Ping Bill

[alan_m]

But it probably doesn't collect the 7 day EPG and only gives now and next informtion.

[Tim Lamb]

Indeed!

Operator ignorance. Further study of the manual shows the box has an adjustable *standby* time. Currently set to 3 hours.

Coming to the Manhattan after Topfield and Hilux where the recorder runs until switched off by the operator, this was confusing!

The issue of aerial feed through is also resolved.

The lesson is to read and understand the manual!

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[Tim Lamb]

er. don't you then have to crawl to the other end to attach the cable to the fishing line?

In our case, there is an intervening wall previously slotted to take data cables etc. Rockwool is much kinder than glass fibre on lungs and exposed skin anyway.

[alan_m]

That's the traditional technology. There are now wideband unicable LNBs which can feed up to 32 tuners via a single cable from the LNB. To take full advantage of these possibly buy a box with FBC tuners - perhaps up to 16 tuners (with 4 inputs) in a single box. The single feed from the LNB can be split with cheap splitters to provide these box inputs.

Sky have their own propriety wideband LNB which requires two cables from the LNB feeding the 12(?) tuners in their sky Q boxes. Some Freesat branded boxes now support the Sky wideband LNB but I don't know how many tuners are in those boxes.

[Fredxx]

No

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For the avoidance of any doubt:

The LNB is a low noise amplifier and down converter. The Receiver will select polarisation and waveband, two on Astra. Usually by sending a tone to the LNB to select the waveband to be downcoverted and a voltage to select polarisation.

The STB receiver will downcovert again to demodulate each channel. They're not called MUXes but serve the same function where one carrier frequency will supply a number of channels.

You can get LNB with multiple outputs; where each can drive a STB.