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Originally Posted by mikedmc
So maybe save a bit of time and money getting a sat finder off ebay while I'm deciding on the starter system specs?
This lnb malarky, I noticed all the posts regarding quad lnb's etc. which I think I would definitely want to do, and pretty quickly as would want a larger selection of channels. Now each lnb is used per satellite? So a single lnb would not work on multiple sats at same time? So pointing at 42E would get everything from the sats at that point with one lnb? and the second could point at 28.2E and the 3rd from 19.2E (not sure what these sats just using the figures Ive seen mentioned before). Hope that makes sense to someone  . |
You've got the wrong end of the stick I'm afraid ... the LNB picks up whatever the dish collects, regardless of how many satellites are involved. But you need one LNB feed for each tuner in your system. So for a simple Ross box, with one tuner, you only need a mono-LNB, but for the more expensive box with a PVR, there are two tuners, so you need a dual-LNB. Or, if you had two basic boxes, one in the lounge and one in the bedroom, you would need a dual-LNB for that as well.
If you have four tuners (say, a PVR in the lounge and basic boxes in the kitchen and master bedroom), you would need a quad-LNB. You can go on and on, adding more tuners - you can get an octo-LNB if you need 8 feeds, for example.
Sat broadcasts intended for the UK come from a number of different satellites, but they are all very close together in the sky, so one properly-aligned dish, aimed at a compromise point between them, will adequately collect all the signals you need. As others in this thread have testified, you can do this without a sat finder, but if you can nab one cheap off eBay, it is undoubtedly more straightforward if you do have one.