How to connect this up

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RedDwarf

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My Satellite Setup
Sky Minidish and Sky Digibox signal now detected
Core 2 Q9450 up to 3.5GHz
Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 motherboard
4GB DDR2
Gigabyte 3850 Gfx card
Mystique Dual DVB-S2 PCI-e
Pinnacle Dual DVB-T Pro PCI
My Location
Central Midlands, UK
I am fitting a new dish and so will have two dishes and I want to be able to use both of them. I also have terrestrial TV and all of this needs to go to my PC via two co axial leads from the loft. I currently have the one dish with a quad LNB which I have diplexed onto one of the cables with the UHF feed from my Aerial. The TV lead also carries DAB too. The first location feeds a PC with a Dual tuner DVB-S2 DiSEqC 2.0 card and Dual DVB-T card.

As I understand it a DiSEqC switch is required and what I want to know is how would it be best to fit this all together with the least number of connections? Does anyone know of the item and manufacturer that I require? Having the option of two LNB feeds from each dish to two different locations and being able to select between the dishes would be preferred.

I do have a loft box which can handle two LNB inputs from one dish and diplex onto the TV down lead.

So is there anything suitable and if so what is it?
 
I presume the second dish is pointing at a different satellite, all you need is two x 2 way DiSEqC switches close to the dishes with a feed from each. Lots of different makes around, you can get them from several of our forum supporting advertisers.
 
rolfw said:
I presume the second dish is pointing at a different satellite,
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Not necessarily, I was just planning on using the old Sky dish for something and I doubt I can get much further than 28E due to trees. Even as a backup in the rare case of snow stopping the other from working.

all you need is two x 2 way DiSEqC switches close to the dishes with a feed from each. Lots of different makes around, you can get them from several of our forum supporting advertisers.
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I hoped to have something which would lessen the number of connections and would combine the UHF and Satellites onto one down lead. I am already using a wallplate to split them so I wanted to minimize the number of connections in the loft. ATM I have a diplexer combining the UHF onto one LNB Sat feed down to my PC. Adding a switch to that is only adding to the connections. A combined UHF diplexer and switch would be ideal if it will do what I need. There is the 2nd (Main) TV out to take into account. All this needs to work with a Starbox loftbox feeds in some way with UHF onto two leads at two different places. The other two LNB feed leads, one going to each place, don't really need UHF. There is also DAB too.

I did see such a device on an American website but it looked more than I really needed with a lot of connections possible. I don't know whether that would be compatible with Euro systems anyway.
 
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