Recent content by johnhicks

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    Looking For a Good Amplifier

    they are all in the 20's on a good day. 129 is the worst, of coarse!
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    Looking For a Good Amplifier

    It is all RG6 with a mixture of copper and copper clad but has 8 or so F connectors with 2 barrel connectors
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    Looking For a Good Amplifier

    I need some input on a good amplifier for an application that has long drops and numerious connectors. This application has a 1K.2 which is fed by a 300, TREES, TREES, and picks up 110, 119 and 129 pretty well but by the time we get to the recievers the signal is pretty low. Winter weather is...
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    To Power or Not to Power a DPP44

    Thanks Randall, that may explain some of the issues he has had with his 622 over the months. The 44 is outside so I should be able to put the power insterter inside on port 1, right? Thanks again.
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    To Power or Not to Power a DPP44

    The old part timer has installed several DPP44's and always used the power unit provided. The other day I was servicing a site that had a 500 and a 300 running into a 44 but the 44 did not have external power. The switch was feeding 4 receivers, some of them dual and everything was working fine...
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    How to Connect a 1000.2 to 4 receivers

    Thanks folks, my hangup is that I thought I read somewhere that you should not exceed 80 feet from the dish to the DPP44. This application should be about 140' to the media center so I will try it.
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    How to Connect a 1000.2 to 4 receivers

    Does anyone know of a splitter that will accept the stacked signal from a 1000.2 dish and distribute it to 4 recievers? If I run 3 RG6's to a DPP44 I exceed the length requirement before I reach a point to power the DPP44. Sorry I'm just part time.