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Check dish

  • 12-03-2019 2:28pm
    #1
    irisheddie85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭


    Hi. About to move into a new house. It has a dish on the rear wall that looks to be wired to a junction box out side the house. All the rooms in the house look to have a standard tv point in the wall. Is there an easy and cheap way to check if the dish is in working order and what rooms are/aren't receiving a signal.


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  • #2
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,969 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    A satellite meter if you have one, otherwise a satellite receiver connected to a TV or a combi sat TV.

    How many sat cables from the LNB on to dish to the house?


  • #3
    irisheddie85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭irisheddie85


    The Cush wrote: »
    A satellite meter if you have one, otherwise a satellite receiver connected to a TV or a combi sat TV.

    How many sat cables from the LNB on to dish to the house?

    Thanks. Not sure how many cables are coming off it, will check next chance I get.
    Will that make any difference to just plugging in a receiver and seeing if I get a signal or what does it affect?


  • #4
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,969 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    irisheddie85 wrote: »
    Will that make any difference to just plugging in a receiver and seeing if I get a signal or what does it affect?

    Just wondering if each output is feeding a TV point separately or is the dish feeding a multiswitch via 4 cables, where the sat feed might be combined with a terrestrial aerial feed to each point.


  • #5
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,346 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    Take a look in the junction box and see how many cables are coming from the dish and how many are connected to internal cabling . Its most likely a service box that was installed when the house was built.

    https://satellite.ie/



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