2 dishes 1 box

[Hadron]

if you,ve got a fixed dish and sly lnb then you can only pick that satellite up 28 east,unless you move it to 13 east manualy and it wont pick all the channels up because sly lnb,s only pick up certain frequencys (not universal) get yourself a motor and bigger dish and the worlds your oyster

As digicon says, $ly LNB's are universal types (unless you have a really old one). They only differ from "normal" types because they are designed for $ly shaped dishes. The feedhorn is shaped to match the shape of the dish (wider that it is high), and the neck of the LNB has an unconventional fitting (unlike the 40mm fitting for "normal" LNB's).

[scooby21169]

I have a mk4 octo on my dish will it pick up hotbird and sky if i redirect to hotbird as a first and sky as secondary on a mk4 sky dish ????

[digicon]

I have a mk4 octo on my dish will it pick up hotbird and sky if i redirect to hotbird as a first and sky as secondary on a mk4 sky dish ????

Not without a second LNB and also the Zone1 dish is far too small for both 13? east and 28.2? east

[scooby21169]

think of this i hope it will save messing about with switches and the likes ...:- CDTRONIX 1m SATELLITE DISH + DISEQC 1.2 MOTOR + WALL MOUNT + 0.1db SINGLE LNB

[P&D]

your going to need twin lnb outputs and 2 switches for the last part of your question, if you only use 1 receiver at a time and one of them has an LNB loopthrough then you could use singles with 1 switch and then loop form either upstairs or downstairs to the other receiver or vice versa.

Obviously one receiver would have to be switched off while using the other, but to be honest for the price of twin LNB's and 2 switches its worth doing it that way so you could watch either sat in either room.

My original setup in one of the threads with Photo's shows mine with Smart Titanium Quad rockets X4 on 13?,19.2?,23.5?,28.2? east feeding four different receivers around the house

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f11/multi-sat-set-up-334542/index5.html#post1964061

So in this post you have 1 cable from each LNB going to a 4x1 switch then going to each box ??

is this the way to set it up so you can watch a different sat on each box at the same time.....

Many thx

[digicon]

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums...ml#post1964061
So in this post you have 1 cable from each LNB going to a 4x1 switch then going to each box ??

is this the way to set it up so you can watch a different sat on each box at the same time.....

Many thx

Correct if you only have one receiver then single lnb 2 receivers twin lnb's and so on, ofcourse when you goto twin lnb's and quads then you need more switches

[seangraves]

hi there sorry to jump in ive been readin this =thread me head spinning ...can some one explain to us what a switch is for changing tha sat location and were to get one also any info for setting this up ie got a 80cm dish would this pick extra channels up ie got 28.e wot erlse would this pick up ..thanks if the dish is fixed

[Hadron]

hi there sorry to jump in ive been readin this =thread me head spinning ...can some one explain to us what a switch is for changing tha sat location and were to get one also any info for setting this up ie got a 80cm dish would this pick extra channels up ie got 28.e wot erlse would this pick up ..thanks if the dish is fixed

A DiSEqC switch accepts inputs from different LNB's pointing to different sats & gives 1 output. You can set up the DiSEqC switching in the menu of the sat box.

The DiSEqC inputs may be labeled LNB1, LNB2 etc. (or port1, port2, etc.). So, for example, if you have your 28.2e LNB connected to LNB1, & 19.3e connected to LNB2, & 13e connected to LNB3, you would set the Antenna setup for those sats in the box menu to the corresponding inputs. Whenever you switch to a channel on a different sat, it will instantly swap LNB's. No waiting for a motor to point the dish.

If you have a fixed dish, you can buy a bracket to connect the extra LNB's to it, as digicon has done. Have a look at the link to digicon's photos above.

The DiSEqC switches & brackets are available on ebay. The switches are only a few pounds. I bought the cheapest one I could find. You will need 1 DiSEqC switch for each receiver that you want to watch mutiple sats on.

[djpopeye1971]

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