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    Default got a dish...now what?

    just got hold of a 1.2m dish with a motor and a Grundig AUN25 LNB.

    Is this any good?

    I am planning on getting a Humax 5400 (patched) box if they are still available. Will I need a separate controller for the motor or will the Humax control it?

    Also, if the patched Humax is the dogs b*ll*cks, then why do people buy other boxes?

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    The dish motor and LNB sound good, what sort of motor is it? If it has provision for 3 or 4 wires then the Humax I don't think will operate it and you will need a receiver with a conventional positioner control, or a DiseqC to 4 wire converter. If it has in and out F connections then it is DiseqC and the Humax will operate it.

    The reason why the Humax is so popular is that when patched, it can receive many encryptions and is fairly reliable, an excellent startup receiver. But there are many other equally good, if not better receivers out there, the Hyundai HSS1000 is popular, as is the Samsung, Echostar, Force, Manhattan, etc, etc.

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    sorry guys, got this thread running in here and in the sat. hardware section... oops.

    can a mod move this to the other thread or is it ok?

    @ neverallocat, couldn't find any markings on the motor but it has (at least, I think) 4 wires coming from it.

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