Adam792
Specialist Contributor
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2009
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- Age
- 31
- My Satellite Setup
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Dishes: 80cm (5°W), 80cm (30°W), 60cm Zone 2 (13°E/19.2°E/28.2°E)
Receivers: HTPC w/ TBS6905 4x DVB-S2 PCIe tuner card running TVHeadend, Octagon SF8008 mini.
- My Location
- Cheltenham
Just a quick question before I try this and damage anything!
Until recently, we had Sky Q, and we now have a remaining Sky zone 1 dish with the bog standard Sky Q LNB (not a hybrid), installed high up on the wall where I have no means of reaching. (This system has always been completely separate from my other dishes as this is the best way for me to avoid any complaints... )
It'd be nice to have access to the new Pick HD channel on 12363V for some of the football in the next few weeks rather than the grotty SD on Freeview. As I can't get to the dish to swap over the LNB for one of the minidish universal ones I have lying about, how far will I get using a normal receiver?
As I understand it, from bits I've read from other posts on here - of the two outputs of the Sky Q LNB, one gives all H frequencies and one gives all V, with the LO being 10.41GHz and the voltage given by the SkyQ box being 12V.
If I work out which feed is the vertical, and tune to 12553V -
12363 - 10410 + 10600 = 12553
Is this bodge likely to work? Or will the 13V and 22kHz tone output damage the Sky Q LNB?
I'm happy to give it a try as long as it's not likely to break anything.
Until recently, we had Sky Q, and we now have a remaining Sky zone 1 dish with the bog standard Sky Q LNB (not a hybrid), installed high up on the wall where I have no means of reaching. (This system has always been completely separate from my other dishes as this is the best way for me to avoid any complaints... )
It'd be nice to have access to the new Pick HD channel on 12363V for some of the football in the next few weeks rather than the grotty SD on Freeview. As I can't get to the dish to swap over the LNB for one of the minidish universal ones I have lying about, how far will I get using a normal receiver?
As I understand it, from bits I've read from other posts on here - of the two outputs of the Sky Q LNB, one gives all H frequencies and one gives all V, with the LO being 10.41GHz and the voltage given by the SkyQ box being 12V.
If I work out which feed is the vertical, and tune to 12553V -
12363 - 10410 + 10600 = 12553
Is this bodge likely to work? Or will the 13V and 22kHz tone output damage the Sky Q LNB?
I'm happy to give it a try as long as it's not likely to break anything.