[mythtv-users] MythTV and twin-tuner Freesat

[Nick Morrott]

2009/11/11 Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You'll need a dual/quad LNB on your dish, and 2 (or more) cables
>> running down to your machine
>
> Not necessarily. Here in NZ I use a single LNB and a single cable,
> which is then split by a splitter and goes into two DVB-S cards.
>
> However we are lucky here in that all the useful stuff on the
> satellite (optus d1) is horizontal polarity. If it was a mix of
> horizontal and vertical I think I would need 2 LNB's.

UK Freesat uses several muxes of both H and V polarities, so the OP
will need 2 LNBs if using 2 DVB-S tuners.

Astra2D details here:
http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear
Eurobird1 details here:
http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.5E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear

Cheers,
Nick

-- 
Nick Morrott

MythTV Official wiki: http://mythtv.org/wiki/
MythTV users list archive: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin