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Thanks for the heads up. I had my set for auto-renewal and said that I was considering dropping ST but had read about an offer for a free HD DVR if I would keep my auto-renewal. He said yes, then came back after about 90 seconds on hold and asked if I agreed to the terms (w/ the $19.95...

St. Louis HD locals are live on D* as of this morning, May 17th. FOX 2 CBS 4 NBC 5 ABC 30 All coming in loud and clear! :)

TC Plus - $49.99 Lease fee - $4.99 Lease fee - $4.99 DVR service - $5.99 HBO - $12.00 Total monthly charges - $77.96 + tax (~$4) Equipment wise, you'll get your basic receiver and the SD DVR for free (after rebate), plus the install free. The only thing you'll have to pay up front...

Yeah. What made it worse, and basically wasted my whole day, is that I thought I had isolated the problem to either the diplexers or section of coax going back to the dish because the OTA was coming through fine. If I had just redone that one connector right away, I would have been done in 5 min.

Ding ding ding. We have a winner. While you were responding, I went back up there and clipped off the connecter I had crimped for the drop and put a new one on. Everything works perfectly now, thank God. I never knew how important it was to get that shielding away from the copper just perfectly.

It took me all day, but I've isolated the problem. It wasn't the leg of cable going back to the dish, it's the section of cable going down the wall into my family room (where I'm trying to send both signals). I tested it by running about 20ft of new coax from where I put the diplexer, down...

Yeah, the diplexers only pass DC on the sat leg. I found what the problem is, the drop from my attic down to this receiver that I'm sending both signals too. I tested it by running about 20ft from where I put the diplexer, down through my attic access (into a closet) and hooked up the other...

Out of frustration, I went back in the attic and used a simple F-type coax coupler to reattach the coax that I had cut.. thinking, okay, let's start at square one and make sure I can just get the sat. signal here... no antenna, no splitters, diplexers, just a straight shot from the dish as it's...

Okay, in reading old threads here, could this have something to do with DC going to the OTA antenna and causing power/signal loss to the dish? To test, I unscrewed the OTA coax feed from the diplexer in the attic, but my satellite signal did not return. Also, both types of diplexers I tried...

Okay, new problem. I crawled in the attic and moving my antenna closer to the dish where all 4 feeds could have been combined with the OTA signal is not an option. So, I split the antenna signal and ran one to my existing HD receiver, and I'm only going to feed it to one other receiver (not...

Quick rundown on what I'm doing.... I have two HDTV's, a triple LNB DirecTV oval dish (phase III I think, purchased last summer from CC), just 4 lines coming from the dish (4 receivers, 2 of them are HD), and I don't see a multiswitch of any kind... I think it's sorta built into them now...

Thanks for the reply. Hmm. But I only need 4 outputs, and I'll probably only use the OTA signal on two of my receivers (the HD ones). Could I use a quad combiner? Take the 4 feeds from the switch, + the OTA, and then output from there to the receivers (using diplexers on the 2 receviers...

I have a DirecTV triple LNB oval dish with the built-in switch (4 outputs). I'm looking to add my OTA antenna to the system so that I can distrubute that signal to the 4 rooms that the dish is feeding. The way I understand it, I'll need 8 total diplexers? 1 one each line, coming off the...

Yeah, if they offered a season pass for individual teams (ie. like the Cards and/or Blues) I'd be all over that. But I can't see paying the full pop for the whole league. The only one I'll do that for is Sunday Ticket, but why on Earth would I want to watch a Orioles vs Royals game. Yawner...

Yeah, no joke. ckudrna, it's not rocket science, but a fair question for sure. No need to get with the attitude or get condesending about it like Slider said. I'm in a similar situation after living in St. Louis all of my life and then recently moving to Tampa. On the DirecTV website itself...