sky and freesat from 1 dish?

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tvmad

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i am trying to run 2 receivers from 1 dish
single cable from my sky dish using a splitter to run 2 cables to sky box and humax freesat
will this work?
if not would appreciate any solution
thank you
 
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Welcome to the forum.

Install a quad LNb and run another cable. A splitter will not work as LNB will get conflicting commands from the both receivers.
 
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A cheap solution would be to fit a manual A-B LNB switch. You can get these from Εbay for about £5.
 
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I have a number of those and agree they are very effective - but only if you don't want to run both Receivers simultaneously.
 
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I had a sky box installed but did not like it as I could not record so they took away the box but left the dish. So I bought a Passion Plus box and used there dish. A year later I had a sky + box installed the engineer said, He would use my dish Ha Ha! I said, I still want my Passion box so he put another twin cable in and both work fine.
 
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