Satellite LNB - can it be split

You get quadLNB's and you get quatroLNB's.

For a multi switch you would need a quatro.

That said I am no expert on systems outside of sky so it may be different for you (I thought you was talking about sky, sorry).

One thing I do know is that these things are never as simple as we would want. If it seems to easy, its probably because its wrong. :)
 
dandos23 said:
As long as you are careful when replacing to LNB then it should be ok.

You will need to make sure that the LNB that you get is compatible with your model of dish as sky have changed their dishes a few times in recent years and you may find that it wont fit on the end. Any chance of a pic of the dish and LNB and I will be able to tell you which 1 you will need. :)
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Cool thanks. I assume that I cant record on my Sky plus box with the viewing card I have ? (Old suscription card that only allows freeview channels).

Thanks
 
You can only record with cards that have a subscription, so no, you wont be able to record.

How old is your dish (roughly, I dont need the day or month)?
 
What Dual LNB dish reciever can I use to attach two sky boxes to this dish:

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Thanks
 


The red circle is missing a bolt.
The green circle is a pin that needs to be removed to take the old lnb off (keep the pin!)
The yellow arrow is pointing to the lnb adaptor which you will also need (this will be more obvious when you take the old lnb off)

The lnb that you need is one of these (if this link is not allowed then please let me know and I will remove it straight away)

To be honest though. I would change the whole dish as it looks like at wont last much longer. There is a lot of rust on that and any warping to the parabolic surface will render it useless.
It might be an idea to find a friendly sky man that can have a quick look. :)
 
I still work for sky and if I left a dish like that at a customers house I would be in line for a royal b******ing. Yes the dish may well be fine but that does not mean that it will be in six months time.
Not only that, if you used to work for sky you would know that it is our policy to change every old style dish on a service call regardless of its condition.

I just read that back and it sounds like I am having a go, I dont mean it to, I just suck at writing! :)

I dont know what it is like where you live but where I am, if you find a friendly sky man, they will oftern give you a dish and quad for a £10 which will be roughly what you will pay anyway for the quad.

That said, unless you have a meter, it might be better to just change the lnd as its not fun trying to line up a dish without one. :)
 
Cheers for the help

That dish is old, but I don't think it has had a proper sky suscription for a while. I am just using an old box so I can use it as a freeview aerial.

When the snow fell off the roof I realigned the dish (it was pointing at the floor). Its pretty easy using the sky signal test when you can see the TV - I was adjusting it by leaning out of the window.
 
Cheers - ordered the right one now.

A question related to the actual viewing cards. My housemate has got his Dad's old sky+ box this weekend, it came with a Yellow viewing card one and I have the blue one.

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The blue card allows Channel 5 and recording using the box (including HDD access), it also has the correct ITV region. The yellow card won't allow recording nor Five, Five USA, Fiver etc.

I've read that the blue cards are being replaced by white ones to FTV suscribers. Will this affect the blue cards that are left over from old sky suscriptions? Also what's the difference between the yellow and blue ones?

Cheers
 
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