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From: albert@ucbvax.ARPA (Anthony Albert)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Satellite TV Receiver Query
Message-ID: <9454@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 18:18:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 18:18:18 1985
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In article <2608@mhuxd.UUCP> wolit@mhuxd.UUCP (wolitzky) writes:
>My mother-in-law would like to share her neighbor's satellite
>dish antenna, but doesn't want to be restricted to watching
>the same program as her neighbor.  Is it necessary to purchase another
>receiver (both of which would then be hooked up to the same LNA), or do these
>receivers tune a whole "bank" of channels, which are then selected using
>something low-cost, like a cable TV channel selector?  Assuming a cooperative
>neighbor, how inexpensively can I accomplish what she wants?  (She already
>knows that she's going to be limited to channels carried on the same satellite
>her neighbor is tuning, of course.)
>-- 
>Jan Wolitzky, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ; 201 582-2998; mhuxd!wolit
>(Affiliation given for identification purposes only)

My understanding of the situation is this:
The receiver corresponds to the cable converter. What you can get
is a block down converter/LNA which will enable more than one
receiver to be hooked up.

-- 
				Anthony Albert
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				albert@ucbvax.ARPA