Is Direct TV C or Ku?

[Ben]

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Just wondering what would happen if one were to hook the coax from a BUD (C
or Ku whatever it takes) to a Dish Network or Direct TV receiver. Would the
signal be over driven or would you just get a good strong signal, OR is it
not combatable at all?

~Ben

 

[Guest]

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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 04:48:08 GMT, "Ben" <none@none.moc> wrote:

>Just wondering what would happen if one were to hook the coax from a BUD (C
>or Ku whatever it takes) to a Dish Network or Direct TV receiver. Would the
>signal be over driven or would you just get a good strong signal, OR is it
>not combatable at all?
>
>~Ben
>

Technically, DirecTV/Dishnet are Ku, but in common parlance they are
DBS, which is a sub band of Ku.

You will get nothing connecting C-band to a DBS receiver, simply
because nothing on C-band broadcasts an Echostar or DirecTV compatible
signal. I don't know if they can account for the inverted IF spectrum
a C-band LNBF puts out. On FSS Ku, there might be some echostar
compatible stuff on IA5.

 

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Ben wrote:

> Just wondering what would happen if one were to hook the coax from a BUD (C
> or Ku whatever it takes) to a Dish Network or Direct TV receiver. Would the
> signal be over driven or would you just get a good strong signal, OR is it
> not combatable at all?
>
> ~Ben
>
>

Dish/DirecTV use Ku DBS, not Ku FSS (regular Ku). The DBS band sits right
above the FSS band. In addition, they use circular polarity, not linear.
In short, they need their own LNBs. You can get a BUD add on, like this:

http/www.skyvision.com/store/mi5034007.html

Dish uses Ku FSS/linear polarity on satellites at 105 and 121 west longitude.

Btw, substitute "polarization" above for "polarity".

 

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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:00:23 -0500, john wilson <jwilson9@erols.com>
wrote:

>Won't work. Different Ku band frequency range.
>

Its not that, exactly. The IF-the signal on the coax, is the same
frquency range. The problem, in practice, is the transponders are
different, and there is no "echostar" compatible DVB on C-band.

>Ben wrote:
>
>>Just wondering what would happen if one were to hook the coax from a BUD (C
>>or Ku whatever it takes) to a Dish Network or Direct TV receiver. Would the
>>signal be over driven or would you just get a good strong signal, OR is it
>>not combatable at all?
>>
>>~Ben
>>
>>
>>
>>