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mayo*1
09-07-07, 12:23 AM
can it be done? one for each bird? 99,101,103,110 and 119?
i live in an area where the slimline dish cant get all 5 sats. i currenty have a (bigger)dish pointed at the 101, another at the 110 and one more to the 119. all with regular LNBīs , going into a multiswitch, then to my H20. now, with the new birds going up, i will need to get 2 more big antennas for the new HD channels. is there a way to do this?
(LNB and multiswitch question)
litzdog911
09-07-07, 12:59 AM
No. But it is possible to combine a couple of 5-LNB dishes together, or add a couple of single LNB dishes to one 5-LNB dish. Learn more here ....

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=62223

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=94585
tim81
09-07-07, 01:08 AM
can it be done? one for each bird? 99,101,103,110 and 119?
i live in an area where the slimline dish cant get all 5 sats. i currenty have a (bigger)dish pointed at the 101, another at the 110 and one more to the 119. all with regular LNBīs , going into a multiswitch, then to my H20. now, with the new birds going up, i will need to get 2 more big antennas for the new HD channels. is there a way to do this?
(LNB and multiswitch question)

i'm not as expert as the people around here, but i imagine it would be difficult to be done since the individual lnbs are filtering out a specific signal, but then again if it has more to do with the positioning of the lnbs in relation to where the signal is bouncing off the dish than the actual lnb itself, it could be done...

not sure if this was helpful...:rolleyes:
litzdog911
09-07-07, 01:20 PM
i'm not as expert as the people around here, but i imagine it would be difficult to be done since the individual lnbs are filtering out a specific signal, but then again if it has more to do with the positioning of the lnbs in relation to where the signal is bouncing off the dish than the actual lnb itself, it could be done...

not sure if this was helpful...:rolleyes:

Plus the Ka-band satellite (99 & 103-deg W) and Ku-band (101, 110 and 119-deg W) are different frequencies, so different LNBs are required. Right now the only Ka-band LNBs that work with DirecTV's satellites are bundled into the AT9 and AU9 5-LNB dishes.