Invacom QPH-031

Vitruvius · #1 (**permalink**) 05-27-2008, 07:10 PM

I purchased the quad Invacom QPH-031 linear and circular LNB for the low noise. I am using a Mercury II receiver and need to confirm what type of setting to put it on... Is this a 'Universal LNB' or some other type with a limited frequency....?

Thanks

teched · #2 (**permalink**) 05-27-2008, 07:39 PM

I use LNB-10750 for linear and LNB-11250 for circular on mine.

rainman · #3 (**permalink**) 05-27-2008, 08:06 PM

teched is right it is a standard lnbf 10750 linear and 11250 for circular.

Vitruvius · #4 (**permalink**) 05-28-2008, 06:49 AM

thanks Teched and Rainman...

I am setting up a new dish and hope to get more birds with its new location. I only have experience with a universal LNB. Will this linear and circular LNB still get all the FTA channels?

rainman · #5 (**permalink**) 05-28-2008, 08:26 AM

it will get the one 11700 and up. below that freq you will need a universal thats why I got a invacom SNH-031 for the few Atlantic sats I can get from my location.

Vitruvius · #6 (**permalink**) 05-28-2008, 09:11 AM

Thanks Rainman... It seems that most all the stations I have now are above 11700, so I should be ok with this LNB. I got it because I thought I could attach a second tv to it. I also thought that the DSS would give me more channels, but it seems that is not for FTA, is that correct? Maybe I should have gone with the universal Invocom.

What Atlantic sats do you get?

Thanks

rainman · #7 (**permalink**) 05-28-2008, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Vitruvius

Thanks Rainman... It seems that most all the stations I have now are above 11700, so I should be ok with this LNB. I got it because I thought I could attach a second tv to it. I also thought that the DSS would give me more channels, but it seems that is not for FTA, is that correct? Maybe I should have gone with the universal Invocom.

What Atlantic sats do you get?

Thanks

I can get down to 43 degrees in the winter time when the leaves fall off.

no not to many FTA channels on the circular sats.

Vitruvius · #8 (**permalink**) 05-29-2008, 09:05 AM

Ok, I got my 36" dish with the Invocom Quad installed and most of the satellites are coming in great. It took me a couple of weekends to dig a trench and bury 3 coax and a 5 line 18 ga. power line to a new location on my property where I had planned a 180cm dish with 180H motor. Once it was installed for testing, a strong wind came through and snapped the motor. I never had any channels tuned for this tedious installation. That is why I had so many lines to bury and I am without C-band.

Anyway, I have about 170 feet of standard coax feeding my new 36" dish and all the channels come in clear and strong. Amazing. Before, I had a 31" dish mounted to my house with only about 40 feet of cable, so it wasn't ideal and intended to be temporary. This Invocom LNB seems to be clearer, but maybe it is the dish. It is something that I have 170 feet of cable. The moving of the motor even works with that distance.

The new location for the dish allows me to get more sky. I get 123deg now and there are loads of WB or MY stations. I am getting 72 to 123, but I can't get 45, or 58, which I did before (winter only) so I think my arc is a bit off.

I even put a 10 ft over the air tv antenna on my shed and connected with about 200 ft of cable run to my house tv and get pretty good reception. Now I can take the house tv antenna off the house. My house is only 36 feet long, so a 10 ft antenna would dwarf the house and the reason for putting it on the shed.

I will try connecting the DSS portion of the LNB to a switch with the linear LNB and see if any other channels come in. I know I have to do some toggling in my receiver and will surely get confused.

Thanks for your help Rainman and Teched.