Help required in linking two dishes to one receiver 9e/13e
- Thread starter mmathews
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Lazarus
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- My Satellite Setup
- 80cm Motorised.
Several small Dishes.
Much else.
- My Location
- North York Moors
For separate Dishes (One aligned to Hotbird and the other on 9E), all you need is to run a cable from each dish to a 2 Port DiSEqC Switch.
Then the output of the switch connects by a single cable to the Receiver.
In the Receiver, you just set allocate the switch Ports in DiSEqC 1.0 or 1.1, which is very easy to do.
ie If the Receiver gives you options 1/2, 2/2 or A, B .... just set the Satellite whose LNB cable is attached to Port 1 (or A) of the switch to 1 (or A) in the Receiver ............ Port 2 (or
to 2 (or ..................
The same applies even if both LNBs are on the same Dish (Which you can do with "thin" LNBs).
In fact, if you can find a 4 degree Monoblock, you could fit that to just one dish. The DiSEqC Switch is integral to the Monoblock so you don't even need a separate one of those!
Then the output of the switch connects by a single cable to the Receiver.
In the Receiver, you just set allocate the switch Ports in DiSEqC 1.0 or 1.1, which is very easy to do.
ie If the Receiver gives you options 1/2, 2/2 or A, B .... just set the Satellite whose LNB cable is attached to Port 1 (or A) of the switch to 1 (or A) in the Receiver ............ Port 2 (or
to 2 (or ..................The same applies even if both LNBs are on the same Dish (Which you can do with "thin" LNBs).
In fact, if you can find a 4 degree Monoblock, you could fit that to just one dish. The DiSEqC Switch is integral to the Monoblock so you don't even need a separate one of those!
- My Satellite Setup
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- My Location
- Northants, Midlands UK & Lanzarote, Canary Islands
Indeed a 4.3° monoblock will be up to the job subject to dish size of course.
_http://www.sateuropa.co.uk/product_overview.asp?id=1940&catid=12&subcat=50
_http://www.sateuropa.co.uk/product_overview.asp?id=1940&catid=12&subcat=50