Mad Scientist Hooks up 5 Satellite Locations!!!!

[larrystotler]

with shall we say, at least a triple-digit post count.

I don't have a triple digit post count...........................

 

[SimpleSimon]

I don't have a triple digit post count...........................

Not over here anyway.

Plus, you're not the one claiming this impossible dream can work.

 

[ajohnson]

ack, maybe I was thinking of the sw44

 

[SimpleSimon]

Could be AJ. And of course you know that's for Legacy only.

 

[larrystotler]

Still would not do it. The SW44 needs feed from 2 sats, 13 & 18 V feeds. If you hook up 2 SW21s, you would get only the 13 or 18 volt feed IF the switch was even seen......

 

[larrystotler]

Not over here anyway.

Plus, you're not the one claiming this impossible dream can work.

True, but I had that oddball 5 dish on legacy setup that you said "was a stupid idea anyway".....................

 

[boy921]

2 DPP44 + DPP21 for 5 satellites

Check this site for the information about 5 satellites using two DPP44 + 1 DPP21.

http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=64267&page=2&pp=15

 

[SimpleSimon]

Unh. You're not really using 2 DPP44's in that configuration, but thanks for trying.

The cascade outputs of a DP switch are simply "copies" of the corresponding LNBF inputs.

In some ways you can think of it as the output of a DP Splitter.

 

[Van]

I know this is an old thread but let me throw a little bit of fat on the griddle.
Last week I was doing a service call on a 322 system connected to a dpptwin, I went to the check switch and noticed the hit or miss 110 ghost on tuner one thats only supposed to happen on new out of box units hooked to a dp44 switch. Well I replaced an unrated wall plate barrel and hooked the coax back up, upon running the check switch it ran 1 of 14 on tuner one and 1 of 3 on tuner two. I gave up on waiting to see the outcome so I have no idea what kind of configuration it would give out and did a front panel reset and did the nifty trick of flipping the seperator to do a 1 - 2 / 2-1 to clear out the ghos issue. So from reading what you said at the beginning about what I believe was 12 orbital slots it would seem that E has hidden configuration possibilities for even more, I wish that I had been more patient and waited to see what it would have said.

 

[drosene]

How many do you count?

While some of you may have seen this before, I suspect it will make one or two Mad Scientists want to cry, especially Iceberg!

Just google for the IMAGE "Antenne-toroidale"

Sorry I couldn't just post the image I have not made enought posts.

From a newbie just browsing.

 

[Derwin0]

seen it before. Considered getting one once, but you can't find reversed DishPro Lnb's, so it's worthless for more than 3 or 4 sats with Dish.
Great in Europe though, with all the birds above them.

 

[Mr Tony]

While some of you may have seen this before, I suspect it will make one or two Mad Scientists want to cry, especially Iceberg!

BAH! One of those would never be at my house
The more dishes the better!

You can never use too many LNB's

 

[HoppertheKangaroo18]

Going for the gold with the 921! Part 1: experiments with the DP+separator

Emboldened by the unbelievably easy install of 5 satellites on the 811, it was time to tackle the most finicky of Dish receivers.... the dreaded 921.

The first experiment was a simple failure

Well I really did not think it would work, but I decided to test it out and see if Dish miracles could happen. It is the most difficult possible configuration:

1. DP+separator attached to the two inputs with about 1 foot of cable
2. Power inserter about 1 foot past the DP+separator
3. Line to the outside to connect to the DP21
4. Connections of the DP21 to the DP+44 on side 1 and 105 on side 2

Note that before the addition of of the SW21 the 921 was seeing 4 satellites on the DP+44 using the separator to feed both inputs with one cable from the switch.

This experiment resulted in only 1 satellite visible, 105 on the SW21. It is understandable since I suspect the DP+44 was not receiving power from the power inserter since it was behind the DP21 switch. One has to wonder when the DP+21 comes out next year if it will pass power through it.

The next experiment was to move the power inserter to the roof and put it between the DP21 and the DP+44 switches. This produced a most interesting result. I was surprised that it worked like it did, but the mysteries of the DP+separator are not solved! Note the screen shot here of the switch matrix test. You will see tuner 1 found 4 satellites and tuner 2 found 5! Of course this experiment was not really expected to work since the DP21 is not a DP+21 and the receiver has no real way to ask it for the separate bands from different satellites.

As a last ditch effort to see if there was any way to get the separator to work I put the DP21 switch on the other side of the DP+44 switch. I hooked up one of the LNB feeds of the DP+44 to the receiver output of the DP21 and hooked up 2 satellites to the DP21. This resulted in no switches being found at all... Curious the DP+44 did not even show up.

For your amusement I attached 2 screen shots of the DP21/DP+44/DP+Separator combination. Note that it sees a satellite on one tuner but not the other.

What reciever model is in the picture with switch matrix

 

[navychop]

Close to 20 years. Nice.

 

[Mr Tony]

What reciever model is in the picture with switch matrix

There is NO reason to drudge up old threads like that. You've been told that already once before

 

[Jim5506]

What reciever model is in the picture with switch matrix

It's in the first line of the post you quoted from 20 years ago.

 

[tedb3rd]

I like that this post was resurrected. It's nostalgia in the heyday of satellite TV.

 

[telstar_1]

Huh, I've tried to add to threads much younger but am told I don't have the cards...er, privileges

 

[Willh699]

i feel like HopperTheKangaroo18 is gonna get permabanned from here.

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