Satellite TV to Outlying Building, distance?

[FarmerTech]

We have a farm and want to get the satellite TV signal from the house to the barn office. Buildings are approximately 1000 ft apart. Existing wiring consists of a 50 twisted pair telephone cable (Cat 3?) direct burial and a direct burial coax with ground (not sure of the specs on the coax but it is about 3/4" in diameter and has an attached ground and was installed about 25 years ago).

We have a pbx phone system using pairs on the Cat 3, and in the past the local cable company provided cable TV using the Coax.

Can a satellite dish single be pushed that distance. Is there a termination/interface or piece of equipment necessary to repeat the signal?

 

[resorttech12]

Have you tried connecting your satellite feed to the UG cable, and then to the reciever on the far side? That is a decent size coax, and may not need a lot of amplification. If that doesn't work, a simple home video amplifier from radio shack might be all that you need. If it's what i'm thinking. That's my 2 cents to hopefully get you started, unless a sat tech responds.

One question: does that UG cable have a large fitting on the end? either brass, or with some shrink tubing on it? if it does, that is the cable that shouldn't need tons of amplification.

hope that helps.

 

[wires]

My inclination would be to leave the receivers(s) in the house and run the output to the barn office.

You could modulate the sat box output to a unused channel and carry the audio and video and IR control on the coax.

OR

You could use the coax for composite video and run the audio and IR control over the cat3.

Check Xantech.com for IR repeater systems. They have both types that do IR over coax and 3 conductors. You may have to use more than 1 conductor to keep voltage drop from being a problem.

If you try to run the satellite LNB signal 1000 feet you will most likely have not only signal attenuation but voltage drop problems. You could try it since it is the least costly approach but it may not work.

Be sure to surge suppress any underground lines on both ends.

What sort of satellite system are you working with? If it is a mini dish system (Dish, DirecTV) then dishes are cheap. You could just install another dish at the farm office.