[?uestloves_afro]

Hi,

I recently got a Hotbird system installed primarily to allow my wife and child to wach Polish TV. The plus side for me was that I could get the odd football match on FTA.

Anyway, the guy in the sat shop persuaded me that I should just get a 60cm dish rather than pay extra for a dish that could receive Astra as well (80cm ??) as most of the channels were on both. Thing is I have noticed that some games I have wanted to watch have only been on Astra. This Thursday being a good example as the Dons are being shown against bayern on Pro Sieben.

Would I need a bigger dish ( iam in in central scotland) I know I need a dual lnb but do you need extra cabling. How much would an installer charge to alter this system excluding hardware ??? Approx ???

Thanks in advance.

[bazovcarlisle]

why dont you just get a dual lnb with this you would be able to get both 13e hotbird and 19.2 astra and all you have to do is change lnbs

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Originally Posted by bazovcarlisle

why dont you just get a dual lnb with this you would be able to get both 13e hotbird and 19.2 astra and all you have to do is change lnbs

Read his actual post mate

60cm I think is a bit small for Hotbird honestly anyway.

[tigertimtim]

go to another sat dealer, he doesnt know what hes talking about, most channels definetly are not the same satellites, get the bigger dish, lots of prem football and movies on 19e astra with the right box and firmware, look up technomate 1500 reciever.

[Daruka]

I live in Holland and recently upgraded my setup to a dual LNB on an 80CM dish.

I get all Dutch and hundreds of German, French, etc etc, channels FREE.

The other LNB is on Astra 2 for all the BBC channels.

I have no use for SKY and hate SKY NEWS which smells like FASCIST FOX NEWS in the USA.

[?uestloves_afro]

Ok... thanks for the replies so far.

Do I need extra cabling or just a dual lnb and dish. I presume I can fit it onto the existing arm. Is this an expensive job ? I have a radix receiver which should allow me to pick up 1000's of channels. Why do you recommend a technomate ?

Thanks again

[Daruka]

Usually its best to buy the DUAL LNB holder for the specific Dish.

Mine Dish is a Triax and the holder plus 2 LNB's was 40 Euros.

You should check if you receiver is Disq 1.2 compatible and buy a Disq switch which fits between the 2 LNB's.

This allows your receiver to pick up both satellites..

Very important.

[thegeby]

Diseqc 1.0 is fine for switching between LNBs. Diseqc 1.2 will do motors as well.

obviously a 80 cm or a 1 metre be better. esp if twin feed lnbs i had a annolgue twin LNB system years back for eutelsat and astra

[eggonline]

STOP

you dont want a Dual LNB. - thats usually means 1 LNB with twin feeds (ie for sky+ or to watch 2x channels off 1 dish)

If all you want is Astra 19.2 & Hotbird 13.0 then get a monoblock/monobloc - this is an LNB with another LNB next to it, but only has 1 cable.....

You could get fancy & get a torodial dish

With one of those you could get Astra 28, Astra 19, Eutelsat 16 & Hotbird 13


Why did he only sell you a 60cm Dish? You may struggle with some channels - especially those aimed at the middle east.

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Originally Posted by eggonline

Why did he only sell you a 60cm Dish? You may struggle with some channels - especially those aimed at the middle east.

Hotbird has no beams aimed at the middle east, middle east content maybe but not aimed there.

[arthurdentpc]

I have a triple LNB setup which can be bought 'off the shelf' and points to Hotbird, Astra and Sky. There are 2 cables from it, 1 for the Sky receiver and 1 cable from the Hotbird and Astra LNBs to a Technomate receiver (they're just good, solid, popular boxes btw).

The dish (I'm in N. Ireland) is 1m (eliptical, nor circular though) - any less would be useless, and I suspect if you're going to upgrade a 1m dish would do you no harm either.

Basically - go to a good local specialist, and tell him what you need.