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<blockquote data-quote="UKenGB" data-source="post: 1078193" data-attributes="member: 414315">Having recently dropped Sky, I am left with a Sky Q dish and hybrid/Smart LNB with the 2 Sky outputs going nowhere (no more Q box) and the other 4 outlets still feeding other devices (like a FreeSat TV). The latter works fine, but I'm wondering if there's anything I can do with the Q outputs.I understand that one is H and the other V, but is there any way to 'combine' these to provide a Unicable/dSCR source to suitable devices? Or are their frequencies shifted in a way that makes them incompatible with Unicable/dSCR?As I understand it, the Q method uses some frequencies that overlap the TV bands and hence cannot be combined with them. Can the normal Unicable signal be multiplexed with TV, radio etc or does that also use frequencies that overlap TV?Specifically, I want to provide full satellite feed to a multi-tuner Sat card in a PC. This card has 4 inputs that can be normal single LNB (narrowband?) feeds, or 4 outputs from a Quattro, or it can instead work from a single Unicable feed. For simplicity, I wondered if I could utilise those spare Q feeds as either a single Unicable feed to the PC card, or indeed whether they could be split into the equivalent of a Quattro LNB's outputs?A further complication is that as far as I have been able to determine, there are 2 types of this Sky Q hybrid LNB. One of which has 2 outputs for Q and only Q, but the other in fact has 6 identical outputs and works out what to supply to the connecting equipment. I have no idea which I have.So, any advice on the above would be much appreciated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UKenGB, post: 1078193, member: 414315"] Having recently dropped Sky, I am left with a Sky Q dish and hybrid/Smart LNB with the 2 Sky outputs going nowhere (no more Q box) and the other 4 outlets still feeding other devices (like a FreeSat TV). The latter works fine, but I'm wondering if there's anything I can do with the Q outputs. I understand that one is H and the other V, but is there any way to 'combine' these to provide a Unicable/dSCR source to suitable devices? Or are their frequencies shifted in a way that makes them incompatible with Unicable/dSCR? As I understand it, the Q method uses some frequencies that overlap the TV bands and hence cannot be combined with them. Can the normal Unicable signal be multiplexed with TV, radio etc or does that also use frequencies that overlap TV? Specifically, I want to provide full satellite feed to a multi-tuner Sat card in a PC. This card has 4 inputs that can be normal single LNB (narrowband?) feeds, or 4 outputs from a Quattro, or it can instead work from a single Unicable feed. For simplicity, I wondered if I could utilise those spare Q feeds as either a single Unicable feed to the PC card, or indeed whether they could be split into the equivalent of a Quattro LNB's outputs? A further complication is that as far as I have been able to determine, there are 2 types of this Sky Q hybrid LNB. One of which has 2 outputs for Q and only Q, but the other in fact has 6 identical outputs and works out what to supply to the connecting equipment. I have no idea which I have. So, any advice on the above would be much appreciated. [/QUOTE]

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