Recent content by GTC123

One of my neighbors took his old dish, painted it nicely, added his address and mounted it in front of his home. I'm sure he thinks it's the coolest thing around. (to me it looks like someone "tagged" his house, but to each his own).

It's easy when I have great advise from you guys! I now have the problem solved, and as a bonus, I'm the proud owner of a useless multiswitch! Thanks everyone for your help.

I brought the ladder this time. 4 cables come from the dish and are connected to an SWM-8. From there 1 cable goes to my cottage. While checking satellite signals, I noticed I could check the incoming SWM signal, and all signals are quite good. Since the SWM-8 is powered, can I now assume all I...

Thanks for pointing that out, Chip. I have now done research (visited the dish) and found there is an SWM attached to it. Only one cable goes to my receiver. The other one I had attached apparently was from an old Dish Network dish which had been disconnected. So now I'm back to needing a...

OK, as I understand this, I simply take one of the cables (I assume the one that goes into the SWM input on the receiver) and connect that to a splitter (DTV specific splitter?) and then one cable to each of the receivers into the swm jack? That sounds too easy. Thanks guys.

Hi Everyone, I have 2 PVR's, an HR20-100 and an HR23-xxx. I would like to use them both off the same dish. The problem is, I am renting and there are only 2 cables coming from the dish (Slimline-3) and there's no way to change that. I have a Zinwell 2 x 4 multiswitch, but that doesn't seem to...