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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 12:56 AM

Can any balun run satellite over Cat 6?

Is there any balun that can make the run from the multiswitch, to two receivers, over about 100' of Cat 6 UTP?

 

I know typical baluns won't work, but will these, for instance?

 

http://www.vtx.co.uk/video/pbe850.htm

(that one does say "satellite")

 

http://www.hdtvsupply.com/mux-500302.html

 

The faq on that second one says:

Can the CATV Balun II be used to allow the coax cable between a satellite dish and satellite receiver be
replaced by Cat5 UTP?

No. The bandwidth of the balun and the Cat5 are insufficient to support RF video
transmission in the satellite frequency range. Satellite dish signals are typically in the gigahertz range.

 

I guess that means that one won't work. Is there any one out there that will? Or is the Category 6 cable just not capable of it?

 

The following thread:

http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin/mboard/rc-custom/thread.cgi?14451

seems to indicate it would be possible with the first balun.  However, maybe the respondent thought he wanted it just from the receiver to a TV tuner?  I dunno, I hope someone else can clarify.

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