topic Re: Sky Q in Sky Q

Sky Q

JamesInglett — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:55:53 GMT

I have been told the cable for Sky Q is standard coax. I wondered if the first cable I ran which I took to be coax will be ok for the new Sky Q installation

Re: Sky Q

Chodley — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:57:52 GMT

Twin and satellite standard?

Re: Sky Q

nigea99 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:11:00 GMT

@JamesInglett wrote:

I have been told the cable for Sky Q is standard coax. I wondered if the first cable I ran which I took to be coax will be ok for the new Sky Q installation

hi @JamesInglett

I am not quite sure what you mean by standard co-ax - Satellite receivers won't work with TV Aerial co-ax for example.

SKY Q needs to use two cables - SKY install twin cable.

Is there any reason you laying the cable yourself ?

If laying cable yourself we usually recommend a cable with reference WF100 although for normal length installation WF65 should be sufficient

Re: Sky Q

JamesInglett — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:14:59 GMT

Thanks tor that I received information from a Sky employee that the cable was coax & a 7mm holr would be enough room to fit the cable through. This must be wrong ,I should have acceptrd the offer from the Sky engineer to leave a coil, & I could have ran that.

Re: Sky Q

nigea99 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:43:01 GMT

@JamesInglett wrote:

Thanks tor that I received information from a Sky employee that the cable was coax & a 7mm holr would be enough room to fit the cable through. This must be wrong ,I should have acceptrd the offer from the Sky engineer to leave a coil, & I could have ran that.

hmmm - I thought the standard hole used by the installers for SKy Q is 10mm - 7mm seems too small for twin cable/2 cables

I will tag our kind expert @Godfrey as I think he should be able to confirm

Edit : BTW Satellite Cable is coax but coax covers many cables with different sizes and shielding etc. :

coax cable wiki

Re: Sky Q

JamesInglett — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:45:47 GMT

Again thanks

Re: Sky Q

Godfrey — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:00:15 GMT

@JamesInglett Each CT63 / WF65 coaxial cable has a nominal outer diameter of 4.8mm, so the standard CT63 / WF65 twin 'Shotgun' cable will require a 10 mm hole.

Whereas, the lower loss CT100 / WF100 coaxial cable has a nominal outer diameter of 6.6 mm, so each of these cables would require a 7mm hole, or two of these would require a nominal 15 mm hole.

Godfrey.

Re: Sky Q

nigea99 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:52:32 GMT

@Godfrey wrote:

@JamesInglett Each CT63 / WF65 coaxial cable has a nominal outer diameter of 4.8mm, so the standard CT63 / WF65 twin 'Shotgun' cable will require a 10 mm hole.

Godfrey.

Many thanks @Godfrey - much appreciated.

Re: Sky Q

JamesInglett — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:58:32 GMT

Thanks to both the 7mm hole is the one exsisting from my first cable instalation for Sky+, that I ran through my loft & trunked internally. I was hoping this route could be used again using the cable in it,but I will need to drill a larger hole instead.

Re: Sky Q

Chodley — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:14:09 GMT

@JamesInglett wrote:
Thanks to both the 7mm hole is the one exsisting from my first cable instalation for Sky+, that I ran through my loft & trunked internally. I was hoping this route could be used again using the cable in it,but I will need to drill a larger hole instead.

Sounds like that was old school pre-Sky+ single cable.