| Post 4 made on Tuesday March 4, 2003 at 02:52 |
Ernie Bornn-Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
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Impaqt and others,
the LNB does not put out a 22 khz tone. That is why you can use either LNB for 101 or 119.
Instead, the receiver puts out a 22 kHz tone to tell the HD multiswitch to select a signal from the 119 or 110 satellite (which look like one LNB to the multiswitch anyway as they are combined via a splitter).
The 22 kHz tone or lack of it tells the multiswitch which LNBs to hook to, then the 13 or 18 volts tells it which polarity to send down to the receiver.
This means that, as explained in another thread, you can aim an LNB on a dish at 119 and receive signals from that satellite without a multiswitch. you won't get anything from 101, but the point is that the 22 kHz tone is not needed to receive those channels, just to get a multiswitch to connect you to them.
Ernie
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