a new post.Thanks!

Drop by my site and check it out under ‘The Solar Adventure’

Will post a photo once I get it assembled … although you shouldn’t hold your breath – I always seem to be short a connector or fastener of some kind when I tackle these projects

Jeff: Nah, nothing on that channel range. You can get high/low pass filters for a variety of different ranges, or even a notch filter to take out channel 3 (like most apartment buildings) if you prefer, the options are almost endless.

It’s mainly about the convenience. We’ve tried a few different configurations (hooking up a composite feed into the “aux” input of the VCR or the TV) but most of the options felt like a “cludge”, it just wasn’t convenient to access the CCTV feed, and by the time you’d gone through the steps (usually just locating the OTHER remote control) you’d probably given up and just peered through the window.

Mostly I wanted uniformity from the system. I wanted ANY TV, ANYWHERE in the house to show the same thing, and I wanted it to be expandable so any new TVs showed the same thing when they were plugged in.

It was a good little project. Now I just have to mount the stuff properly and cut some short cables so it looks more like a “video distribution system” and less like “crap nailed to a board”.

-GRIN-

Of course I can’t do that until I’ve sorted out what I’ll be doing with the SATV feed (I mean do I drop a single diplexer onto the CATV feed into the amplifier – I’d need to verify the amplifier handles the right frequency range for SATV) and then just split the signal at each room (say two F-type connects per cover, one for SATV and one for CATV – that’d require somewhere in the neighborhood of a half dozen diplexers).

Meh…more experimentation required.