Gabsphere -
yep, great minds think alike.
I just wonder how I forgot the Eagle Aspen
last time this came up.
OnceWasLost -
Yea, I saw that minimum requirement for 210 pcs.
Well, if they were cheap enough, you and your 20 closest buddies could have 10 each, probably for less than the price of ordering one from Australia!
But regarding the bandstacked, you're right, no good way to integrate it with an old C-band receiver.
See below.
TruckRacer -
Your question got me thinking.
You could hook the E/A to the H side (18v) of a 2x4 multiswitch, and then you tell the receiver you only want Horiz transponders and let it blind scan.
That would get all the channels, both Vert and Horiz
Iceberg and others have discussed the basic concept - just not this way with the switch.
Then, if you were to use a 4x4 multiswitch instead, the 22khz would select either that C-band LNB, or whatever you hooked to the other two inputs...
Would be a bastard system, and I'd hate to recommend it to the average user.
It certainly doesn't belong in the Switches Simplified thread - it's
not simple!
But if you recall, Iceberg did something like this once, where he hooked the H input of a multiswitch to one LNB and the L input to another.
In his case, he had specific birds where that worked.
Still, his programming was... uhhh... imaginative, to say the least.
I'll let him sell you on the idea.
The other thing (not hardly cost effective!) that came to mind is something that Dish Network used to have to let Legacy receivers talk to bandstacked (DishPro) LNBs.
Think of it as as de-stacker. It was called a
DishPro Legacy Adapter.
You might need two to feed a multiswitch properly, but the result would be something you actually
could feed into a 4DTV receiver.
Problem is, I only
think it would work, and unless you just had two of them laying around, they're kinda spendy.
Skynyrd -
As mentioned above, there's no cheap solution unless SatAV gets restocked.
The Eagle Aspen is a good solution if you're open to new ideas.
But if you're trying to retrofit an old system, it may be an up-hill battle.
There is no
separate solution that's cheap. The
receiver needs to deal with it.
A Corotor is not particularly cheap, and only gives one polarity at a time, so it's not an appropriate alternative for this discussion.
Getting one for free is certainly attractive (and possible).
But then you are required to have a receiver that can control the skew servo.
And I'm 100% sure I don't want to go back to the 80's for that. -
edit: oh, you dirty guy!
Ya changed Corotor to Bullseye II
Okay, now you're talking! And ya better be sitting on a tall wallet, too!
