[vdr] Re: Can't use horizontal channels...

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Sam, 2002-06-15 um 23.28 schrieb Rene Bartsch:
> Am Fre, 2002-06-14 um 23.20 schrieb Matthias Weingart:
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 07:47:13PM +0200, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> > > Steffen Koch wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > If you can live without the analog channels und the low-band then this
> > > 
> > > ja, I repeat I don't have any analog device!
> > > 
> > > is there any digital channel on the low-band? how can I recognize a 
> > > low-band transponder? (I'm using hotbird, but I don't hink it's different)
> > 
> > Take a look in the channels.conf. All frequencies below 11600 MHz are low band
> 
> Low-band is from 10.700 GHz to 11.700 GHz and high-band is from 11.700
> GHz to 12.750 GHz.
> 
> If you don't need that channels, you can use a two cable setup. My
> suggestion is to use a quad-LNB and a 4/x- or 5/x-multiswitch on which
> you don't connect the low-band cables but only the high-band-cables.
> 
> In case you need the low-band, you can add the two cables later.
> 
> (I'm praying for a firm developing a solution where LNB and multiswitch
> are connected by a single fibre-glass wire, as it has enough bandwith)
> 
> But actually I'm also having the problem to have only three connectors
> on a multiswitch but having four cards.
> 
> I only see two solutions to get all digital channels:
> 
> 1.) A box being some on the market which puts only the digital FTA
> channels on one wire (so you don't need high/vertikal, high/horizontal,
> low/vertical or low/horizontal switching)
> 
> 2.) The 2nd-multiswitch-solution. But then you need devices, which
> select polarizations on the first multiswitch (e.g. by 13/18V)


The 'DisiCon LNB' from Technisat (http://technisat.com or
http://technisat.com) might be a solution, but I don't know if you'll
need special receivers or if you just have to update the channel-list
for the special frequencies ...

Rene