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To provide many Satellite dish points

To provide many satellite dish points, (e.g. FREESAT,ZUKU,STARTIME or DSTV) around the house or in each room of your house you either need a quatro LNB on your dish or a quatro LNB dish kit  and a 5 input multiswitch (multiswitches are usually situated in a loft or cupboard or central area.)

Quad LNB
3 in 4 out multiswitch

The quatro or quad LNB (with 4 outputs) feeds the multiswitch(4: 8 port) using 4 LNB cable and it is best to put two outlets in each room as it may be that twin tuner receivers(that record one channel as you watch another) may be needed. (These are called twin tuner PVRs) If so s   Use twin coaxial cable to each room and use the twin wall plate outlets in each room.

For (e.g.) 6 rooms a 12 output multiswitch would be used. An aerial can be fed into the 5th input of the multiswitch if required. Using a wall plate which has a diplexer built in, two satellite points and an aerial point is available. The UHF aerial signal is added to the satellite signal by the multiswitch and goes down the same wire as the satellite signal. If two or three aerials are required e.g. TV, FM and DAB radio, a 3 way combiner can be fitted on the roof and the one cable from that unit goes into the 5th input of the multiswitch. Again the appropriate wall plate is needed to separate them all out again.

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 Advantages of using multiswitch instead of a splitter

  • wider range of programming which will be available to people living in a home or apartment building. Everyone will have access to all stations. Frequency and polarization won’t overlap, as they do with satellite splitters. Multiswitches also look better, since you won’t have multiple satellite dishes taking up space on your patio or balcony. Less dishes mean more space and less maintenance.
  • cost savings. You will only need to buy one dish, one multiswitch, quad LNB, coaxial cable, and receiver. You won’t pay any extra to watch TV. For the price you pay, you’ll get a significantly greater variety of programming than you do with a cable connection
  • Signal is not attenuated as when using a splitter and therefore there is no need of signal amplifier.

NB:
With the above discussed system, each point will  need a receiver. i will share with you soon on how to use one receiver with other televisions.

2 thoughts on “To provide many Satellite dish points

  1. Dear Admin,

    This website is so useful for new comers. Even though I am an ancient learner, I still need to learn a lot. I realized that I like satellites also, but don’t invest much time due to other work.
    Thank you for providing useful information.
    Ignace

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