Newb Hookup.. help please :)

[boilerfan1234]

Hi all. Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I have an existing Dish Network 500 dish mounted on top of the house I just rented. The cables from the dish were cut to allow for cable tv to connect. I was wondering if it were possible to use the existing dish by unhooking the cable and hooking the Dish line back up. Are there any grounding issues i would need to address for the dish? A friend of mine is going to give me a Coolsat 4000 Pro. Any help would be appriciated since I am new to the FTA game. Thanks!

 

[SatinKzo]

Well, you would still need to ground the line.

Glad you saw the sticky on the dish500 setups.

 

[boilerfan1234]

Yeah saw the channels (lack of) for the Dish 500.

 

[Sadoun]

You can remove that small dish and put a 30"+ dish in its place. Then you can use an FTA receiver to view the FTA channels.

 

[Anole]

You can remove that small dish and put a 30"+ dish in its place.
Then you can use an FTA receiver to view the FTA channels.

Actually, that's not a bad idea at all.
It's installing the mount and running the wiring that's the big pain.
You've got 75% of the job already done for you.