Hardware needed for adding a wing dish to get HD locals?

[TalonDancer]

Dish says they will be out Sat afternoon to add a wing dish (for the newly available Austin HD Locals on 61.5) to my Dish 1000 (110/119/129) which is attached to a ViP622 w/ 1 HD TV*.

What hardware is really needed? Can this be done with one wire in and no switch? Can they just 'daisy chain' the two dishes together?

I know many people list DPP44 switches when they have multiple dishes. But they seem to always have multiple TVs too.

Thanks in Advance - Talon Dancer



* We will never want more than 1 TV on this install for our one room cabin. We don't have room for more than one TV. In fact, our "HD TV" is a 24" LCD monitor for a PowerMac most of the time

Edit: OOPs I posted in the wrong forum, Please move it to the HD forum - thanks.

[Dishdude17]

do you have a 1000 or 1000.2? if you have a 1000(dpp twin + single) i would think they would just pop in a 1000.2 triple which has an input for another orbital location. No switch would be needed with your set up

[TalonDancer]

do you have a 1000 or 1000.2? if you have a 1000(dpp twin + single) i would think they would just pop in a 1000.2 triple which has an input for another orbital location. No switch would be needed with your set up

Thanks. That sounds good.

I was told it was a Dish 1000. It was installed in June of 2006. I think that was before the 1000.2 were released. But maybe it was close to the same time frame. Is there an easy way to actually check which one I have?

In the System Info page in box H "Device: DPP Twin, Twin(1), Twin(2), Dual(3)"

Talon Dancer

[HalfFull]

More info on this thread:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-net...dd-61-5-a.html

[TalonDancer]

More info on this thread:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-net...dd-61-5-a.html

Thanks for the link. I didn't think to search in that forum- DUH.

I looks like I have a regular Dish 1000. So I guess they will need to swap LNBs or add a switch. Where is a DPP44 switch located? Inside or outside of the the building?

Talon Dancer

[RandallA]

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Thanks for the link. I didn't think to search in that forum- DUH.

I looks like I have a regular Dish 1000. So I guess they will need to swap LNBs or add a switch. Where is a DPP44 switch located? In the building or inside the LNB?

Talon Dancer

You can place any switch outside or inside. I prefer to have them inside but they are designed for outside too. Most likely they will replace the 1000 with a 1000.2 and add the wing dish for 61.5. The DPP44 switch is more expensive so I doubt they'll go that route but anything is possible.