Thread: Two receivers - One cable

I've done a lot of searching and just get more confused the more I search. I think the solution is simple, but not sure. I have a 211k that I use in my camper. It's hooked to a 1000.4 and I've got real good at setting up everything. We just bought a new 5th wheel and it has separate inputs for the living room and bedroom. I would like to be able to use a splitter of some sort and split signal from the dish to each location at the 5ers inputs. I'd do this only on long trips and I have a separate 211k that i could take out of the house so we could watch two different "channels". Is this something simple or really complicated?

Just want the wife happy on those long trips. I understand that I may only be able to get 119 and 110 once out of my spotbeam location (Western Colorado), but that is ok with me.

Easy answer is no. You have to have a direct feed from the dish to the box. Maybe a switch of somesort would help but would need more details. NO SPLITTER

No splitters, that is true. But the 1000.4 has 3 outputs. You could in principle hook up 3 dual tuner receivers if each has a separate feed back to the dish.

One cable from the 1000.4 LNB to the Living Room receiver/input and one cable from the 1000.4 LNB to the bedroom receiver/input.

I'm confused by this. My receiver has one cable from the dish split for the SAT1 and SAT2 connections. Wouldn't connecting 2 separate receivers fall under the same principle?

Originally Posted by hawker152

Easy answer is no.

The only answer to the OP's question is (and has always been) that splitters cannot be used to divide a DPP feed for use with multiple receivers.

The solution lies in running two feeds from the LNB assembly into the RV.

Originally Posted by dare2be

I'm confused by this. My receiver has one cable from the dish split for the SAT1 and SAT2 connections. Wouldn't connecting 2 separate receivers fall under the same principle?

You're using a DPP Separator, which is not the same as a splitter. The OP would need a separate line run for the other receiver, a splitter will not work

Ok, then, would a DPP separator work with multiple receivers then? Just trying to understand.

Originally Posted by dare2be

Ok, then, would a DPP separator work with multiple receivers then? Just trying to understand.

No it would not. The separator only "splits" the satellite signal into the satellite 1&2 inputs. You can not run multiple receivers off of 1 line from the LNB