Install 80cm fixed dish

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I have just ordered this dish to hopefully pick up three sats, 13, 19.2 and 28.2, I'm competent at fitting sky dishes but thats it. I have all required tools, ladder and proper meter.

Opticum Satellite Antenna Aluminium: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

How do i go about running two receivers of this dish, would also like to maintain two freesat tvs...

My current sky dish has 8 feeds but I want to bin that dish, don't want two dishes mounted...

Im thinking i need three lnbs but i can only find this double??

Opticum Monoblock Quad LNB - Lmqp 04H Gold-Plated: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
 
I have just ordered this dish to hopefully pick up three sats, 13, 19.2 and 28.2, I'm competent at fitting sky dishes but thats it. I have all required tools, ladder and proper meter.

Opticum Satellite Antenna Aluminium: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

How do i go about running two receivers of this dish, would also like to maintain two freesat tvs...

My current sky dish has 8 feeds but I want to bin that dish, don't want two dishes mounted...

Im thinking i need three lnbs but i can only find this double??

Opticum Monoblock Quad LNB - Lmqp 04H Gold-Plated: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

Id run individual LNB's with a switch obviously youd need a lnb bracket for this propose but im not familiar with your dish make.
 
I need 3 lnbs and a diseq switch then??
 
I need 3 lnbs and a diseq switch then??

You could run a monoblock for 13/19 and a single LNB for 28 but although not impossible running the switch in the monoblock with another switch to control that and the 28 lnb can be tricky. 3 separate LNBs also allows for better fine tuning.
 
So these LNB's are just standard and the bracket is homemade. I thought everything would be premade.

But I presume i still need to buy three opticum LNB's?
 
So these LNB's are just standard and the bracket is homemade. I thought everything would be premade.

But I presume i still need to buy three opticum LNB's?

Bracket can be fabricated but they are also available to purchase from most sat shop some are dish specific.

You need 3 single output lnbs and a switch . Brand choice is your own.
 
So only 3 cables need to be outside?

How does that work in regard to twin tuner boxes?

Do all my sat cables running to attic just go into a diseqc switch and 3 cables from dish to diseqc. Or is it more complicated than that?
 
So only 3 cables need to be outside?

How does that work in regard to twin tuner boxes?

Do all my sat cables running to attic just go into a diseqc switch and 3 cables from dish to diseqc. Or is it more complicated than that?

One cable from house into the switch and one cable from each lnb into the switch only one cable into the house.

For a twin tuner box you need dual lnbs so six cables into switch one cable into house.
 
One cable from house into the switch and one cable from each lnb into the switch only one cable into the house.

Per box /receiver

For a twin tuner box you need dual lnbs so six cables into switch one cable into house.

That would be two cables into the house from a six in two out switch?
 
So twin lnb for 13 sat feeding twin tuner box. Twin lnb for 19 sat feeding twin tuner box. And quad lnb for 28.2e feeding a sky HD box and two freesat TVs.

so how will I wire this through the switch..?
 
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