garym71
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- Aug 7, 2007
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- My Satellite Setup
- Pace TDS470N Sky+ Receiver, Technomate TM-5400CI+ FTA Receiver, Raven Gemini 70cm Mesh Dish with East & West offset LNB brackets, 2 x Inverto Black Ultra Single LNBs, Inverto Black Premium Quad LNB, Eurostar 4x1 DiSEqC Switch, Webro WF100 Cable
- My Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
You'll have to excuse my ignorance as I'm a complete novice when it comes to satellite systems/equipment but I have what is probabaly a some very straight forward questions which will probably be a doddle for the experts to answer.
I currently have standard Sky installed in my house (not Sky+) which has a 53cm x 43cm minidish mounted on the outside of the house with one single-feed LNB attached.
What I now want is to also be able to receive Russian TV channels (ones listed in this link). For now I'm not worried about the actual reciever equipment which I will worry about later but what I need to try and work out is what Dish and LNB setup I need.
I don't really want 2 dishes on my house so I would like to use a single dish. I know from research that the Sky dish is really too small so I will need to replace it with something larger. So the initial questions I have...
I currently have standard Sky installed in my house (not Sky+) which has a 53cm x 43cm minidish mounted on the outside of the house with one single-feed LNB attached.
What I now want is to also be able to receive Russian TV channels (ones listed in this link). For now I'm not worried about the actual reciever equipment which I will worry about later but what I need to try and work out is what Dish and LNB setup I need.
I don't really want 2 dishes on my house so I would like to use a single dish. I know from research that the Sky dish is really too small so I will need to replace it with something larger. So the initial questions I have...
- Can I receive Sky (on Astra 28.2E?) and also the main Russian channels (on Hotbird 13E) using a single fixed dish?
- If the answer is yes to the first question then for additional Russian channels broadcast on Sirus 5E could I still use the same fixed dish?
- If I will be able to utilise a single dish for either of the first 2 questions then would an 80cm one most likely be sufficient for my needs? (location-wise I'm based just south of Oxford if it makes much difference)
- For receiving signals from multiple satellites on a single fixed dish can I use a multi-feed LNB (dual, quad etc.) for the individual satellite feeds or will I need a separate LNB for each satellite feed?