I have a Invacom QPH-031 on the way (gotta love ebay) so I can do some audio off dish sats without having to hook my receiver into my E* setup and I have a couple diseq switches that came with receivers I bought on ebay (one is a DMSI, can't remember the other). Anyways, I am wondering if any diseq switch is better than the others or are they all pretty much the same?
Any switch better than others?
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I've got a few DMSI ones and they work really good. One has been out in the MN winters for 3 years now
I've had/have Pansat, Coolsat, and DMSI diseqc switches and so far, only one of the Pansat's has messed up. But, I attribute that to my impatience and making changes with the receiver power still on. So, I don't blame the switch, I blame myself.
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Well, my QPH-031 came today (turns out the ebayer was only 20 miles away so I went and picked it up). My good FTA luck even continued as the seller gave me a SNH-031 as I already paid shipping fees to him and he had no cash to refund me.
So, now I have a spare invacom lnb and a fortec lnb and 1 spare dish (hmm, what to do)
Anyways, Wow, has this thing(qph-031) got some heft to it. It really surprised me on the size too. Driving home I was kinda worried due to the couple reviews I saw from people saying it kinda weighed down the arm a smidge.
So I hooked it up tonight (0'd dish motor and reset it) I took out my DMSi switch to the dish and replaced my universal fortec lnb with the Invacom and hooked up the C and L feeds to the switch and then the switch to the motor.
Came back to the couch to test things out. This time took a bit more playing to get things how I wanted (this lnb seems less forgiving), but when I finally got it back to the way I had it, I noticed quality improvement immediately on almost every sat I can hit. Improvement ranged anywhere from 6 to 15 points increase.
I also did some scans of the sats that I can hit through a couple of my neighbors trees (AMC 3, 2, IA8) and the blind scans brought back much more (relative term) then my old LNB did. Signal was also improved a few points, but it started to rain so I can't say the rain didn't affect it somewhat.
Either way, I really like this LNB and the setup with the diseq switch makes my FTA that much more fun. Man, there is alot to learn, but all the fun I am having it setting this stuff up, I don't think I have really sat down to watch a full show yet.
So, now I have a spare invacom lnb and a fortec lnb and 1 spare dish (hmm, what to do)
Anyways, Wow, has this thing(qph-031) got some heft to it. It really surprised me on the size too. Driving home I was kinda worried due to the couple reviews I saw from people saying it kinda weighed down the arm a smidge.
So I hooked it up tonight (0'd dish motor and reset it) I took out my DMSi switch to the dish and replaced my universal fortec lnb with the Invacom and hooked up the C and L feeds to the switch and then the switch to the motor.
Came back to the couch to test things out. This time took a bit more playing to get things how I wanted (this lnb seems less forgiving), but when I finally got it back to the way I had it, I noticed quality improvement immediately on almost every sat I can hit. Improvement ranged anywhere from 6 to 15 points increase.
I also did some scans of the sats that I can hit through a couple of my neighbors trees (AMC 3, 2, IA8) and the blind scans brought back much more (relative term) then my old LNB did. Signal was also improved a few points, but it started to rain so I can't say the rain didn't affect it somewhat.
Either way, I really like this LNB and the setup with the diseq switch makes my FTA that much more fun. Man, there is alot to learn, but all the fun I am having it setting this stuff up, I don't think I have really sat down to watch a full show yet.
depends on the ird as well, dreambox is particularly fussy. it wont touch any pansat switch I gave it. it will run with a little tweaking of the dreambox on chieta switch's (my pci dvb will work with the chieta kinda, sometimes).
but nothing beats the spaun 411 I have on my dreambox now, allways flips ports, never misses. really nice, expensive though. $125cdn with duty and shipping
but nothing beats the spaun 411 I have on my dreambox now, allways flips ports, never misses. really nice, expensive though. $125cdn with duty and shipping
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