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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
multi LNB on one dish
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<blockquote data-quote="archive10" data-source="post: 750654"><p>Hi there, welcome to the forum.</p><p></p><p>By all mean do try a multi-sat setup. Single-sats are quite straightforward. Multi-sats are only slightly more complex, depending on the number of LNBs you want.</p><p></p><p>Forget the minidish. Not good for multi-LNB. Get a proper dish. As you are looking 4+ LNBs, I would say get a toroidal (Wavefrontier) T55 (or T90 if you have the room). This gives you good reception across all LNBs, no fading at the extremes. If budget is tight get a so-called multifocus (non-"toroidal") - these work ok too with the sats you are looking at.</p><p></p><p>The downside with multi-LNB dishes are that they require more fine-tuning to get proper reception acrocss all LNBs. This can be tricky (but isn't necessarily) to get right. Follow the mfgs instructions (especially the part about getting the mount absolutely vertical), and you may get good results.</p><p></p><p>A good sat meter can help out here, go on ebay and get a digital meter. Will save you hours of frustration.</p><p></p><p>If your economics and the powers that be allow, do multiple dishes + DiSEqC switch. Much easier to set up. But somewhat not so pleasing to the eye...</p><p></p><p>St1</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="archive10, post: 750654"] Hi there, welcome to the forum. By all mean do try a multi-sat setup. Single-sats are quite straightforward. Multi-sats are only slightly more complex, depending on the number of LNBs you want. Forget the minidish. Not good for multi-LNB. Get a proper dish. As you are looking 4+ LNBs, I would say get a toroidal (Wavefrontier) T55 (or T90 if you have the room). This gives you good reception across all LNBs, no fading at the extremes. If budget is tight get a so-called multifocus (non-"toroidal") - these work ok too with the sats you are looking at. The downside with multi-LNB dishes are that they require more fine-tuning to get proper reception acrocss all LNBs. This can be tricky (but isn't necessarily) to get right. Follow the mfgs instructions (especially the part about getting the mount absolutely vertical), and you may get good results. A good sat meter can help out here, go on ebay and get a digital meter. Will save you hours of frustration. If your economics and the powers that be allow, do multiple dishes + DiSEqC switch. Much easier to set up. But somewhat not so pleasing to the eye... St1 [/QUOTE]
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