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Humax connection with Sky dish

Steve160656 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:41:18 GMT

My Humax box is not receiving signals from my Sky Dish which has a wide band LNB do I need to change the dish ??

Re: Humax connection with Sky dish

Mark39 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:54:47 GMT

Is your Humax a 4k or HD box? Some wide-band LNBs have fixed outputs, typically 2 UHD and 4 HD, so your Humax would need to be connected to the right pair.

Re: Humax connection with Sky dish

BenJoBanjo — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:55:31 GMT

@Steve160656 wrote:
My Humax box is not receiving signals from my Sky Dish which has a wide band LNB do I need to change the dish ??

If you have switched from Sky Q to Freesat using a Humax box then you'll need to change the wideband LNB on the dish to a standard narrowband LNB, or upgrade your Humax box to a newer Arris Freesat 4K box which is compatible with the Sky Q wideband LNB.

Re: Humax connection with Sky dish

Steve160656 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:15:57 GMT

Its a HDR1100S so just HD ... The LNB is a wideband with 2 cables

Re: Humax connection with Sky dish

Steve160656 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:18:12 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for that , what I have read suggests I need a wideband LNB , which is what is on the dish anyway.

Guess changing to a narrowband LNB would be the easier option , cheers

Re: Humax connection with Sky dish

nigea99 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:36:30 GMT

@Steve160656 wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for that , what I have read suggests I need a wideband LNB , which is what is on the dish anyway.

Guess changing to a narrowband LNB would be the easier option , cheers

hi @Steve160656

You may have already found this out but the older LNBs used by your box and many other receivers are known as Universal LNBs.

BTW Technically they send approx 1/4 of the signal at any one time depending on the voltage & the presence or not of a 22KHz signal to provide Hi/low Bands & H/V polarisation (The wideband LNBs as per their name send both the High & Low Bands in one 'wide' band and use 2 cables - one for each polarisation)