What is the cheapest alternative to get Voom

[TJ22]

I current have a Dish 500. I want to add voom but I dont want to pay $99.95 to have them install the extra dish. So what is a cheap alternative to get voom? I see the dish 1000 will do it but that is not cheap. What cheapo dish can I add to point at 61.5?

Thanks.

[jergenf]

You asked a question and answered it at the same time. If you can aquire an 18 dish with the same series LNB and switch as your dish500 then you may be able to install it yourself for less.

[TJ22]

I guess I should have been morer specific. I need to know what hardware I need ie what model dish satellite. What model(s) will work for the second dish? What is the cheapest?

[jergenf]

I guess I should have been morer specific. I need to know what hardware I need ie what model dish satellite. What model(s) will work for the second dish? What is the cheapest?

If your dish500 has a dishpro series LNB then you need an 18 inch dish300 with a single dual LNB (dishpro) and one or two (depending if you have dual tuners or receivers) DP21 switches. If legacy series then legacy LNB and 1 or 2 SW21 (or one SW42) switch. Dishpro have the DP logo on the LNB. The switch is mounted on or near the dish500 so that the output goes to the coax to your house. The inputs come from the dish500 and dish300.
The dish may be pointed to 61.5 or 129 satellite. Shop around for prices and compare findings to the $99 install price to determine the savings.

[TJ22]

Thanks so much, I will look into it.

[CivicOnBoostEK]

ebay is your friend in an instance like this. I got a dish 300 for about 30 bucks, pole mount from lowes for 6 bucks, and then youre set if you have some extra rg-6 laying around.

[BobaBird]

Read the article
Adding 61.5

. Also works for 129°.

[TJ22]

Ok here is my setup:

Dish 500 DP: 3 coaxes: "1", "2" & "LNB IN"

The is only 1 cable running from "1" to my basement where there is PVDP-2 diplexer.

This runs a 322 dual tuner which runs my livingroom and bedroom TVs.

So my question is the dish 300 what I need? And does it need to be DP? And how do I hook that up?

[whicky1978]

What is voom? I don't think I get voom.

[Cegarrett]

When I got installed right after VOOM went Off My installer forgot my second dish. and had to run home to get the other dish he told me it would take about and hour for round trip I didn't have anything to do so I waited. He was back in about 15 Min. whenb I asked he told me he did an uninstall a couple of weeks earlier and just went and got that dish(it was a vacant house). (He said that it was the installers disgression on whether to remove the dish or not). So Look for a vacant house with a Dish 500 on it and take it.

Cegarrett