time to change channel

[elniniol999]

before i start ill say that i do not currently have any sat setup - im evaluating all my options first

was thinking wholey on a multi lnb setup to pickup 13e 16e 19e and 28e but looked at all the footy id miss from all the other sats and now considering a motor instead.

not knowing a lot about how the receiver works in turn with the motor, i was wondering how long it takes to change channel from a station on say 19e to 1w? id prob be looking at getting a technomate 1500, im assuming you can program channels from different sats in a list of your channels yea?

also, would a multi lnb setup on a motorised dish be pointless? or is there benefits in it?

cheers for any info

 

[don'tknowdon'taskme]

it will take about 10 seconds or less on longer and a multi lnb setup on motorised yes pointless m8.

 

[elniniol999]

cheers for info and quick reply

 

[Channel Hopper]

Hi elniniol999 and welcome to the forum

Since you are in Ediburgh and football is your main bag, the two questions I would ask are

Are you interested in football of all types ?
Do you live in a windy area ?

I am thinking that a Technomate with a standard sized dish (80cm) and DiSEqC motor, may not give you all you might be interested in. It might be worth looking at a larger dish in the first instance, and possibly a converter to drive a standard actuator system

 

[elniniol999]

well im lookin mainly at footy but basically anything to fill in the large area of garbage tv i receive on terrestrial.

its not hugely windy area.. im looking at an 85cm dish.

can you tell me what you actually mean by actuator etc? youve lost me!

 

[Channel Hopper]

Actuator as in standard (not DiSEqC) motor.

The converter changes the DiSEqC protocol to pulse information using four - or five - wires.