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Re: Sky+ and terrestrial on 2 cables? {Scanned for Viruses}



Could this be used to allow Sky+ to function with just one incoming
cable (i.e. two feeds coming from the LNB, through this box, and only
one cable coming into the house?) - also does anyone know of a UK
distributor?


- Ross

Ross McKillop
On 2 Dec 2003, at 11:57, Stephen Jones wrote:

> Keith
>
> I just found out about a box called the destacker/stacker which allows
> you put 2 sat IF feeds down the one cable and then split them apart
> again -
>
> http://www.johansson.be/htmen/stackerdestacker.php?ref=9633KIT%20UK
>
> http://www.cable-satellite.com/product_awards/award_news.htm
>
> Has anyone heard of this unit and would like to comment?
>
> SJ
>
>
> You are correct, the Quattro/Switch combination isnt NEEDED until you
> want
> more than 4 receivers. On my analogue systems, I could have used a
> couple of
> TWIN output LNB's instead of Duals and a switch as each of the two
> receivers
> I had at the time has two LNB inputs but that would have meant two
> cables to
> each receivers instead of the one that I already had. I'm glad I took
> the
> dual/switch route as I later got another couple of single input
> receivers
> and was able to use them for free to air Astra/Eutelsat as well. As an
> added
> bonus the spare LNB input on my main receiver was used for a homemade
> motorised dish that I used to plonk onto a scaffold pole fixed in the
> front
> garden. When not in use as a satellite mount I had a bird table that
> used to
> fit on the top of the pole.
>
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