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DigiCube ??

  • 03-10-2006 3:12pm
    #1
    YoYOPowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭


    I have a back garden that could accommodate one of these. Question is would it work with my current Sky+ Sub? Anybody know?


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  • #2
    TheDriver
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    I'm curious as to what a digicube is?!


  • #3
    YoYOPowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭YoYOPowder


    Apologies

    http://www.ddelec.com/digicube.htm


  • #4
    Zaphod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭Zaphod


    Nobody here has yet reported using one of these. One guy had a digiglobe which worked reasonably well, though not for all channels.
    http://pie.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=51715497#post51715497

    The Digiglobe has a 43cm (cassegrain) antenna so the Digicube/Cubsat 50 (offset) should be on a par. There is also a Cubsat 70 which would probably give you better performance in rain.
    http://www.cubsat.com/caracteris.htm

    Digiglobe has a gain of 33dB. Cubsat 50 = 34dB (25% increase in performance over digiglobe). Cubsat 70 = 36.2dB (100% increase).


  • #5
    TheDriver
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    Thanks, looking interesting yoke though everyone wouold have grand poke at it on my house!


  • #6
    YoYOPowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭YoYOPowder


    Thinking of buying this from a German site. I've attached a shot of the inside. From the pictures do you reckon I could attach my LNB from my existing Sky+ setup?


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  • #7
    watty
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    Probabily not easily. If you can make a custom bracket to position horn of Sky LNB at correct place.

    That is a 3 way monoBlock for a Diseqc switch. Not supported by any Sky box, unless LNB1 is point at 28.2, then the other two LNBs don't work.


  • #8
    Zaphod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭Zaphod


    If you look at the German companies website, they have an excel file with installation instructions. Looks like it could take a Sky LNBF OK.

    http://www.techno-com.de/pictures/AufbauanleitungCubsat70.xls
    http://www.techno-com.de/Cubsat.html

    Still though €300 is a lot to pay for a dish in a plastic box. There are some cheaper alternatives.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=224642&page=2


  • #9
    YoYOPowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭YoYOPowder


    There is a power seller on Ebay that ships to europe from what I can see. I have emailed him, so we'll see what happens.

    Otherwise it's NTL, it'll kill me.


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