So, what exactly is the difference between a motorised and multi-sat system?
M’mmm, kinda wish you hadn’t asked me that! We’re about to go ‘jargonised’, so I hope you can keep up with this! If you go for a motorised dish, you only need one LNB head which has the frequency span to cover all the frequencies used on ‘your’ satellites.From Shetland on a 88cm dish you can generally pick-up strong signals from 35 satellites with over 5,000 stations spanning from 53° East to 53° West. The motor and LNB attached to the dish is fed by just one coax cable and is governed by the receiver inside, so that when you choose a channel on your remote control in your living room the dish automatically moves to the correct position in the sky. Thus, the receiver ‘talks’ to the motor. Motors are ‘DiSEqC’ standard and are generally set to USALS (see Glossary below for meaning). Motorised dishes are far more complex to install, so you would certainly want a professional to set it up (that’s what we do!). If you go for a fixed-dish multi-head (sat) system, you also have to consider th
