How can I have both hotbird and Astra at the same time

Nrei

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Hi there. I am a completely useless on this matter. I got a technomate receiver not long ago and paid for installation and all the setting up. However somehow I manage to mess up with the settings and I'm killing myself to have both satellites astra and hotbird working at the same time as they were. Please help me!!!! Thanks
 

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Which Astra - there are several.

Astra 2 @ 28E (UK)
Astra 1 @19E (Largely German)
Astra 3 @ 23.5E (Dutch, German, Balkans)
Astra 4 @ 4.8E (Nordic, Russian)

What dish arrangement - ie Multi-LNB, Motorised, ...............
 

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Thanks for your quick reply. It's Astra 2 but I have no idea what dish arrangement it is... :(
 

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You'll want a multi-LNB one - i.e. two LNBs on a single dish sitting on a bracket.
 

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"At the same time" suggests a dish with a multi-LNB bracket, so your problem is likely to be the DiSEqC settings in the Receiver.

If you can navigate to these settings, you should find that Hotbird is set to A , or 1, or something else simple and recognisable and Astra 2 is set to B, or 2. Possibly they should be the other way around. But I suspect you'll find they are (wrongly) both the same.

But it is what you haven't yet told us that is the key: What changed between it working ok and not working ok?
 
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