Problem With Two Dish Setup

[chrispy]

As I live in a very high area (altitude wise) the winds we get up here are incredible and regularly blow the dishes out of alignment so i've decided to go the two fixed dish route and keep my sky mini dish and use my 1.2m dish for Astra & Hotbird. The way i've got it set up is the sky lnb running in to a diseq switch on lnb A and the monoblock for Astra & Hotbird into lnb B. Both dishes are spot on but I can only receive Sky and Astra 19 east, Hotbird services and channels appear greyed out (not available). I've set the lnb configuration in the setup to diseq A/B and have sky 28 east and astra 16 east selected on each lnb input, is there something else i'm missing? Thanks in advance to anyone kind enough to help me.

 

[Lazarus]

One problem is that you cannot cascade Monoblocks with common or garden DiSEqC switches ............. don't forget the Monoblock has an inbuilt DiSEqC switch.

I believe there are fancy switches that can do more versatile stuff, but we'd better wait for someone versed in such techniques to wake up!

 

[phazblade]

I have had this working, in fact I think I found it on this Website



If you are using a Monoblock, A on the Monoblock needs to be A on the Diseqc

When your receiver sends A to the Diseqc, it also sets the Monoblock to A

When your receiver sends B to the Diseqc, it also sets the Monoblock to B

So a bit of a guess at your setup, A needs to 13E, B to be 19E, and move Sky 28E to C on the Diseqc

The Tee Piece is actually a Splitter (with DC Pass Thro) which we are using as a Joining Piece



You can find these on eBay, you will need to make up some short leads so best to get some Connectors at the same time

Have a try, all good fun .......

 

[Lazarus]

If he's using a Sky Box with his 28E dish then, as they cannot switch DiSEqC devices, that needs to be take into account too.

 

[Rick]

The best way to do it is to use an uncommitted switch, like an EMP Centauri, before the monoblock. Your reciever needs to handle cascades and diseqc 1.1 though, which your DM800 should. Another way would be to swap the monoblock for two single LNB's

 

[chrispy]

I'm not using a Sky Digibox, just the Dreambox. Thanks for the help lads, much appreciated.