Been a while since I've posted here (still haven't set-up a system yet, either, more on that in a bit).
I'm looking at setting up 1 (possibly 2, which would let me grab the whole sky, almost) T-90s and in an effort to get 2 deg separation I was thinking about going with single LNBs for some birds. Mainly, the ones that are predominantly feeds, i.e. I'm the only one that's going to watch them, no one else in the family will.
If I set up 2 T-90s, I can do 80 deg of sky, but that will require me to grab birds that are 2 deg apart on the same dish. I've read through Iceberg's thread on his experience with the T-90 and anything else I can find on it. In that thread there was a nice, small LNB, but it was a single. Since I'm looking at over 16 birds, being able to use single LNBs for some of them will save a lot of work. The only problem, that I could see, is that at some point I will have up to 6 receivers (1 PC, 1 office, 1 MBR, 1 family room, possibly my daughters' rooms later on). The traditional answer is, "if you have more than one receiver, you need a dual."
Well... What if we really aren't going to have anyone trying to watch some of those birds at the same time, let alone at the same time on different TPs/polarizations? Will a single be good?
If so, does that make a difference when it comes to switches? I've seen a couple of layouts that will allow 16-32 (and one had 64) birds (or 8/16/32 dual LNBs), will they still work with single LNBs? Not to mention that I'm looking for a switch that will allow the terrestrial antenna to piggyback on the same wires.
Its quite an ambitious project, I know, but if I'm going to do it, I'm going to go all the way on the first shot.
I'm looking at setting up 1 (possibly 2, which would let me grab the whole sky, almost) T-90s and in an effort to get 2 deg separation I was thinking about going with single LNBs for some birds. Mainly, the ones that are predominantly feeds, i.e. I'm the only one that's going to watch them, no one else in the family will.
If I set up 2 T-90s, I can do 80 deg of sky, but that will require me to grab birds that are 2 deg apart on the same dish. I've read through Iceberg's thread on his experience with the T-90 and anything else I can find on it. In that thread there was a nice, small LNB, but it was a single. Since I'm looking at over 16 birds, being able to use single LNBs for some of them will save a lot of work. The only problem, that I could see, is that at some point I will have up to 6 receivers (1 PC, 1 office, 1 MBR, 1 family room, possibly my daughters' rooms later on). The traditional answer is, "if you have more than one receiver, you need a dual."
Well... What if we really aren't going to have anyone trying to watch some of those birds at the same time, let alone at the same time on different TPs/polarizations? Will a single be good?
If so, does that make a difference when it comes to switches? I've seen a couple of layouts that will allow 16-32 (and one had 64) birds (or 8/16/32 dual LNBs), will they still work with single LNBs? Not to mention that I'm looking for a switch that will allow the terrestrial antenna to piggyback on the same wires.
Its quite an ambitious project, I know, but if I'm going to do it, I'm going to go all the way on the first shot.