2 dishes, 3 sats, to one receiver?

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Current Set Up: Sky dish with Quattro LNB(not quad) feeding to multiswitch, then feeding sky+ and 5 other boxes. including humax 2000 receiver.
I want to feed 19deg , 13deg and 28deg to Humax. Can i put up a second dish for 19 and 13 with monobloc or 2 lnb and use 4way disque switch to select between 13 or 19 on one dish or output from multiswitch for 28deg?

Im trying to avoid putting up a 110cm dish on house. Hoping the existing sky dish 60cm (i think) and 90cm dish will do the job.

Pal

givecredit wrote:

Current Set Up: Sky dish with Quattro LNB(not quad) feeding to multiswitch, then feeding sky+ and 5 other boxes. including humax 2000 receiver.
I want to feed 19deg , 13deg and 28deg to Humax. Can i put up a second dish for 19 and 13 with monobloc or 2 lnb and use 4way disque switch to select between 13 or 19 on one dish or output from multiswitch for 28deg?

Im trying to avoid putting up a 110cm dish on house. Hoping the existing sky dish 60cm (i think) and 90cm dish will do the job.

yes except I use a quad rather than a quattro.

2 dishes, 4 sats, 3 boxes (5 possible), 1 switch.

I have that set up working at my home in Dublin.

it's deadly.

I say 4 sats not 3 because the switch reads 28e as 2 different satellites. astra2 and eurobird. then you add astra1 and hotbird from the other dish.

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on your second dish,(19+13) are you using a monobloc lnb or 2 seperate lnbs?
What kind of multiswitch are you using. You say only possible to have 5 sat boxes. The Multiwitch i use can give feeds to 12 boxes, Obviously i've not used all of this. Your Disque Switch works perfectly with the Multiswitch?

Ulsterman 1690

If youre going to be THAT nitpicky :rolleyes:

I say 4 sats not 3 because the switch reads 28e as 2 different satellites. astra2 and eurobird. .

Astra 2A, Astra 2B, Astra 2D Eurobird..........:D

Pal

givecredit wrote:

on your second dish,(19+13) are you using a monobloc lnb or 2 seperate lnbs?
What kind of multiswitch are you using. You say only possible to have 5 sat boxes. The Multiwitch i use can give feeds to 12 boxes, Obviously i've not used all of this. Your Disque Switch works perfectly with the Multiswitch?

what's a multiswitch ?

I don't have one.

80cm dish with 2 lnbs 13 and 19e to a disecq
60cm dish with a quad to the disecq and two cables to Sky Digiboxes.

Disecq to a CI box.

I switch the channels on the CI box to the Sky TVs with a videosender.

givecredit

See below for multiswitch

http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/page1b.htm

This box can increase the number of outputs from dish to 5 or 8 or12 or more.

Your setup is different. I need to know can a disqe switch work with a 28deg feed comming through the multiswitch?

Zaphod

givecredit wrote:

I need to know can a disqe switch work with a 28deg feed comming through the multiswitch?

Yes. As far as the Diseqc switch is concerned, the output from the multiswitch is just another LNBF.

Rippy

Yes I have done this for a customer. Small housing development with 28 deg and terrestrial supplied though communial dish, aerials and multiswitch.
He managed to get permission from landlord for his own dish supplying 13 and 19.
I added diseq in attic One output of diseq goes to multiswitch. Only problem is he has to remember to change his reciever to a 28 deg. channel before he can watch terrestrial channels.