All posts by Cheryl
Below are all of Cheryl's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Well well, over here a double LNB is 55 euros (£50) and a quad = 72 !!!!!! I've run off back home to order one online....!
I'm not sure the LNB will be easy to remove from the arm which joins the bracket.. I don't want to break it.... will keep you updated...
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Yiippee. Zinwell Quad LNB arrived - cable in hand, f connectors ready to be fixed... no idea how to get the old LNB off (Sky dish mark minus 5)!! Actually can't remember how it all fitted together 10 years ago (and that was 2nd hand)and can't find anything on youtube... and now its welded together with time, Wind and weather.
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If I could swear on here I would....
The 1st cable already goes through a hole in the wall at a very tricky place and one my drill to make a 2nd hole for 2nd cable had difficulty getting to.... so close and then a slight deviation of brick later and the 1st cable has been touched... about a 2 mm nick to the outside layer.....
I think I'm going to cry....(or hit someone).
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So question :
it's the bit of cable that is inside the wall, not outside...
if I wrap it in insulating tape like a mummy, is it safe to use or do I have to replace the whole cable? (not a preferred option as it's 31m of cable)....
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Thanks so much guys - yes its an eggshaped elliptical dish. I'll try prodding it tmw when the sun's out (hah!)
Yes, signal is still getting through - I've just bought a new 50m roll of cable, so I had the 30m in one length as I wanted to avoid the join option (I had 20m left over from the 1st installation!!)
Hey ho - life is a learning curve ...
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New LNB installed (easy peasey to wiggle arm out once the old plastic pin had a screwdriver stuck up its ***) - stuck the new quad on the end - couldn't have been simpler !
2nd cable in.
Half of it cable-tied piggybacking the 1st cable (a nice two tone effect, the 1st one having been weathered over the past 10 years!)
And both lines in are working !!
Yee-ha
"Simples" !!
Thanks so much again guys - I probably could have got there in the end on my own after much trial and error, but with you on my side I knew I was doing the right stuff !
(I still have to work out how to use the Hummie to its potential. Watching, recording and rewatching is as far as I've got !!)
Until the next time....
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Sunday 2 June 2013 10:08PM
Thanks Mike, didn't know that existed and have just increased it to 8, the max.
Quite honestly, I can hear just a tiddly bit of difference, nothing exceptional, but now I know it's "normal" then I'll just turn up.
Surprising that the HUMAX volume is up to bursting point though...
Thanks again