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Mr_Squidge · 26-08-07, 02:16 PM

Hi all

I'm fairly new to this, so apologies for the newbie question.

I have a fixed 80cm dish and a Patched TM1500. I also bought a 12mth Digital Alb Sub to watch the footie.

I currently have my dish pointing at Astra 19.2e (legacy of analogue set-up to watch Eurosport) and have found that I can pick-up some good channels with the TM. Reading around the forums it also seems that Hotbird 13.0e seems to be worth picking up. Obviously to make use of the DigitalALB card I will need to pick-up Eutelsat W2 on 16.

So, my question: is it possible to get 19.2, 16.0 and 13.0? Could I get a 3 degree monoblock and use my spare LNB to pick-up Hotbird? Would there be enough room to space 3 lnbs across 6 degrees? Does a 'triple' monoblock exist? I assume that I will be able to use the TM1500 to switch between LNBs?

Any help appreciated.

lincsat · 26-08-07, 06:57 PM

I've not heard of a triple Monoblock and you won't get 3 LNB's in that small gap - get yourself a Diseq/USALS motor and Motorise the dish, you should be able to get a few more satellites too

26-08-07, 02:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
Mr_Squidge Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Aldershot, Hampshire Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Astra 19.2e, Eutelsat W2 16e and Hotbird 13e Hi all I'm fairly new to this, so apologies for the newbie question. I have a fixed 80cm dish and a Patched TM1500. I also bought a 12mth Digital Alb Sub to watch the footie. I currently have my dish pointing at Astra 19.2e (legacy of analogue set-up to watch Eurosport) and have found that I can pick-up some good channels with the TM. Reading around the forums it also seems that Hotbird 13.0e seems to be worth picking up. Obviously to make use of the DigitalALB card I will need to pick-up Eutelsat W2 on 16. So, my question: is it possible to get 19.2, 16.0 and 13.0? Could I get a 3 degree monoblock and use my spare LNB to pick-up Hotbird? Would there be enough room to space 3 lnbs across 6 degrees? Does a 'triple' monoblock exist? I assume that I will be able to use the TM1500 to switch between LNBs? Any help appreciated.

26-08-07, 06:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
lincsat Super-Dooper Moderator Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: In front of the PC Posts: 6,002 Thanks: 8 Thanked 2,580 Times in 667 Posts	Re: Astra 19.2e, Eutelsat W2 16e and Hotbird 13e I've not heard of a triple Monoblock and you won't get 3 LNB's in that small gap - get yourself a Diseq/USALS motor and Motorise the dish, you should be able to get a few more satellites too