Hi
Extrend ET5000 and communal dish setup with three sats 7w, 19e & 13e, currently based in Morocco.
Ever since we moved here the sat set up has been a bit strange.
At 1st I used a Spiderbox and an Abu Dhabi Humax reciever (Linked to the Spiders loopthru) and whilst the Spiderbox missed a few chanels on the whole it picked up most chanels. The Humax was fine but limited to just using its own paired card ADMC Sports.
Anyway, after about 4 months the Spiderbox lost the upper end of the frquency range on 13e & 19e and those chanells went.
As the Humax still recieved signals on the transponders I assumed the Spiderbox was faulty and swopped it for an ET5000 and those chanels returned
Anyway, after a couple of months of working well those chanels are again lost and I've lost almost everything on Astra 19e.
7w Nilesat is also now acting strange on the Humax.
If I connect the Humax directly ie not using the ET5's loopthru I can recieve the MBC HD chanels but not the AD Sports chanells, but if I loop the Humax though the ET5000 I can get the AD Sports but not the MBC HD chanels! Very odd!
Anyway, I suspect that the LNB's on 7w & 19e are faulty.
I've also read that a communal sytem may use a diseqc switch for each apartment and that these can be prone to failing.
I havent seen the distribution set up so I dont know what they are using.
I'm going to ask the Sat guy to check the LNB's but can anyone advise if the diseqc switch can cause these symptoms?
Thanks