multiple lnb's on lidl receiver

x in the city

hi folks

i i was to look at Hispasat 1C / 1D (canal +), eurobird 1a,astra 2a,....,and hotbird 6 would i need 3 lnb's?

how can i configure all these with the receiver, what do i need?

sorry for all the questions.....!

Tony

Unfortunately you can only use the same dish to get satellites within 9 to 15 degrees of each other , astra 2 and hispasat are 58 degrees apart so the only way to get both is to either use a second dish or better still add a diseq motor to the dish and get many more satellites.

Hope this helps

x in the city wrote:

hi folks

i i was to look at Hispasat 1C / 1D (canal +), eurobird 1a,astra 2a,....,and hotbird 6 would i need 3 lnb's?

how can i configure all these with the receiver, what do i need?

sorry for all the questions.....!

snaps

Your right Tony there, But one of my dishes (90cm) Is looking at 1W and has offset LNB's for 13E, 19E & 28E. Thats a span of 29degrees. Don't have any problem with signal break up (Only 1w) obviously. I had to adapt an LNB arm I had but it works fine!

Tony

snaps wrote:

Your right Tony there, But one of my dishes (90cm) Is looking at 1W and has offset LNB's for 13E, 19E & 28E. Thats a span of 29degrees. Don't have any problem with signal break up (Only 1w) obviously. I had to adapt an LNB arm I had but it works fine!

excellent results, what type of dish are you using?

snaps

To be honest I am not sure what make of dish it is. All I know when I moved over from the UK many years ago I had to leave my lenson heath dish at home. I brought all the bits and bobs I could. I got hold of a solid white 90cm (890mm to be exact) with mountings and arm. I had to construct an LNB arm out of many parts and an exhaust clamp. I first had 1W (Center), 13E and 19E on the arm and I had a LNB on a scafold pole stuck into the ground for 28E well offset. When I moved house it was not possible to have this scafold pole in the ground as the dish had to go at the back of the house and the house was in the line of satellite so the dish had to go on the back wall much higher. I got hold of some solid strong steel with grooves cut in the middle which was strong enough to attached 3 LNB holders into and still support the one that was right at the end for 28E. Amazing when I put it up on the dish all satellites where near enough spot on apart form the 19.2E Lnb which took a lot adjusting to bring the weaker transponders in (DSF, TPS Multivision and the Netherland channels). Amaxing the 28.2E LNB is very strong. BBC channels come in at 100% Quality and 75-80% Strength. Even in terrible rain I don't suffer any break up at all only on 1W and a few 19.2E transponders. I constructed caps for all the LNb's out of soda bottles to keep the rain of the LNB caps. This really helped with 1W in rain. I did try .3db LNB's that I got from you but found that for 1W it made a few channels weaker even though a few were increased. So went back to my trusty .6db Cambridge LNB's. I have 2 80cms mesh dishes which occasionally I put up in the back garden for watching channels on other satellites! Thats it in a nutshell!

Also just for your info, I have a Technomate 8000mc and a Panasonic digibox (Brought from you) fed to the dish via a priority switch and then controlling the LNB's via a 4 way diseqc switch. (I find these only have a life of a few years, with small spiders getting into them and causing havock with filling the circuit board up with webs, short circuiting the switch) You possibly have put two and two toghether now and have an idea who I am? Remember when I purchased the digibox all I kept asking was about diseqc control from the digibox? Well Got around that by putting the LNB at 28E as number 1 LNB, thus the digibox then will use that LNB.

Happy new year to all you guys.