I have a Dish network 500 Dish Pro "PLUS" on my house running to a dual tuner receiver: The dish looks like this:
I recently got a Dish network 500 Dish "Pro". It's the previous model to the DP Plus and I have a single tuner receiver that came with it. I would like to use this dish/receiver in the trailer under my account. I know how to activate it but I need to figure out how to get it set up first.
It looks like this:
I have one cable coming from the dish Pro Plus into the house. On the older Dish Pro there are two cables coming out of the end of the mount. One goes into the 110° and the other into the 119°. My main question is do I need a switch for this? something like this:
If so, does it freaking matter what switch i get? I see these all over ebay and they all look the same but range from $4 to $30!! I get a different answer from every search I do on the internet. I see things that say if you hook up wrong you can blow it out, and that makes me nervous.
What's the difference between the two. I looks like that extra LNB may just be to run in another sat if you choose to do so?
On Edit-
I see alot about using an SW21 (as seen above) and also alot of places that say to use an SW21X (as seen below).
And now i'm also seeing some websites that have images that make it look like you don't need a switch at all and can run each coax to a different receiver. Am I correct in thinking that the two coax cables carry a different signal from a different sat and need to be combined at some point?
I'm hoping that someone has this setup and can tell me how theirs is connected!!
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edited 09/04/09 08:36am by luck would have it *
Just an RG-6 type coax cable, well, two of them (They make a double cable)
One goes from one port on the TWIN lnb, to one receiver LNB in
The other goes from the other LNB port to the OTHER LNB in on the dual receiver
And that's all there is to it.. No switch, no special anything. Just two lengths of coax
THe dish receiver will figure it out when you do the CHECK SWITCH test and properly configure itself
If, next time you set up, you accidently swap the cables
Then Check Switch will once again figure it out and properly configure the receiver
That receiver has just about the best antenna pointing and configuration software there is. All Dish receivers do. WAY better than the software in a DirecTV receiver.
That said,, Direc's is not bad, Just not as good.
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
Kenwood TS-2000 housed in a 2005 Damon Intruder 377
and yes, that extra post is marked EXT LNB and is to run a lead in from another dish pointed off at 62 or where ever in space that odd ball is if needed.
bumpy
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