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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 4424" data-attributes="member: 174998">first off, you don't say where you are situated. For all we know you could be on the edge of the footprint of the beams you are struggling with and that would certainly explain marginal reception. The monoblock, just like all multi-LNB arrangements, causes for at least one of the satellites the signal to be picked up away from the primary focus of the dish. After all, the dish has only one optimal focal point and you need to squeeze two out of it. So this meas that the signal received will always be a bit weaker than if you had a single-LNB arrangement. Depending on how you have aligned your dish and mounted your monoblock, either you will be focussed on Astra, or focussed on Hotbird, or focussed on a position in between. A 1m dish and 0.7db LNB should not produce a signal that will overload your tuner. My advice: tune to the weakest of all the signals you have, then align the dish to optimise that signal.The LNB needs to sit at a very specific distance from the dish. If you are using an arm which came with the dish, then that should already be catered for. If you have cobnbled this together from different parts, you'll need to check the arm's length against the dish's focal length and modify the arm accordingly.DiSEqC v2.0 is not an official protocal yet I believe. But the simple 2-LNB monoblock will presumably be compatible with all versions of DiSEqC since the later versions only added support for steerable systems and switches for large numbers of LNBs. It doesn't really make sense to talk about the signal being picked up from one or other LNB while DiSEqC is &quot;off&quot;. DiSEqC is simply a command protocol. When the switch receives a certain command from the receiver it switches in one or other of the LNBs accordingly. 2old</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 4424, member: 174998"] first off, you don't say where you are situated. For all we know you could be on the edge of the footprint of the beams you are struggling with and that would certainly explain marginal reception. The monoblock, just like all multi-LNB arrangements, causes for at least one of the satellites the signal to be picked up away from the primary focus of the dish. After all, the dish has only one optimal focal point and you need to squeeze two out of it. So this meas that the signal received will always be a bit weaker than if you had a single-LNB arrangement. Depending on how you have aligned your dish and mounted your monoblock, either you will be focussed on Astra, or focussed on Hotbird, or focussed on a position in between. A 1m dish and 0.7db LNB should not produce a signal that will overload your tuner. My advice: tune to the weakest of all the signals you have, then align the dish to optimise that signal. The LNB needs to sit at a very specific distance from the dish. If you are using an arm which came with the dish, then that should already be catered for. If you have cobnbled this together from different parts, you'll need to check the arm's length against the dish's focal length and modify the arm accordingly. DiSEqC v2.0 is not an official protocal yet I believe. But the simple 2-LNB monoblock will presumably be compatible with all versions of DiSEqC since the later versions only added support for steerable systems and switches for large numbers of LNBs. It doesn't really make sense to talk about the signal being picked up from one or other LNB while DiSEqC is "off". DiSEqC is simply a command protocol. When the switch receives a certain command from the receiver it switches in one or other of the LNBs accordingly. 2old [/QUOTE]

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