Lidl FTA Receiver and Sky Dish

eoinkennedy

Hi,
I bought one of the 100 euro FTA receivers from Lidl and want to use my Sky dish as its dish. I reckon the dish it comes with is too small for Ireland.

I was thinking along these lines:

Use LNB holder to attach new LNB to Skys LNB.

Turn Sky dish to point to Hotbird at about 13 degrees, so this satellite has focus and feeds the old LNB.

Seperate new and old LNB by about 15 degrees so that new LNB gets signal from Astra 2 (Sky).

Cable from new LNB to Sky digibox receiver, old LNB to new FTA receiver.

Does anybody have any other suggestions on how I could do this, or am I trying to do something impossible?

Thanks,
Eoin

St Senan

Leave your sky dish as it is and buy yourself a new 80cm dish for hotbird.

Try these {all based in Ireland} and compare prices and delivery charges.

www.zintek.tv
www.satworldonline.com
www.corksat.com
www.satellite.ie
www.electroplus.ie

cast_iron

I'm with scaller on this one. I dunno about impossible, but your idea seems highly unlikely.

You can't just seperate the 2 lnb's by 10 or 15 degrees. Placing of the lnb is very critical. The sky dishes aren't designed to hold two lnb's anyway.

Not only that, but the dish bracket will probably crumble to pieces when you start loosening the nuts. They aren't built to last, with the new ones being worst of all.

Go for a new 80cm one.

Ulsterman 1690

Sky minidish is too small for Hotbird

It is possible (just about) to point an 80cm dish at hotbird and using multi lnb mounts have a second LNB for Astra 2 but its rather tricky to set up.

Multi LNB operation is more suited to closely spaced satellites such as Hotbrd and Astra 1

eoinkennedy

Does anybody know if the Lidl receiver on its own will work?

It comes with a 12 inch (39 cm) solid plastic dish.
It is just a case of aligning it properly to Astra 1 or HB and it'll work?

Did anybody else buy this kit yesterday or when it was on offer before?

Ulsterman 1690

I cant see the thing picking up hotbird It might be ok for Astra 1 and Astra 2 assuming its not raining too heavily and one isint too far West or North

watty

it will only do the stronger Hotbird / Astra and onl;y when not raining. It will go poor with Sky FTA channels too in rain.

The Receiver is 12V (may have mains too), and is fine with spare connector on Sky Quad LNB etc. You can get as good a receiver on its own that is mains only cheaper.