Hi, no splitter, just using the factory built in multiswitch, we have 2 dishes, 1 is about 150' away, the other is around 50' from the switch, was using an old original 3 lnb with the sat c combiner. I figured the dish closest is powering up the sat ok. RG6 all the way.
The dish 3 floors down is using a diplexer for the OTA antenna since its a single wire, the other receiver is direct no diplexer, they both have the same problem, I did notice I get one odd transponder, I think is #3 is getting a signal, all the other odds are "0". I understand not to use a diplexer for HD sats, go direct only, but we are not using HD now just the 5 LNB dish. Also its hard to tell because its concealed, the wire run going 3 floors down may be older RG59.
Since we are setting up an MPEG4 5 sat dish with older 3LNB receivers, is this confusing the older receivers?
Everyone is starting to complain at work since the 101 is not working right the guide data is corrupt and there are a handful of missing channels. Could it be just a fine tune of the dish?, I figured if I get the sat I should pick up all the xponders. I only have a simple inline sat meter, the cheapy kind. Ddid not use a compass either just ballparked the sats. I used to install Dtv in the 90's and used the Sun as my bearing, always found the birds.
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