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Hotbird + Astra 28.2E in one dish
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 992541" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>djdafy</p><p></p><p>Sounds like the right approach:</p><p></p><p>- The smaller TRIAX should be fine (don't go any larger than necessary because the bigger the dish, the narrower the overall beam angle it will accept!).</p><p></p><p>- The bracket may or may not be OK - it all depends on the direction in which the wall on which it is mounted is facing. If it faces approx. 19E the dish will be standing out almost at a right angle and that bracket should be just about OK for the smaller dish (although I would personally choose something rather more substantial, and with a greater standoff distance from the wall to allow better access to the azimuth/direction and elevation adjustment nuts and bolts at the rear of the dish). If however the dish axis will be an angle of less than about 70 degrees to the wall then you will need some thing standing further out from the wall or else the side edges of the dish rim could hit the wall before you can turn it enough to line up on 19E (being roughly "in the middle" between 28E and 13E).</p><p></p><p>- Unfortunately the existing Sky dish LNB won't fit the Triax (or any other normal dish) LNB clamp, and so you will need a separate LNB for each satellite you want to receive - that is one for 13E, 1 for 28E, and so on</p><p></p><p>- You then need a separate cable from each LNB to each of the receivers (because, I assume you already have a non-Sky receiver for 13E, plus the new "UK Sky" Skybox for 28E) - which means at least 1 new cable.</p><p></p><p>Note: for "UK Sky" encrypted channels you will need a proper (paid for!) Sky subscription and viewing card of some sort - and you can't record on a Sky box without one, but you don't need either for the Free-to-view Freesat channels (although the Sky box will still not record unless you have a subscription!)</p><p></p><p>OTOH, depending on which existing "non-Sky" receiver you have, and if you don't want the encrypted Sky channels on 28E, then you could add a simple 4-1 (4 in, 1 out) "diseqc" switch with short cables from the LNBs connected to that (it could go right behind the dish) and then just one cable to the receiver as most recent receivers can control such a switch (discussed many times elsewhere!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 992541, member: 176704"] djdafy Sounds like the right approach: - The smaller TRIAX should be fine (don't go any larger than necessary because the bigger the dish, the narrower the overall beam angle it will accept!). - The bracket may or may not be OK - it all depends on the direction in which the wall on which it is mounted is facing. If it faces approx. 19E the dish will be standing out almost at a right angle and that bracket should be just about OK for the smaller dish (although I would personally choose something rather more substantial, and with a greater standoff distance from the wall to allow better access to the azimuth/direction and elevation adjustment nuts and bolts at the rear of the dish). If however the dish axis will be an angle of less than about 70 degrees to the wall then you will need some thing standing further out from the wall or else the side edges of the dish rim could hit the wall before you can turn it enough to line up on 19E (being roughly "in the middle" between 28E and 13E). - Unfortunately the existing Sky dish LNB won't fit the Triax (or any other normal dish) LNB clamp, and so you will need a separate LNB for each satellite you want to receive - that is one for 13E, 1 for 28E, and so on - You then need a separate cable from each LNB to each of the receivers (because, I assume you already have a non-Sky receiver for 13E, plus the new "UK Sky" Skybox for 28E) - which means at least 1 new cable. Note: for "UK Sky" encrypted channels you will need a proper (paid for!) Sky subscription and viewing card of some sort - and you can't record on a Sky box without one, but you don't need either for the Free-to-view Freesat channels (although the Sky box will still not record unless you have a subscription!) OTOH, depending on which existing "non-Sky" receiver you have, and if you don't want the encrypted Sky channels on 28E, then you could add a simple 4-1 (4 in, 1 out) "diseqc" switch with short cables from the LNBs connected to that (it could go right behind the dish) and then just one cable to the receiver as most recent receivers can control such a switch (discussed many times elsewhere!). [/QUOTE]
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