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Not always true - especially in this case!!!!! I don't want to say no to this fellow if I can help him without reducing our service and I don't want him to mess around and for me to fit his dual/quad LNB only to have to take it off a few days later when cloud cover leaves our signal too weak for a decent picture.ĭoes anyone here have enough experience to tell me whether the dual/quads are, generally, at least as good or better than the singles or, generally, not quite as good?Īs is so often the case, one or more people on this board have 'been there, done that', and sorted out the problems. Very quick and easy to do but how does the gain and noise figure of a quad or dual compare with a decent single LNB? These LNBs are the luck of the draw, some are better than others and the average are useless down here so it is all very marginal, unlike the UK where you have enough signal to boil a kettle! To use this we would have to replace my LNB by a new one. What I have found is dual and quad LNBs for sale. I've done some research online and it seems that nobody makes a bracket for a second LNB and in any case both could not be right at the focal point, so I don't know where he got that idea from? Has anyone heard of that arrangement and does it in any way compromise the signal on the original LNB? In principle I don't mind as long as our service is not reduced in any way and actually we are borderline with ITV dropping out in heavy cloud. My next door neighbour has asked me if he may put another LNB onto my dish, for him to use with his own Sky box. We are in a marina and live on our boat.Īt the moment, we are getting quite a good signal - we only get the Free to View programmes but can get Channel 5 which is one of the weakest signals down here. Being down in southern Spain the signal is very low (deliberate, Sky have to make it difficult to receive outside the UK). I presently have a 1.3m dish with single LNB pointed to the Astra chain, to receive Sky UK transmissions on the 'North Beam'.

Installation double lnb astra hotbird lnb