Dual LNB with six receivers

[PrivateGuy™!]

Ok this was the first time I had tried this and it was a success so I will share it with you all. Yesterday I successfully split a single LNB 3 ways, so I will share how I did this and equipment used. Since the owners of the home have not yet moved in the longterm success or problems that may occur can not be seen as of yet. The equipment used is as follows. Four Hughes D11 receivers and two Hughes E25's. LNB is a dual LNB from Aspen. Multiswitch is also Aspen and two AVI 40-2150 MHz diode controlled dual DC pass splitter. I split legs one and four of the muliswitch and so far have not seen any odd even transponder problems that usually accure with this sort of split. If anyone has experience with this type of setup please post your concerns because this is the first one I have attempted. The only reason this was attempted in the first place was because the home owners only wanted one dish. They understand that if this doesnt work that they will need the other dish but I'm always out to try the impossible!

PrivateGuy™

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Several ways to address the problem (if a problem pops up).

1. The Multiswitches are cascadable...take two of the outputs from MS#1 to the inputs of MS#2...total six receiver outputs. I am doing this now at home with the oval dish.

2. Buy an eight port multiswitch from a commercial satellite supplier. If you can't find one, they are available from Anixter Inc....the home office number (Skokie IL) is (847)677-2600. They have units from Blonder-Tongue (spelling is probably wrong) from four ports to 64 ports.

BTW: B-T also has integrated rack-mount units with two receivers per unit for private cable installation...it's commercial grade stuff, not cheap, but not too horrible.

Hope this helps.

Scott

[PrivateGuy™!]

Thanks for the reply. I didnt know they made those type of multiswitches but then again thats why I posted this in the first place.(Always learnin!) If you are intrested I would like to possibly through some ideas your way concerning problems I've been having with running digital cable through muliswitches(on antenna side). Heres my mail...privateguy2000@hotmail.com

P.S If B-T has a web site please e-mail it to me. Theres no posting of commercial URL's here so you will have to mail it to me.

Thanks in advance.
PrivateGuy™

[This message has been edited by PrivateGuy™! (edited 01-14-2000).]

[gunsmoke2]

Many different multiswitches.. up to 16 port.

Passive.. Powered..

[PrivateGuy™!]

Gunsmoke, have you used the larger powered multiswitches? Are there problems with over modulation things like that? Seems everytime I use an amp I get color bleeds, osilating lines and things of this nature. Usually they are minor but still I can see them. I wonder if filters of some sort will correct this...

PrivateGuy™

[PrivateGuy™!]

Point well takin.

PrivateGuy™

[Card Doc]

FYI... I've had Channel Master 8 Port Powered multi switch ports go bad. Not really sure why they went bad. I would guess a surge may have caused the ports to fail but the unaffected ports remained usable. Out of 45 CM multi switches, only 3 went bad and when replaced, they seemed to be the only ones that were bad.

On the down side, Channel Master is EXPENSIVE and they only provide a 1 year warranty. Aspen, in my opinion, is a more affordable product and just a little behind a Channel Master in it's construction.

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[This message has been edited by Card Doc (edited 01-15-2000).]

[gunsmoke2]

I have personnally used 8 ports and sold a 16 port to someone.

Have not experienced any problems and they were passive ( non powered )

Have used channel master and others ( Aspen )

I can only assume there are different qualities of multiswitches and some performed better than others.

[White Lighting]

In a rush guys: but saw this post. Man to talk to is Dino. Find all his info thru card wash, Banner is on Dss Underground. He's damn goood at that kinda set up, and he's lost me twice; but will catch up, ck it out and


Lites Out!

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PrivateGuy:

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, things have been busy. I have no direct experience with digital cable...I hope I never do. One of the greatest joys in my long ugly life was taking the cable box back to the cable company and telling them to stuff it sideways....

I have some friends with Dig cable, but they are all conventional installations: one box, one TV. The only issue I can think of might be insertion loss for the diplexors. Perhaps you can amp the cable signal at the entry to offset the losses..unless they're using a cable modem (the amps aren't bi-directional).Then I guess you'd have to split at the I entry, and amp the diminished signal (usually sucks because you are amping the noise floor as well).

Sorry I can't offer anything better...

Scott.