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Hi guys I have a sky dish on the side of my house with sat cable running into my living room into my box where I can watch sky. I am planning on buying a Freesat box for the bedroom and my plan is to replace the single LNB on the sat with a dual/quad LNB and run a cable up to the bedroom as well. Would this enable to downstairs box and bedroom box to work properly? Any reccomendations for LNBs? Cheers | ||
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| Site administrator  Join Date: 26-07-2003 Location: Scottish Borders
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: Sky UK. FTA analogue & digital satellite from 6 fixed dishes (5E/7E/9E/10E/13E/16E/ 19E/23E/28E) Pace MSS100, Echostar IP3000VA, Technomate TM-1000D, Dreambox 7020S  The last noble sat warrior to fly the olden flag of Analogue | Yes it will work. You will probably install a quad lnb - the dual lnb's disappeared ages ago for Sky dishes. | ||
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| Toute Ronde Bon Oeuf  Real name: Gordon Join Date: 29-05-2009 Location: North Yorks Moors
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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. | Your plan is sound. Makes no odds which Quad (You won't be able to get a Twin) you get: Go for the cheapest  | ||
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My System: Motorised ASC 1.2m,1224 Supermount with C120 Invacom Quad LNB with Matched Feedhorn. | Just make sure you get the right type for your dish as sky dishes have recently changed design and the new lnbs won't fit the older dishes and vice versa. The older lnbs slide into the boom arm whereas the new ones fit over the new (hollow) boom arm | ||
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| Toute Ronde Bon Oeuf Real name: Gordon Join Date: 29-05-2009 Location: North Yorks Moors
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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. | Ah, yes. Good point. Don't they come with an array of adapters? I know they didn't at first, but vaguely recall it being mentioned that they soon would. | ||
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My System: Zone1, DSI8215 SkyHD, Thomson DSI4214, TF5000CI, Dreambox DM800 HD PVR - Nab BH0.12, TM-5200D, Gibertini 104cm, SNH-031, 36v Actuator, Vbox-II, 42°E to 30°W, Sling Media, Televes H45 Digital Processing Analyser, Satlook Micro+G2 NIT, Rover SDM 1s |
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My System: DM600S with Gemini image | Cheers for the help guys Does it matter what brand the LNB is or are they all they same practically? I have seen thompson, MTI, Zinwell etc so is there a generally accepted better brand. | ||
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My System: Motorised ASC 1.2m,1224 Supermount with C120 Invacom Quad LNB with Matched Feedhorn. | Makes no odds really although I have had a few faulty mti issued before | ||
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| Super Moderator Real name: Paul Join Date: 07-05-2007 Location: South Midlands, UK & Lanzarote, Canary Islands
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My System: Zone1, DSI8215 SkyHD, Thomson DSI4214, TF5000CI, Dreambox DM800 HD PVR - Nab BH0.12, TM-5200D, Gibertini 104cm, SNH-031, 36v Actuator, Vbox-II, 42°E to 30°W, Sling Media, Televes H45 Digital Processing Analyser, Satlook Micro+G2 NIT, Rover SDM 1s | Last lot of quads received were Zinwell, no problems with them. | ||
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