cinnamon_oil
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Hi. I know that all these are likely very easy questions, but a bit of someone else's experience is worth a thousand Google searches sometimes!
I've currently replaced a minidish with a cheap 80cm dish (it's the one Lidl were selling last year) fitted with a quad LNB aligned on Astra2 - two outputs connected to two Sky digiboxes, both with excellent signal strength and quality. I'm now looking at having a third receiver (probably a Dreambox) and fitting multiple LNBs to the dish.
Ideally I'd like the receiver to be able to pick up Astra 1, Astra 2 and Hotbird. After a bit of reading around my guess is that I either need a 3 LNB mount of some kind - two standard LNBs with the quad - or a 2 LNB mount and use a monoblock LNB in combination with the existing quad. What would be best, and what would be cheapest - not always the same thing!
Presumably I'll also need a piece of kit to allow the receiver to switch between the two or three LNBs (unless it has two inputs, in which case the monoblock + quad might work - I have no idea if that is the case). What's recommended? Is it better to run two/three cables inside and then do the switching there, or do the switching near the dish and run a single cable?
Thanks in advance for any help offered! As you can tell I'm slightly confused...
I've currently replaced a minidish with a cheap 80cm dish (it's the one Lidl were selling last year) fitted with a quad LNB aligned on Astra2 - two outputs connected to two Sky digiboxes, both with excellent signal strength and quality. I'm now looking at having a third receiver (probably a Dreambox) and fitting multiple LNBs to the dish.
Ideally I'd like the receiver to be able to pick up Astra 1, Astra 2 and Hotbird. After a bit of reading around my guess is that I either need a 3 LNB mount of some kind - two standard LNBs with the quad - or a 2 LNB mount and use a monoblock LNB in combination with the existing quad. What would be best, and what would be cheapest - not always the same thing!
Presumably I'll also need a piece of kit to allow the receiver to switch between the two or three LNBs (unless it has two inputs, in which case the monoblock + quad might work - I have no idea if that is the case). What's recommended? Is it better to run two/three cables inside and then do the switching there, or do the switching near the dish and run a single cable?
Thanks in advance for any help offered! As you can tell I'm slightly confused...