Recent content by Tom Speer

You are correct. Thank you for refreshing my memory. My first HR24 was installed 15 years ago. Further research discloses that The HR24 was introduced before DirecTV's shift to Single Wire Multiswitch (SWM) technology. It was designed to work with legacy multiswitch out of the box.

The HR24 should not have the B-Band converter installed. If I remember right, the HR24 requires a SWM system. Hopefully you have no other non-SWM receivers. You will need a SL3S LNB for the sats at 99,101,and 103. SWM LNBs are recognizable by the fact that they have only one F-connector on...

I don't have access to that datasheet. It probably was a proprietary chip made for DirecTV, I suspect it is the heart of the SWM functionality, which under control of the DirecTV receiver, switches one transponder on a specific frequency, LHCP or RHCP on one of the three feedhorns to a...

What Titanium is talking about requires a Legacy DirecTV LNB, not a SWM LNB.

It is worth a try. But DirecTV tends to use proprietary standards for their systems. I am not familiar with Unicable, a European standard, but reading about it online indicates it operates very similar to what DirecTV does. If DirecTV uses DiseqC commands, I am unaware of it. The SWM...

Hi Ben, this is Tom , N2HF. Unfortunately, Copilot misdirected you to a DirecTV Single Wire Multiplex LNB. The SWM system uses out of band signals from the receiver to the LNB to have the LNB place the IF output from a specific band and feedhorn onto one of 21 different frequencies on the...

The HR24 does not have built-in Wi‑Fi capability. It can only connect to the internet via wired Ethernet or coax — depending on your setup. A DECA adapter or the old Cinema Connection kit (CCK) would allow it to connect to a wired connection to your router, communicating through the coax...

I was able to use that screenshot to bring it up for download on my Android 15 phone. It won't install. It says it would install on my old Android phone that I just took to the electronic recycling at our transfer station. Its battery was so swollen that the back was popped off.

More likely to be a dish alignment issue than a failing LNB. With marginal signal strength for 103b, one polarization could be better than the other. Also look for issues with trees or other vegetation growing into the line of sight to 103.

If they actually were running short of a specific model, They may have ordered a new production run from the company that manufactures them. DirecTV itself has no production facilities. That is not the same thing as designing and contracting for a whole new model. There are two...

DIRECTV is not designing or building any new satellites. It is not designing/building new boxes for the satellites, it has plenty on hand.

Barring a technical failure, the sats have 5 or 10 years left. The spot beam sats are the oldest so local channels would probably go first, if DirecTV Is still in the satellite business then.

I believe you were an existing customer. They seem to be pushing new customers to the streaming side.

*MeToon is up in the satellite guide data on 295 in test tonight. D15@103ca Tpn 2, PID 0x1080

DirecTV will probably use whatever PSIP channel number WSVN chooses to use for their subchannel, assuming they reach a acarriage deal with DIRECTV. In other markets with two major networks are on subchannels of one transmitter, they assign them different PSIP numbers, without any subchannel...