Quote:
Originally Posted by Debbi
I have a Fortec Star receiver with a Ku-band motorized dish and a C-band stationary dish. I would like to connect both dishes to my receiver and still be able to move the motorized dish.
Will a 22kHz Eagle Aspen Switch work in this application? If I understand the switch correctly, there are two inputs. The C-band dish would go into the 22kHz input and the Ku-band dish would plug into the 13/18 port. Am I on the right track? Thanks for any assistance. |
Whether this switch will work, or partially work, will depend on what ku-band lnbf or lnb you are using. If you are using a standard LNB or LNBF , there shouldn't be a problem, and it doesn't matter what port you put the 2 dishes on. {there is no 13/18 port. There is a 22khz port and a NO-22khz port, the latter of which isn't labeled. The 13/18 just refers to the whole switch, not that port.} Just set your receiver to 22khz on for the dish on the 22khz port, and set the receiver to 22khz off for the dish on the other port that isn't labeled.
However, if your ku lnbf is a universal lnbf, it uses 22khz to switch between the upper and lower band, so if you try using it with a 22khz switch, it will at least not be able to access either upper or lower band on the lnbf (depending on which port you put it on), or it might not even work at all. If you have a universal lnbf, you'd be better off using a
DiseqC switch, or switch to a standard lnbf. It depends on whether you need the low band on the universal lnbf.