Sky Q

[JamesInglett]

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

[Chodley]

Twin and satellite standard?

[nigea99]

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@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

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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

[JamesInglett]

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.

[nigea99]

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@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.

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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 

[JamesInglett]

Again thanks

[Godfrey]

@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.

[nigea99]

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@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.

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Many thanks @Godfrey - much appreciated.

[JamesInglett]

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.

[Chodley]

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@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.

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