Old Sky Analogue Dish - Digital Reception

Supercell

Have an old analogue dish in the back garden of my new flat, am guessing its pointed at 19.2 E .

Is this suitable to put a dual or triple digital lnb setup ? , and if so, it would appear that the default position , ie 19.2 E for the old analogue system is already perfect for this, or do i need to adjust any of the settings?

TIA

watty

There are no ANALOG dishes. Just little dishes and big ones.

yes you can put LNB on RHS close to holder and it will get Hotbird if main LNB is on Astra 19E.

An LNB about 4" to LHS facing dish and slightly higher (1") will pickup Astra2/Eurobird Sky Digital, but a bit of patience to align. Better signal in rain than a mini dish.

http://homepage.eircom.net/~watty/satellite/satellite.htm

Click on multisat reception on my site. About 2 years old so bits are out of date.


Some older LNBs don't have 22Khz tone switch for 11.7GHz to 12.6GHz band, so only some digital stations can be received. Analog receivers *mostly* use non tone switched LNBs but some had the Universal LNBs. If it says 10.000 on the LNB label it is only lower band, no switching.

So LNBs, strictly arent really Digital or Analog either, only the receivers!

P.S. For newbies the LNB = Low Noise Block, really the "front" part of the receiver, converting and amplifying the faint Microwave signal as a very strong "cable level" UHF signal. It is the bobbly bit on the end of the arm in front of a dish.

So the threaded "F-Connector" on a Satellite receiver is not really an aerial socket. The bits connected to a terrestrial receivers Aerial socket are actually inside the LNB, which gets 14V or 18V DC power down the coax cable.

Supercell

Thats great info, thanks watty, i'll be giving it a go this weekend so.