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Hiya friends,
Old voomer (oh how I miss it!) here. I'm trying to use my old Voom (God rest it's soul) OTA with my Dish set up.
I've got a 4 room dish install. 2 HD recievers (811) and the other two rooms share a dual tuner Standard Def reciever. I've got two dishes up with a total of 3 LNBs. I climbed up the roof and bolted my Winegard SG-2000A amplified OTA antenna to on of the dishes so I can get OTA to my two HD recievers. I hooked up the outside diplexer that was on the voom set up as to avoid having to run another long coax into the house (as there's already 4 lol).
However my OTA recieption downstairs is fair to poor and reception is 0% upstairs. I figure, along with aiming the antenna properly, I likely may need to add power to the antenna.
My questions are:
1.) Do the Dish STBs supply power out of the Satellite input F connecter as Voom's (God rest it's soul) did?
2.) If it does, do you suppose I run the risk of sending too much voltage (enough to cause any damage) to the Dish LNBs (as it's diplexed) if I connect Winegard's PS-9370 power supply to power the Antenna?
Thanks folks!
Sincerely,
HDragon
Old voomer (oh how I miss it!) here. I'm trying to use my old Voom (God rest it's soul) OTA with my Dish set up.
I've got a 4 room dish install. 2 HD recievers (811) and the other two rooms share a dual tuner Standard Def reciever. I've got two dishes up with a total of 3 LNBs. I climbed up the roof and bolted my Winegard SG-2000A amplified OTA antenna to on of the dishes so I can get OTA to my two HD recievers. I hooked up the outside diplexer that was on the voom set up as to avoid having to run another long coax into the house (as there's already 4 lol).
However my OTA recieption downstairs is fair to poor and reception is 0% upstairs. I figure, along with aiming the antenna properly, I likely may need to add power to the antenna.
My questions are:
1.) Do the Dish STBs supply power out of the Satellite input F connecter as Voom's (God rest it's soul) did?
2.) If it does, do you suppose I run the risk of sending too much voltage (enough to cause any damage) to the Dish LNBs (as it's diplexed) if I connect Winegard's PS-9370 power supply to power the Antenna?
Thanks folks!
Sincerely,
HDragon
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No you will not damage lnb. Lnbs are internally regulated for up to 35 volts and protected for rev pol and even higher voltages.
You cannot use the power supply however as you were correct in that the STBs add power the coax for powering DP devices. plus 21vdc. The two power supplies will not be "happy" connected together!
At best one will be cutoff by internal steering diode. At worse you will have smoke.
If you connected the diplexer properly it will supply voltage to your off air ant amp. As it did before. Diplexer must be power passive both ports or better yet, power reg to 12vdc to ant port.
Your lack of signal is most likely due to the DP switches not passing "off air".
The diplexer must be inserted closest to rec. on roof. The switch that connects your two dishes will not pass u/v signals.
If you have trouble following this, run another coax, as was suggested. That is always the "cleanest" method.
You cannot use the power supply however as you were correct in that the STBs add power the coax for powering DP devices. plus 21vdc. The two power supplies will not be "happy" connected together!
At best one will be cutoff by internal steering diode. At worse you will have smoke.If you connected the diplexer properly it will supply voltage to your off air ant amp. As it did before. Diplexer must be power passive both ports or better yet, power reg to 12vdc to ant port.
Your lack of signal is most likely due to the DP switches not passing "off air".
The diplexer must be inserted closest to rec. on roof. The switch that connects your two dishes will not pass u/v signals.
If you have trouble following this, run another coax, as was suggested. That is always the "cleanest" method.
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Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.
You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.
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View: https://youtu.be/Uecu2seh4b4
Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.
View: https://youtu.be/iws3rh5vLAQ
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I have Dish with Hopper3. I choose to get local channels OTA and had a "guide list" established at my previous home. Having moved a few miles away, I wanted to update the list by appending a couple new stations via a rescan. As many would know, some stations come in with the UHF/VHF antenna aimed in one direction, while others come in better with a different direction.
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
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Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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