Large building, one dish

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jrhodes

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I live in a big building and receive sky (astra 2) signal through a plug in the wall. As my landlord explained. I have a laptop which I use on WiFi
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London
Hello everybody

I am living in a large building (London) and am able to receive Sky through a coaxial plug in the wall. I have contacted my landlord about the possibility of receiving Hotbird in my flat and he replied 'only sky'.

By that I gather only Astra. Since its a large building its safe to assume it has a large dish.

In my previous home, I had three LNBs on one big dish. I used to do a trick, I used to go to the Humax and change the disec settings on it such that a fourth satellite was also addressed through LNB C ie LNB C had two satellites on it.

It worked. Can I do the same in this instance? I cant try it yet because it will involve buying a new box.

Thank you very much for your help!
 
jrhodes said:
Since its a large building its safe to assume it has a large dish.
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NO. Although if it's a multiswitch system it'll have a dish a size or two larger to overcome the higher noise floor. It'll probably be 80cm at most.

jrhodes said:
By In my previous home, I had three LNBs on one big dish. I used to do a trick, I used to go to the Humax and change the disec settings on it such that a fourth satellite was also addressed through LNB C ie LNB C had two satellites on it.

It worked. Can I do the same in this instance? I cant try it yet because it will involve buying a new box.

Thank you very much for your help!
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Theoretically you could put more LNBs on the dish and then run the leads down tp your apartment although in practice I severely doubt the landlord would let you within a country mile of the roof!
 
Thank you PaulR for your reply

I understand the possibility of adding more LNBs, but my question is whether I can tune my receiver to use the same LNB on the roof to find a nearby satellite rather than the satellite (Astra) for which the LNB is intended
 
That's an easy one: No!

The LNB is at the focal point for reception from a single Satellite position.
 
I'd check with the landlord regarding adding a small zone1 dish to serve hotbird viewing. Explain that this would be an independent dish and a single cable feed to your apartment.
 
Tivù said:
That's an easy one: No!

The LNB is at the focal point for reception from a single Satellite position.
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Are you sure? because I have tuned my Humax before to recieve Astra (28) via the LNB of Arabsat (30) and my Humax received the Astra channels just fine? there was no physical adjustment of any sort
 
jrhodes said:
Are you sure? because I have tuned my Humax before to recieve Astra (28) via the LNB of Arabsat (30) and my Humax received the Astra channels just fine? there was no physical adjustment of any sort
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Yes, he is sure.
 
jrhodes said:
I have tuned my Humax before to recieve Astra (28) via the LNB of Arabsat (30) and my Humax received the Astra channels just fine?
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I'm confused. Is that a question or a statement? Anyway if you were receiving Astra it was because the dish was pointing at that satellite. A satellite dish is a bit like a telescope; if you want to look at Jupiter it's no good pointing it at Mars.
 
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