My installer is here to install D*. I have an oval triple LNB dish as well as an 18" round dish for locals. I also have a 6x8 multi-switch. Here are my questions:
1) The oval dish instructions say that there is a multi-switch built in. Do I still need the additional switch? How many wires will be running down my house? Does each wire coming out of the oval dish have all 3 sattellites or do I still need all of the wires hooked into the seperate multi-switch?
2) How does the round 18" fit it? Is that why I need the multi-switch? If so, how many wires need to go into the multi-switch altogether?
The installer didn't seem sure how to do the installation, which is not good. He's putting the dishes together right now.
Right now, there's a dish already on my roof from Dish Network with 3 wires coming down into my basement hooked into a multi-switch. What will be different with D* in this respect? Since the dish has a multi-switch built-in, will only 1 wire need to come down from each of the D* dishes?
Thanks!
1) The oval dish instructions say that there is a multi-switch built in. Do I still need the additional switch? How many wires will be running down my house? Does each wire coming out of the oval dish have all 3 sattellites or do I still need all of the wires hooked into the seperate multi-switch?
2) How does the round 18" fit it? Is that why I need the multi-switch? If so, how many wires need to go into the multi-switch altogether?
The installer didn't seem sure how to do the installation, which is not good. He's putting the dishes together right now.
Right now, there's a dish already on my roof from Dish Network with 3 wires coming down into my basement hooked into a multi-switch. What will be different with D* in this respect? Since the dish has a multi-switch built-in, will only 1 wire need to come down from each of the D* dishes?
Thanks!