I have an unused 3-LNB DirecTV satellite dish. Our nearest neighbor (about 1 1/2 miles away), who already has Dish Network in his house, wants to buy an additional Dish Network receiver and install it in his office, which is about 30 yards away from the main house. It will not be possible to run a cable from the house to his office.
Can he utilize my DirecTV 3-LNB dish at his office location? A great deal of his television watching is local channels...
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You would have to change the LNB, which is the most expensive part of the dish. Ebay has cheap sat dish for sale.. If it's local have him get an amplified digital antenna...
The earlier dishes were interchangeable. The HD digital ones are NOT. They are designed to receive a specific combination/patterns/position of satellites and are difficult enough to aim when they are for the correct pattern, much less one they are not designed for.
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DirecTV has two different 3LNB dishes, one of them (The older one) might work on Dish Standard (I do not know) Dish receivers are very smart and can adapt to a wide range of antennas. DirecTV's original HD dish lookied to 110 and 119 (The two dish birds) so it MIGHT work......
However 30 yards from house to office, 90 feet, should not be a problem unless the antenna is a long, long ways from the house.
If he has just one receiver in the house, run the office cable to the other port on the Dish antenna. (If he has dual DVR's you are gonna need a switch to add to the mix.. Get it at a Dish Network store)
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It can be easily gleaned from this thread that the old dish may or may not work.. Due to the lack of details on the actual dish it would be hard to give a definitive answer.
Various Sat dishes have various LNB's... If your local channels are on the sat 101 and you have an LNB for 110 you're out of luck. Now what if you have one for sat 61? . Directv has SAT's at 99,101,103, 110 and 119, Dish primarily using 61.5, 110, 119 and 129.
There are so many what ifs here it would be impossible to give a complete and correct answer. The easy thing to do would be to purchase the correct dish off ebay for 40-50 bucks, then trying to piece something together and trying to get it to work. Obviously they don't have that much knowledge on setting up a dish.
Rather then put up a new dish and buy a new receiver you could simply use a video sender and be done with it.
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