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Panasonic G20 digital channels in 800s

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  • #32
    AlanD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭AlanD


    In fact, could I split one of the dish feeds and send on to the tv and one to my skybox?


  • #33
    superleedsdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭superleedsdub


    AlanD wrote: »
    In fact, could I split one of the dish feeds and send on to the tv and one to my skybox?


    mmmm possible - but you would lose the use of one of your tuners on the sky box and would only be able to record one programme at a time (i`d assume)


  • #34
    AlanD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭AlanD


    What I mean, is leave both cables in to sky+ but physically split one of them with a splitter.


  • #35
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,460 ✭✭✭✭watty


    You can't sensibly split satellite cables. Don't do it. Run another cable to the Dish arm.

    Explanation and solutions
    http://www.techtir.ie/technical/splitting-satellite-cable


  • #36
    championc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭championc


    You cannot split satellite cables because the receivers send both 13v or 18v to the LNB on the dish to switch between Horozintal or Vertical Polarization.

    On your G20B, you should just set the country for UK and a UK postcode (SW1 1AA) and then the TV will setup all the Freesat channels. You can then add non-Freesat channels like SkyNews manually

    C


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  • #37
    AlanD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭AlanD


    So I have this splitter DSU-2 .. http://www.qintar.com/html/tv/dsu.htm ....no idea where I got it from. So, not understanding sat specs, could I use one of the sky dish feeds, put this in the middle, send one output to feed sky and the other output to feed the tv?

    Or can the dish feed just one device at time?


  • #38
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,460 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Each LNB connection at dish arm can only feed ONE tuner connection.
     (unless there are 4 x LNB connections to a special box called a "Multiswitch")
    http://www.techtir.ie/technical/splitting-satellite-cable


  • #39
    AlanD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭AlanD


    Excellent, thanks!


  • #40
    championc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭championc


    AlanD wrote: »
    So I have this splitter DSU-2 .. http://www.qintar.com/html/tv/dsu.htm ....no idea where I got it from. So, not understanding sat specs, could I use one of the sky dish feeds, put this in the middle, send one output to feed sky and the other output to feed the tv?

    Or can the dish feed just one device at time?

    I think also this splitter is only to separate UHF/VHF from FM so it's for an Aerial only and nothing to do with a dish


    C


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