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[clinscheid]

This past weekend I installed the new 18x20 triple LNB dish and ran a dual R69 coax run into the attic to a splitter. It's a 2 input to 4 output splitter that I have used before, but not with the HD setup. I continued the dual run to the HD receiver/TiVo and then 1 run to the spare bedroom and another outside to the deck. I can watch D* in all 3 locations but when hooked through the splitter I CANNOT get a signal from 119 on the HD receiver, thus no HD channels. I get an error call x721 message. When I bypass the splitter I can "see" it just fine. Once the splitter is out of the loop then I have another problem....see #2

#1 What type of splitter can I use? I don't want to make another coax run from the dish for the bedroom & deck locations.

#2 I cannot pickup the HD package I subscribed to due to it not being hooked to a phone line 24-7, something about FCC laws. I was told (by D*) that I needed to sign a waiver to allow me to use the HD receiver without it being hooked to the phone line. Once this waiver is signed I'll start receiving the HD package. I did hook it to a phone line on the intial install but don't want it hooked-up 24-7 due to its location and the need to run cabling.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance!!!

 

[Hogarth]

You'll need a cascadable multiswitch. All four lines from your dish **must** go to the multiswitch. All lines to receivers must go from the multiswitch. Search here on it -- plenty of threads.

Re #2 -- the CSR you were talking to is smoking crack.

 

[boba]

What you are using is NOT A SPLITTER it is a MULTISWITCH there is quite a difference between the 2. And the correct answer is a Cascadable multiswitch if you want more than 4 connections to the dish. If all you want is the existing connections just run 4 cables from the dish to the location of your current multiswitch and splice them with F-81s.

 

[clinscheid]

Thanks for the input. I will go get a cascadable multi-switch. Can you recommend a particular vendor or brand name?

I called the dumb@$$ at D* back and this is what I have found. I have some HD channels but not the local channels in HD, although I do have them in SD. The Atlanta channels are not broadcast in HD so they will submit a waiver request to see if they will allow me to receive the HD channels out of the New York area.

Does this sound right to you?

Thanks!

 

[jawilljr]

Hereis one

Here is another one

Jerry

 

[Hogarth]

Get an OTA Antenna. You'll enjoy it more, as your waivers will likely be denied.

 

[al]

It appears that you only need 4 connections for your receiver setup. Run two more runs from the LNBF, and barrell all 4 connections to the cables that go to the receivers from the switch.

If you need more than 4 connections, then you DO need a cascadable 4x8 or 5x8 multiswitch. But even in this case, you MUST have all 4 lines coming in from the LNBF.


Al

 

[joey1983]

OTA Antenna

Hogarth, what is a OTA antenna?

 

[Hogarth]

OTA == Over-the-Air.

The only way to get your HD local channels.
D* doesn't carry HD locals on the satellite yet, except for Detroit.