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<blockquote data-quote="csucu" data-source="post: 525374" data-attributes="member: 292687">Hi guys, I would really appreciate some help with the following issue:I have a cable in my flat coming down from the centralized Satellite system on the building's roof, containing both Hotbird and Nilesat signals. It works perfectly fine with my one receiver.I would like to be able to connect/split this for another receiver to work in parallel. I bought a two way splitter combiner from Radioshack. It only works partially. It seems to me that if I select a Hotbird channel for example on the first receiver I can not in parallel select a Nilesat channel on the second one, despite selecting the right Diseqc in each receiver. Also, there seems to be a conflict when I select a Vertical polarization channel on one rcvr and a Horizontal one on the other.Could you kindly help with some advice?So I would like to have from one cable, two separate receivers, both accessing both satellites.Currently I am using the extra OUT of the first to connect it to the IN of the second, but again I am limited by the fact that if the first rcvr is tuned for a Hotbird channel I can only watch Hotbird channels on the second.Is this a possible setup? I don't have access to the roof of the bldg but I presume there is a diseqc switch up there combining the signals from two dishes, one from Hotbird and another from Nilesat.many thanks in advance</blockquote>

[QUOTE="csucu, post: 525374, member: 292687"] Hi guys, I would really appreciate some help with the following issue: I have a cable in my flat coming down from the centralized Satellite system on the building's roof, containing both Hotbird and Nilesat signals. It works perfectly fine with my one receiver. I would like to be able to connect/split this for another receiver to work in parallel. I bought a two way splitter combiner from Radioshack. It only works partially. It seems to me that if I select a Hotbird channel for example on the first receiver I can not in parallel select a Nilesat channel on the second one, despite selecting the right Diseqc in each receiver. Also, there seems to be a conflict when I select a Vertical polarization channel on one rcvr and a Horizontal one on the other. Could you kindly help with some advice? So I would like to have from one cable, two separate receivers, both accessing both satellites. Currently I am using the extra OUT of the first to connect it to the IN of the second, but again I am limited by the fact that if the first rcvr is tuned for a Hotbird channel I can only watch Hotbird channels on the second. Is this a possible setup? I don't have access to the roof of the bldg but I presume there is a diseqc switch up there combining the signals from two dishes, one from Hotbird and another from Nilesat. many thanks in advance [/QUOTE]

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