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whizbang

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#70739 29-Oct-2010 18:44

Hi,

Two LNB's on one dish, one pointed at D1, the other at D2.

Want the ability to use a single satellite receiver in either of two rooms, kitchen/living or lounge (we will only ever have one receiver, not two).  So we simply want the flexibility of being able to re-locate our receiver into the other room.  We won't have two satellite receivers at the same time.

Will the following work?

The two LNB's connected to a Diseqc switch.  Then from the switch, split via an all power ports pass splitter to the two rooms.

Only one satellite receive will ever be used, we won't have one in each room at the same time.

Thanks

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illicit
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  #397478 29-Oct-2010 18:58
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Yes



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  #397506 29-Oct-2010 20:27
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You do need a larger dish (60-90cm) as opposed to say a travel 45 however. And a LNB bracket to offset a heap.

Theres a bit of a gap between D1 and D2 (8-10 degrees on the deck) which is compensated by hanging a LNB off to the side (narrower bounce area on dish face than normal), C1 and D1 however are in the same spot more or less so need no adjustment with a standard sky dish.


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  #397521 29-Oct-2010 20:54
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Yes, that will be fine, but if you look at the prices of a multiswitch on eBay, you may as well get one. No need for diseq, a 22kHz is all that is needed to switch over to the other pair of inputs.

If you for some reason really want to get the sbs stuff off D1, then you would need a dual output LNB, seem pretty common nowdays, when I was interested in getting sat reception working they were rare here.




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