We have free to air Sat King satellite TV as with your foxtel you just need a clear line of sight to the satellite as you already have your dish you will only need to buy the box there are no charges at all. You just need to renew your subscription every 6 months on line

JayDee wrote:

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We have taken on Stan, netflexn and Utube etc for our home viewing.

Can  and how do we  access these channels when on the road???

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Any video service you receive via your NBN internet connection can be accessed via wireless broadband.

For Telstra services see Post paid wireless broadband  - or - Prepaid wireless broadband. The rates are near the bottom of each page. You will be paying a lot more for internet connection on the move compared with home internet.

Satellite TV uses 2 antennas, 2 amplifiers, 2 down-mixers, 2 more amplifiers and a 2 output multiswitch.  All of these are in the little plastic pickup found at the focal point of a dish.

For Horizontal/Vertical signals (as used in Australia) a decoder box sends 12V along an antenna cable to have the multiswitch select and return the output from the default antenna; it sends 18V to select the other antenna's output.

For Left Polarization/Right Polarization signals (as used in USA) a decoder box sends just 12V along an antenna cable to have the multiswitch select and return the output from the default antenna; it modulates the 12V into a low frequency buzz to select the other antenna's output.

A 4 outlet dish just has more multiswitch connections.  (Except for some specialty systems that are not commonly used in Australia.)

In multi-decoder setups it is common to run just 2 cables from the dish to a central point where a 2, 4, 8 or 16 output multiswitch supplies each decoder with the signals it requests.  (External Multiswitches amplify each output signal by ~1/3 to handle ~100m of cable.)

Hope this makes some sense of the '2 cables'

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