Robert H wrote:
> Worth pointing out you need a satellite dish that can support multiple tuners as unlike terrestrial you cant just split the signal.
Jack Bamford wrote:
> Not true. I have 4 Tuners in my QuadHD Card all 4 tuners are getting signal from one aerial it also depends on the Signal in your location Ridge hill mask is 17 miles from me so Signal is great hence why it works so well with my QuadHD.
Jack, if you're replying to Robert's posting, I think you're at cross purposes. Robert was saying that for satellite you need a dish with as many LNBs as you have tuners, because one can't just split the signal. But you are referring to Ridge Hill mast, which is a terrestrial mast. The restrictions for terrestrial are very different from those for satellite: youcan split the signal from a terrestrial aerial because one aerial receives all the signals, whereas with satellite the tuning and selection of polarisation is done at the dish before the down cable.
It's a shame that satellite isn't designed the same way that terrestrial is, so that all the signals, irrespective of frequency and polarisation, are fed from the dish down the same cable to be decoded by different tuners after the signal has been split.
Since the house I'll be buying has two satellite cables to two inputs on the vendor's Sky box, I presume there are two LNBs at the dish so I'll be able to feed two 461 decoders as Robert is doing.