get a terminator for your cable. Radio Shack or something similar should have them. Typically, you would need an "F" female barrel and an "F" 75 Ohm terminator. This will eliminate signal loss at the unused end, by terminating the connection. You may not need this, but if your original cable run was long, and didn´t have a good, strong signal, you could lose enough signal strength with an unterminated end to cause video loss problems.