Hi

I have an old home with one RG 6 wire to a standard sat box. House is a nightmare for extra wires.

Question is, if I get IQ2, get a dual LNB and run the two wires into a multiswitch with a single wire running down to the IQ2 will I be able to watch every channel. I know I wont be able to watch and record, but question is will I be able to WATCH every chnnel?

Cheers

Yep! you should get every channel! i was running it with only one cable for ages and everything was good except for the record feature. Could still rewind etc etc.

However why would you run into a multi-switch? are you running it to more then one tele?? Just curious. I guess depending on what the switch does will also depend on weather you get all the channels!

Multiswitch would allow a standard STB to tune either V or H channels.

If you run a splitter from the wall socket then 2 fly leads to tuner 1 and 2 (like they do in Foxtel Lite) and put the PP on tuner 1 it should work fine. But you wont be able to record V and H polirised channels at the same time. or watch then whilst recording a H channel.

V channels have most +2s and FTAs.

Thanks guys

Yes have tried straight into tuner one and no FTA and most + channels dont work.

Then alo splitter with power pass to tuner one, still the same. Even tried one two cables from LNB to multiswith then one cable to tuner one still the same.

It seems you cannot get all the channels without two cables to tuner one and two. It just doesn't make sense. I'd love to know the technical reason. Is the dual LNB one nipple vertical and the other horizontal?

Bit of LNB theory for you, your probably all over this though. (and others if they want it!)



The LNB shown above has one wire going into the waveguide to pick up vertical polarisation. If the input waveguide is circular is can support two polarisations and it can be arranged for there to be two input probes at right angles, thus allowing two alternative polarisations to be selected (vertical or horizontal), either one or the other. Dual polarisation LNBs may commonly be switched remotely using two alternative DC supply voltages. e.g. 13 volts makes it receive vertical polarisation and 19 volts make it receive horizontal polarisation.