Combining Astra (Freesat) & Eutelsat (Saorsat) LNBs

Peddyr · 11-02-2019 8:05pm #1

Hello folks,

I appologise if this has been covered before, but I couldn't find it in a search...

I have a Sky dish for UK Freesat with a triple feed lnb, and I want to add a dish for Saorsat. I just can't figue out in my head how one would go about adding/combining the Ka lnb feed into the other three Astra feeds....

Can anyone advise please, or point me to a relevant video link on how to do this if possible?

TIA!

Gerry Wicklow · 11-02-2019 8:17pm

Do you only need this in one location, for a single box or would you like to be able to access Saorsat and the UK FTAs in several rooms?
Are you aware that Saorsat is RTÉ and TG4 only? Virgin is only on Saorview. (Apart from cable obviously)

Peddyr · 11-02-2019 8:26pm

Hi Gerry,

The triple 'Sky' lnb feeds three seperate rooms, with a sat box (DVB-S2) in each room. I'd like to somehow feed Saorsat into each one of the three feeds if this is possible, so that each box can have UK Freesat & Saorsat. I'm not bothered about the Virgin channels not being on Saorsat as they're basically UK programmes repeated that are availble on Freesat.

Thanks.

Gerry Wicklow · 11-02-2019 8:55pm

You can use a device called a multiswitch to combine the signals from the 2 LNBs (or more). Multiswitches come in various versions depending how may inputs and outputs you need. Many include the option of "piggybacking" a terrestrial aerial onto the satellite cables. For example this 9 into 8 allows you combine two LNBs and a terrestrial feed (8 sat in +1 terrestrial =9) with 8 outputs for 8 different tuners. A recording box will have at least 2 tuners. Each tuner sends a signal to the MS to select whichever LNB it needs. This happens instantly and is invisible to the user. Just about any sat box or sat TV will work with this except a Sky box.

Gerry Wicklow · 11-02-2019 8:58pm

If you only needed recording on one box, a 4 output MS would suffice. 2 to the recorder and 1 each for the other rooms.

If you can get a Saorview signal it is still a cheaper / better option. Some sports events are blocked on Saorsat.

Peddyr · 11-02-2019 9:04pm

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

If you only needed recording on one box, a 4 output MS would suffice. 2 to the recorder and 1 each for the other rooms.

If you can get a Saorview signal it is still a cheaper / better option. Some sports events are blocked on Saorsat.

Many thanks Gerry. I knew it could be done, but couldn't for the life of me remember how! I'm not as au fait with satellite as I am with terrestrial.

Apogee · 12-02-2019 9:15pm

3x diseqc switches would be cheaper than a multiswitch with your existing setup. One of the outputs from the Saorsat LNB can be split in two, to give you 3 outputs in total.

Combining Astra (Freesat) & Eutelsat (Saorsat) LNBs

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