monoblock and other dish question

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monoblock and other dish question

I have a quad LNB WITH MY S K Y DISH, WITH 2 OUTPUTS CONNECTED TO MY REGULAR S K Y + BOX AND WITH ANOTHER WIRE COMING IN TO MY HOUSE BUT JUST LYING IDLE.

I ALSO HAVE a monoblock LNB with switch built in connected to my dreambox on another dish

what do I need to connect up the idle s k y wire to my Dreambox so as to have the monoblock and the 28.2e s k y wire all coming into my dreambox.

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My System: Triax 1.1m and Orbital 80cm Motorised Dishes. Various fixed Dishes. Eclectic selection of Digital and Analogue Receivers. Complex switching and distribution that SWMBO cannot fathom. Nor me.

Well, you can't use a standard Monoblock in cascade with another DiSEqC switch, so perhaps your simplest and cheapest option is to use an A/B Isolation Switch.

Connect one input to the Monoblock and the other to the 28E feed.

Then you can select, at the push of a button on the switch, the 13/19E arrangement you already have or just the 28E feed.

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There is a way but you would have to ditch the monoblock and replace with 2 single lnbs a feed from each lnb and the third from the sky lnb go into a diseqc 4 way switch and then you configure your dreambor diseqx opt A/B/C/D

You always lose signal quality with monoblock lnb's they are the worst invention ever as you cant skew

It should not be too expensive as lnbs cheap at 6 pounds and the dual lnb holders are as cheap as 12 pounds
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Thanks for the Help.

will have a think about it.
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A monobloc can be used with a DiSEqC switch - BUT the switch needs to be of the rare (and expensive -around 60 Euro) "option" type (such as the Spaun SUR211) rather than the common "position" type. See here
_http://www.spaun.de/?lang=en&modul=products&product=871437
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