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Diplex Final Outcome This is a summary of what I went through. TV: Panasonic TH-50PX50U Receiver: Dish 811 Problem: Only 1 cable that runs through the walls to my HDTV. Dish network now connected to that cable at a distribution box in my laundry room (where the cable company used...

I have one of those antennas that wrap around the Dish500 and diplex the signal into my 811. According to antennaweb.org, I'm about 14 miles from the towers. I get NBC & CBS at around 84%. Fox & ABC come in usually only at night when a game is on around 70%. My dish faces SW and I know the...

According to my cable company, all I have to do is hook the cable into a hd tuner and scan for digital channels. I tried what RandalA said and hooked up the cable directly to the 811 receiver. I then scanned for digital signals and found none. The 811 only scanned to channel 70. I believe my...

Diplex Bust Well I finally got around to doing it. But it didn't work. I diplexed the cable & satellite signals and undiplexed them using GE antenna diplexers (Satellite: 950-2050MHz / Antenna: 45-890 MHz). My 811 receiver was able to find the analog stations but not the HD signals that my...

Does anyone know if the radioshack hig def outdoor antenna, the one that looks like a boomerang, is any good. Pictue of antenna I wanted to use it and diplex it with my Dish.

So what's the consensus? Should I try diplexing the cable & satellite? Could I do any harm to the system?

I just got the dish 500 and the 811 HD receiver. I also still have cable (which comes with my home owner's association). The Dish installer just ran the dish cable to my structured wiring box and connected it to where the cable tv signal was going - to where my television in my living room...

I'm getting diplexed So I would need 2 diplexers? Are they all the same? I guess at the dish, I would run a coax from the LNB to the doulble terminal side of the diplexer and connect the OTA to the same side. Then connect the coax going to the receiver to the single terminal side of the...

I'm very new at this stuff. I have a Dish 500 with 811 receiver. I wanted to get a directional OTA antenna for local HD but don't want to run another coax into the house. I tried the clip on one but the direction of the local signals are not the same as that of the DISH. The LNB has 2...

I just looked at the dish again and the free terminal says "LNB in". Could this be where I connect an off air antenna?

I have a Philips MANT910 clip on. I disconnected the coax cables from the dish's LNB and reconnected to terminals marked "out" on the MANT910. Then I connected coax cables from the dish's LNB outputs to the MANT910 terminal marked "in". At the two receivers that I have, I connected a diplexer...

So, I need to get 2 diplexers. But where do I connect it on the dish side?

I'm real new at this stuff, so be easy with the terminology. I want to connect an off air antenna to my dish 500 but don't want to run new coax cables to my receiver. I tried one that wraps around the dish and the instructions were pretty simple and I successfully hooked it up. But I'm not...