which two sats to point at?

eoinf

I am getting a sat installed by a mate and he mentioned that its a twin LNB. Does this mean i can point it at two different Sats?

If so which are the best two to point at , one will obviously be the sky sat .

Just wondering if there is anything to pick on another satellite, say hotbird?

steveon

A twin lnb usually refers to it having 2 outputs from the same sat that the dish is pointed at.

A mono-block is where there is 2 seperate lnbs joined to give usually sat that are close together e.g 19 and 13 degrees but personally I prefer a triax dish with multibar that you can slide the lnbs to the desired degree.

emanresu

I think this means that you can connect up two Satellite Receivers/TV Sets in different rooms to the one dish, not that you can get signals from two satellites.

(Although when your dish is pointed at Astra 28.2°E, you will also pick up Eurobird1 at 28.5°E)



Edit:
To explain, I didn't see steveon's post before I posted mine.

eoinf

right makes sense now.

Cheers