Two dishes one receiver?!

[soggybottomboy]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m a newbie to the whole satellite business and need a little bit of assistance.

I’ve just purchased the Technomate TM 5400 CI USB Super receiver. At the moment, I use ex SKY dish for it (panting at Astra 2D)
I also have Cyfra+ decoder hooked up to the 80 cm dish pointing at Hotbird satellites.

From what I gathered, the TM 5400 can read Cyfra+ cards due to the multicrypt card reader.

My question is: is it possible to connect two dishes to one receiver (the TM 5400)?

I’ve read that I would need a Disecqc which for it, but I got really confused about the committed or uncommitted switches.

Which one would I need? Also, I’m planning to motorise my system at some point. In that in mind, what switch should I buy?

Thank you in advance.

The Soggy Bottom Boy

[SAT-WORLD]

Just get a 2 Diseqc(committed) switch,for the cheapest option.
Such as these
For a motorised setup,you do not need a diseqc switch.

[soggybottomboy]

SAT-WORLD,

Thank you for a very prompt response. I will certainly look at these switches.

Regards,

[Rick]

You may still find it useful to have a fixed dish at 28e. I find my motorised points at 1w most of the time, to watch 28e I don't need to wait for the dish to move. Also if you ever go for a PVR a fixed dish will be really usefull as it will allow you to watch a chanel on say hotbird and record from 28e.

[soggybottomboy]

Just one more thing.

Can install the switch at home or does it need to be cloe to LNBs?

My dishes are quite apart and not sure is I could installed outdoors.

Regards,

SoggyBottomBoy

[Robbo]

It can go anywhere, just at the back of the receiver if you want.

[soggybottomboy]

Cheers Robbo.

Much appreciated.

Regards,