Help please...

[SatelliteGAL]

I have tried a search but need more info in less time than I have.
My sister is rving around and had problems receiving all the channels. She spoke to Dish several times but they never figured out that her problem was that the new dish lnbs for her rv is dish pro and her receiver was legacy. Now that we have figured that out I was looking for the list of receivers that would work with dishpro lnbs to see if any of my unused receivers would work. How about a 3900? The second 1/2 of the question would be would it work immediately or would it need the new yellow smartcard if it didnt already have it? She will be moving on soon so I wanted to be sure before we went through re-activating one of the receivers on her account.

Thanx

 

[n0qcu]

No dish receiver with a four digit model number will work with dishpro without the adapter.

 

[SatelliteGAL]

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

[tjbeckett]

Where as the legacy recievers won't work with the dish pro lnbf you can still use them with a dish pro to legacy adapter, as long as you aren't using a super dish in some cases. You may try to use the adapter. It will work with the following recievers 1000, 2000, 2800, 3000, 3900, 4000, 4900, 5000, 6000, 71/7200, JVC IRR, or any variation of these models. The blue card will work for the time being, but you will eventually be sent a new one that will have to replace the blue one.

 

[HCI]

Adaptors will not work on a 1000 reciever

 

[tjbeckett]

Acctually I believe that it will allow the 1000 to use dp signal also.....this comes from the online troubleshooter provided by E* "Allows a "Legacy" receiver (1000, 2000, 2800, 3000, 3900, 4000, 4900, 5000, 6000, 71/7200, JVC IRR) to be connected to a DISH Pro Switch and DISH Pro LNBFs." Go to http://rweb.echostar.com/departmental_content/TechPortal/content/tech/equipment/legacy.shtml and check out the adapter there.

 

[HCI]

I have tried it on a 1000 with a dp34 switch and it only checked 119 and 110 no 105. It also says in the instructions with the adaptors model recivers it will work on and 1000 is not listed. It does say on the site it will work but the time I tried it I had to get tech support on the line and they said it will not work. They ended up sending the customer a new receiver to replace the 1000.

 

[n0qcu]

I have tried it on a 1000 with a dp34 switch and it only checked 119 and 110 no 105.

It worked just like it should have. The 1000 & several other of the older receivers cannot 'see' 105 or 121.

 

[tonyp56]

This may sound crazy but wouldn't it be cheaper and/or better just to buy a new receiver(s)? Than it would be to buy an adapter?

 

[tjbeckett]

thats almost the case the adapter is about $69