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<blockquote data-quote="zg3409" data-source="post: 787704" data-attributes="member: 378078">No, that is actually a problem. If you want to receive Saorsat and KU 9A you need TWO dishes. This is because there are no combined KA and KU LNBs available, and you can't mount two LNBs on the same dish in the same location. So if you want to pick up 9E KU and 9E KA you end up with two dishes. This is also referrenced in the tooway KA internet dish user manual. Not ideal. It's a pity they don't put all KA sats at different orbital positions to KU until a combined LNB is available, although I think the reason is some satellites broadcast both KA and KU. Hopefully a combined LNB will be available one day. It might be possible now to use an old two-way internet dish. Some of these have a reflector for 20Ghz, that allows a 10Ghz signal to pass through so it could be possibly work in theory, The gear on the arm is Ka band LNB and the BUC to transmit for two way on Internet. A 28E LNB would be offset to west by about 15cm. A larger dish would be needed with that amount of offset even for SkyAt least Saorsat is not on 28.2KA or 2 dishes would be essentiial, now an offset feed for 28.2 can be used. .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zg3409, post: 787704, member: 378078"] No, that is actually a problem. If you want to receive Saorsat and KU 9A you need TWO dishes. This is because there are no combined KA and KU LNBs available, and you can't mount two LNBs on the same dish in the same location. So if you want to pick up 9E KU and 9E KA you end up with two dishes. This is also referrenced in the tooway KA internet dish user manual. Not ideal. It's a pity they don't put all KA sats at different orbital positions to KU until a combined LNB is available, although I think the reason is some satellites broadcast both KA and KU. Hopefully a combined LNB will be available one day. It might be possible now to use an old two-way internet dish. Some of these have a reflector for 20Ghz, that allows a 10Ghz signal to pass through so it could be possibly work in theory, The gear on the arm is Ka band LNB and the BUC to transmit for two way on Internet. A 28E LNB would be offset to west by about 15cm. A larger dish would be needed with that amount of offset even for Sky At least Saorsat is not on 28.2KA or 2 dishes would be essentiial, now an offset feed for 28.2 can be used. . [/QUOTE]

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