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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Hotbird and Astra on a monoblock LNB finally working

It's been a long struggle to get the monoblock LNB to see both Astra
19.2 and Hotbird 13 E.

When I first bought the kit, it looked simple, point it to one, and it
will see the other.
After experimenting it was never showing me both at the same time.

I either pointed it at Hotbird or at Astra.
Just now it came to me through a forum somewhere, I felt I needed to
look for it again.
A friend told me to look for certain info about a cam and go to this forum.
When I entered the forum, couldn't see anything, registered and there
it was: how to see both Astra and Hotbird with a monoblock LNB.

Here's the stuff you need to be aware of.
Point it to Hotbird, the other part (when you're behind the dish, the
LNB on the lefthandside should be in the middle of the dish, the one
on the righthand side should be right, not in the bracket) will
automatically point more or less to Astra.

And here's the trick:

Go to your settings of your LNB, choose Univeral for the type of it.
Make sure you have Astra 19.2 and Hotbird in the list (well, Hotbird
should have worked if want this to work).
Go to DiSEqC Port when Hotbird is selected and assign it, in my case, Mini A.
Then select Astra 19.2 and assign it Mini B.

That's it, it worked.

My pointing must have been pretty good.

HTH (hope this helps)

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