> I have a satellite dish (SKY) and want to connect a small house on the
> property to it.

> Is this viable, both the length (50 m) and the fact that it is parallel
> to the mains supply?

You'd want to check the loss of the cable used.
Output is often in the 1 GHz - 2 GHz range - bad cable can be very bad
at that sort of frequency.

Bad cable can definitely do very bad things to signal level over that
sort of distance.
You may want to add a preamp at the antenna end depending on your LNB
output levels.
Preamp at start gives you far better result that post-amp at end (as
you no doubt realise).

I recentlyish bought a 1.2m satellite dish with 4cables run from LNB
outputs to house  - these were probably around 30 metres each so it
shows that some LNBs, some cable, some receivers and some people get
acceptable results over this sort of range.

I'll probably never get to find out how well that arrangement works -
the dish is destined to become a solar mirror.




   Russell
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