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A question about Freesat+ with two LNBs (Astra 1 and Astra 2)
Hi,
I've just ordered a Freesat+ receiver because I'm tired of only having Now+Next for channels from the UK. My dish has 2 twin LNBs. One for Astra 1 and one for Astra 2 which go to my twin input Kathrein receiver. This all works fine. My question is whether this Humax Freesat+ will be able to find Astra 2 in Freesat mode or will I have to remove both of those DiSEqC switch things which are tied to the pole of my dish and connect only the two inputs from the Astra 2 LNB directly? My intention was to watch UK television as I currently do and just go to Non-Freesat mode to watch the news and one or two other things on German TV. I'm aware of the scheduled recordings issue if I do this. Thanks for any help with this in advance! Mark |
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Hi,
I've just ordered a Freesat+ receiver because I'm tired of only having Now+Next for channels from the UK. My dish has 2 twin LNBs. One for Astra 1 and one for Astra 2 which go to my twin input Kathrein receiver. This all works fine. My question is whether this Humax Freesat+ will be able to find Astra 2 in Freesat mode or will I have to remove both of those DiSEqC switch things which are tied to the pole of my dish and connect only the two inputs from the Astra 2 LNB directly? My intention was to watch UK television as I currently do and just go to Non-Freesat mode to watch the news and one or two other things on German TV. I'm aware of the scheduled recordings issue if I do this. Thanks for any help with this in advance! Mark http://foxsat.wikispaces.com/Setting+up+DiSEqC |
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I used this.
http://www.astra2d.com/diseqc.htm Works a treat! ![]() You may find that the Humax does not automatically find everything that you want, and a manual scan of a transponder or two might be required. For example mine short changed me on some of the HD stuff on Astra 1, but the manual scan fixed that quite easily! ![]() I'm hoping that Humax fix the loss of scheduled recordings during a non-Freesat scan or channel deletion etc. |
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Thank you for that. That looks perfect and it seems as though all should work the way I want!
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I might typically watch the BBC news on a weekday evening and then watch the German news at 8pm and then go back to ITV or something. Similarly I watch Sky News quite often and listen to LBC, Capital and Radio 2. Is that all relatively easy to do once the channels are all scanned etc.? |
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Thanks to you too for that. The images explain that quite well
I might typically watch the BBC news on a weekday evening and then watch the German news at 8pm and then go back to ITV or something. Similarly I watch Sky News quite often and listen to LBC, Capital and Radio 2. Is that all relatively easy to do once the channels are all scanned etc.? Enjoy
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