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Dish 500 help

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Oct 31, 2004
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I recently installed a Fortec Star dish and had to disconnect my older Dish 500 one. I connected my Fortec Star using the Dish Network Switch and ran a cable from the Fortec receiver "loop" to the Dish 500 receiver. The Fortec works fine, but I am only getting signal on the 110 W but not the 119W (and it is not being detected at all). I ran a direct connection from the satellite to my Dish 500 receiver, but I am having the same issue. I am getting a super strong signal on the 110 W, but nothing on the 119 and it' snot detected.

I called Dish support; and I got some customer service reps who know this stuff as much as I do or less reading back to me from their manuals.

Any idea to what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks.
 
Like I said in your other post on this, the receiver can't talk to the lnb's that way. You must connect the receiver to the switch as the loopthrough is NOT just a piece of wire. It is buffered and will not pass the receivers information to the lnb.
 
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