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Communal Dish for Sky and Hotbird.

  • 26-10-2007 10:06am
    #1
    hopalong_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭


    Hi,

    In the Apartment block we are considering getting a comunal dish to end the bickering over SAT Dishes, a managment comp controlled dish is a lot better than a multiude of owner placed ones that have to be removed, wiring already exists thanks to Chorus and we have access to a trunking point so we can connect apts to a lnb or the chorus feed depending on there requirments, Out inquiry is this. With the majority of renters being polish there is a demand for the Hotbird Sat where as the irish owners tend to what Sky, it is possible to get a single communal dish that will pick up both, i have been unable to locate what sat sky is broadcast from.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    conax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 278 ✭✭conax


    a single dish with an offset LNB could be used to receive both satellites, but in a communal system it is recommended that 2 seperate satellite dishes are used. the satellite positions are SKY (astra/eurobird 28.2/28.5 deg east) on one dish and hotbird 13deg east on the other.


  • #3
    spockety
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭spockety


    Are you sure that Chorus don't own the cable that runs right into every apartment?


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,445 ✭✭✭✭watty


    You can reliably do four satellites on a single dish. Very common even for 10 satellites using toroidal dish in USA for cable headends.

    Either 90cm ish Triax or if the max east to west space is more than 17 degrees, a Wave frontier T90. However, the extra cost of even 4 separate dishs is minimal.

    The T90 will allow say 13, 16, 19 & 28. A regular dish won't allow less than 4.5 degrees space.

    It would not be that likely that Chorus/NTL own the cable. Diplexers can be fitted to allow the same cable to pass Cable & Sat.

    The distribution gear for 4 satellites is not much more expensive than for 2. So design for 4 even if you only have 2 feeds.

    As long as 28.2 LNB is input one on the Multiswitches, then a Sky box will work. Sky Italia won't work even though it is on Hotbird.

    I'd recommend 19E as well as 13E and a separate dish for 5W, 16E or 30W depending on what the residents vote for.

    A €60 FTA receiver will work on all four satellites getting over 1000 free Tv and 900+ free radio. About 50 decent english TV and 40 decent english radio.
    About 47 languages.


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