Hello,
I'm new to the wonderful world of satellite TV so looking for some advice. I recently moved into a house that has two existing satellite dishes installed (as you can see from the photo below)
I have a Samsung UE49MU6470U TV, which has a built-in satellite tuner (it actually says Freesat HD tuner but there seem to be more options available in the settings).
Sat A (the higher of the two) is a Sky mini dish. I don't have Sky but I have connected that directly to the TV and it has picked up Astra 2.28E Freesat no problems.
Now Sat B is more interesting. I know that the previous owner had someone come and fit this dish so that they could receive TV channels from Europe, and that the had a separate 'decoder' (I'm assuming a receiver like a Technomate or somesuch). I'm really keen to try and pick up Astra 1 or Hotbird 13E or preferably both. The fact this dish has 4 LNBs on it suggests to me (from my limited reading) that it might actually be set up to receive from more than one satellite.
I'd go ahead and give Sat B a go with my TV except the coax isn't terminated so I need to pick up an F connector tomorrow from Maplin.
My plan is:
Any advice much appreciated. I'm keen to do this myself (with reading and a little help from forums).
Cheers!
I'm new to the wonderful world of satellite TV so looking for some advice. I recently moved into a house that has two existing satellite dishes installed (as you can see from the photo below)
I have a Samsung UE49MU6470U TV, which has a built-in satellite tuner (it actually says Freesat HD tuner but there seem to be more options available in the settings).
Sat A (the higher of the two) is a Sky mini dish. I don't have Sky but I have connected that directly to the TV and it has picked up Astra 2.28E Freesat no problems.
Now Sat B is more interesting. I know that the previous owner had someone come and fit this dish so that they could receive TV channels from Europe, and that the had a separate 'decoder' (I'm assuming a receiver like a Technomate or somesuch). I'm really keen to try and pick up Astra 1 or Hotbird 13E or preferably both. The fact this dish has 4 LNBs on it suggests to me (from my limited reading) that it might actually be set up to receive from more than one satellite.
I'd go ahead and give Sat B a go with my TV except the coax isn't terminated so I need to pick up an F connector tomorrow from Maplin.
My plan is:
- Terminate Sat B's coax cable with an F connector, connect to my TV and see if I can tune in one or more satellites from it. There is a feature in the auto tuning to set up 'Satellite' rather than 'Freesat' and that allows you to set up multiple satellites and step through each and check signal strength. If I get one or more hits then game on...
- Purchase a DiSEqc switch (from reading on forums sounds like it would be best to stick with a 1.0 variety), put both feeds into that and get a separate short coax to do the last leg from the switch into the TV.
- Setup the tuner on the TV to auto tune Astra 2.28E from Sat A on DiSEqc 1/4 (or whatever channel), and whatever other satellites I can get with Sat B on DiSEqc 3/4 (or whatever channel).
- Hopefully, kick back and surf seamlessly through the channels from 2 or more satellites!
Any advice much appreciated. I'm keen to do this myself (with reading and a little help from forums).
Cheers!