one dish, 2 lnbs 2 satellites, possible?

murphaph

Hi guys.
I'm keen to improve my german and not so keen to bolt another sat dish to the house. Can I adapt my sky 60cm mesh dish to add a lidl lnb at a slightly skewed angle to pick up Astra19 as well as 28? I've heard this is possible in some places anyway as the sats are so close.

Tony

Afraid not, you need an 80cm dish with a multi lnb bracket and diseq switch

murphaph

Short and sweet.
Thanks Tony. Is the reception as good as 2 dishes with the 80cm dish? I could swap out the sky one but I'd only do it if I wan't going to lose reception quality.

Thanks again.

Tony

If its set up correctly the reception on both satellites is fine with an 80cm dish.

watty

90cm dish with 28E (sky), 23.5, 19E and 13E all perfect.

You need at least a 4-way DISQC switch at dish (leave unused ports for later), or if you want to feed multiple receivers use a QUAD for Sky (3 spare Sky ports = 1 Sky+/SkyHD + 1 ordinary box) and feed Switch with one feed from Quad and the other LNB.

The picture has Quattro LNBs to feed a 16 way Multiswitch (any mix of 16 ordinary receivers down to 8 PVRs, inc Sky/Sky+/SkyHD if the Sky LNB is port 1).

beolight

nice pic watty

how much would that set up cost?

excuse my ignorance but how can all 4 positions be achieved assuming somebody in bedroom is watching Sky?

"28E (sky), 23.5, 19E and 13E "

16 way multiswitch is interesting do have link to one you would use?

watty

I used http://www.emp-centauri.cz/
but there are dozens of manufactures

Go http://www.hm-sat-shop.de/multischalter-spaun/

Click on English Flag and "Multi-Switch" in Menu
Triax, Spaun, EMP are all good.

Some need all LNBs to be Quattros. Some can take a regular QUAD LNB as 1st LNB.

If you want one or two Sky boxes (only one can be Sky+ or SkyHD) and a non-Sky FTA receiver for 2 to 4 satellites have a QUAD LNB for Sky and single output LNBs for 19, 13 etc and feed the 2nd receiver via this
http://www.hm-sat-shop.de/diseqc-relais-clarke-tech/clarke-tech-diseqc-4-1-switch.html

It gets fed with one connection from each LNB and the Sky box is fed direct from one or two outlets on the 28E quad.

You can't split an LNB signal for more receivers than LNB outlets, unless you use a multiswitch and Quattro LNBs. The Sky box can't use a switch so on a Multiswitch it only "sees" the 1st LNB.

If you want more than 1 receiver to get multiple satellites you need a Multiswitch. A regular Diseqc switch only feeds one non-PVR receiver.

I've had 3 sky boxes (down to one now), 2 PCs with two cards each and a Dual tuner ReelBox Lite all off the dish in picture. I have a second motorised Dish (1.1m) for a single receiver for "hobby" purposes, about 22 satellites receivable. Motorised can only ever sensibly drive one receiver and is slow. The Multiswitch or 4-way Diseqc is as fast as ordinary channel change.

Reliable Irish source for 4 way switch
http://www.satellite.ie/acatalog/Diseqc_Switches.html