i have a quad lnb (universal) to fit on my sky dish. do i take the whole single one off including the bracket which slides into the arm and replace it with the new one and drill a hole in the arm so i can get a screw through it to hold it in place?

any help appreciated

 

Mine simply used the same bracket on the existing LNB

Then used the signal strength reading in the "installation" section of my digibox

 

This may sound like a silly question but......... why on earth would you change the LNB on a Sky dish? The system doesn't require anything more than a basic reciever and is only licenced to transmit a one-way signal.

What advantage will you see by changing it?
(genuinely interested btw incase I come across sarcy). I actually used to work for Hughes Network Systems who designed and produced the Sky Satelitte system - and subsequently I now have lots of useless knowledge on Satelittes and LNB's.

 

One dish and 1 lnb = 1 channel can be watched at any time

Quad lnb = upto 4 digiboxes off 1 dish

All 4 can watch 4 different channels at the same time

Sky do "legit" clone card at Ł10.00 per month

Cloned against the package you subscribe to

http://existing.sky.com/multiroom.asp

 

Ahhhhhh I see, makes sense actually, I did wonder when they started advertising about the different channels in different rooms package, just how they would achieve that (was launched after I left Hughes).
Now I know, ta

 

You may be able to extract the original LNB out of it's housing and replace it with the quad, depending on which quad you got, otherwise, what you suggest sounds about right, try and get a few measurements like the distance from the top of the dish to the centre of the lnb (and again at the bottom of the dish), just to make sure you align the quad properly

Clare, dual lnb required for sky+, quad required for sky+ + multiroom

 

No probs Clare

 

Too late

 

its a universal one. did yours look like this..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wistron-Quad-L...QQcmdZViewItem

 

Had mine ages ago not sure on make

It is fitted to a Sky Mini Dish



Not bad for a mobile cam pic at 8x magnification - lol lol

 

yeah mine is a mini-dish