Thread: acquired a receiver, want to add it to my setup

Hi All,

I acquired a dvr501 (free and clear) and want to put it in a spare room.

My setup is:

625 dual tuner receiver(already hook up to two tvs)
Dish-500 dp plus

I have a single coax line coming in from the dish that goes to a splitter. It also looks like the tech who installed it left me an additional coax line that is hanging from the dish at the moment.

1. Can I hook into the existing coax line coming in or do I have to use the coax line that the tech hanging from the dish? I am really not wanting to run an additional line from the dish so if I can use the existing coax run that goes to the splitter it would be much easier.

Call Dish, they will help, also Dish can tell you if that new receiver is legal.
Dan

Yes the receiver is legal. I called dish and they confirmed this. I thought this would be an easier way to get my question answered.....

Assuming the line hanging out of the dish is connected to your DPP Twin, yes you can connect to it and run a cable to the 501. Your 625 does not have a splitter connected to it that is a "SEPARATOR" even if it looks like a cable splitter. You cannot split satellite lines and have the receivers work except in some very limited cases.

Thank you. Yes the cable is hooked to the dish. I'll do it way which I figured would be the only way but wanted to make sure .

Remember to run RG6 to make sure you get all your sats.

Originally Posted by tlc1145

Remember to run RG6 to make sure you get all your sats.

Unnecessary if the cable is in good condition. I have a 211 hooked up to 75 feet of RG-59 in the walls of my house, and another 75 feet of RG-6, and my signal strengths are just as high as on another 211 that has a direct run of about 25 feet of RG-6. Now if this was for a dual-tuner receiver with DPP LNBs, I'd be worried because of the stacked frequencies, but for a single tuner - RG-6 is good insurance, but not mandatory for the receiver to work.

Get this relic 501 added to your account ASAP. Dish will be changing all SD, on the Western Arc, anyway, to 8PSK. This means that in the near future, Dish will replace that old 501 for a later, like model capable of demodulating 8PSK, at no charge. At some point, I expect Dish to no longer activate QPSK SD boxes once this the swap-out is in high gear.

Originally Posted by BuddyBoy

I'd be worried because of the stacked frequencies, but for a single tuner - RG-6 is good insurance, but not mandatory for the receiver to work.

On a DPP LNB it is stacked from the start, using RG59 on a DPP setup will cause something to fail quicker. If you had a DP setup instead there wouldn't be an issue.