Newbie Dish 500 & Dish 300 Hookup Question.

[Grush]

Hello all,

First of all, let me say that I am not just being lazy and trying to get out of searching. I have read more posts then my brain can handle, but I want an exact answer to my question so I figured I would post. So here goes.

I have one Dish 500 with two Dual Legacy LNBs connected with an SW21 switch. Then I am running one cable going from that about a good 90 feet to my single 301 reciever.

Now, for the real question. I want to add another Dish for international channels. I got my hands on a Dish 300 with one Dual Legacy LNB on it. I was wondering if I can just get away with buying a SW21X on ebay and get it over with or do I have to make things much more complicated than that?

I really am not interested in spending a ton of money on DishPro LNBs and would really like to work with what I have now unless someone can give me a good reason to switch them all out (like better quality etc...).

Please help,

Lost in wonderland!

 

[thiggin2]

well you can hook up a Dish 300 but you would need to put a Legacy Twin Lnb on the Dish 500 and combine the 2 dishes using a SW21.

 

[Grush]

I didn't realize that you can run an SW21 switch with the Twin LNB. If that's the case, then it sounds like I only need to buy different LNB for the Dish 500.

 

[thiggin2]

It should look something like this , except this is also running a second receiver.

 

[Grush]

Perfect answer. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a million!

 

[thiggin2]

Anytime .

 

[thiggin2]

And forgive me for not saying "Welcome to Satelliteguys.us" .

 

[geobernd]

Hello all,

Now, for the real question. I want to add another Dish for international channels. I got my hands on a Dish 300 with one Dual Legacy LNB on it. I was wondering if I can just get away with buying a SW21X on ebay and get it over with or do I have to make things much more complicated than that?

Just a word of caution: If your channels are only on 121W (e.g. GermanTV) then the Dish 300 does not work. You would need at least a 30" dish with a standard KU FSS LNB (not the Dish DSS LNB)... Check the lyngsat site to see where your channels are (at least thats where I am checking )

 

[hokiecb]

You have three total duals and not a twin for the dish 500... right? If thats the case the instalation would be a little different than the diagram with the 500 with a twin. I would probaly get a twin and hook it up like the diagram. Without it you would need a sw64 switch.. because if you had two duals on the 500 and connected it with 2 sw21's to the 61.5 sat, one tv would have 61.5 and 119 and the other would have 61.5 and 110. correct me if i'm wrong.

 

[thiggin2]

Correct....
He was going to put a twin on the 500. That would be the cheapest way to go.

 

[Grush]

That's exactly what I am going to do. Just a twin on the 500 should take care of it with little cost involved. Just checked ebay and found a few for around the 15 dollar range. Can't beat that price with a stick. Only bad part is that I have to wait for it to arrive and that's hard for me. Can't wait, lol.

Thanks again, Grush.

 

[viqventeur]

Just out of curiosity, since he has only one receiver, what would happen if he connected the "to rec" port on the sw21 from the Dish500 to Sat 1 on a new sw21 and connected the line coming from the Dish300 line to Sat 2 on the new sw21 and the out of the new sw21 was the line running to the one receiver. Can you cascade sw21s?

 

[SimpleSimon]

Nice try Big V, but no joy. HOWEVER, you're on the right track.

There's a 3rd-party switch called a SW21X (from Microyal?) that is configured to look like half a SW42 (the switch in a Twin).

IIRC, the SW21X has to have 2 LNBs for inputs - so the SW21 Port 1 is hooked to the SW21X output.

 

[Pepper]

you cannot cascade SW21s but can cascade a SW21 with a SW42 or SW44 or SW64 depending on the software in your receiver, not all of them support all cascades. The oem "SW21X" device is actually emulating half of a SW42. So the answer to the original question is probably "yes"