Hey guys. Long time lurker, first time poster. I appreciate everything I've learned over the years here, so thanks! Anyway on to my quesiton.
I have a DirecTV account based out of Miami, and I also have a home in Haiti. When I go to Haiti, I currently have a 6 ft round dish pointed at the 101 satellite, and I get all the SD channels. I have 3 more 6 ft dishes on the roof, which are currently not pointed at anything. I also have some 8ft dishes I could swap out if needed.
What I would like to do is get HD channels in Haiti. For HD channels, I understand from reading over the years, that I would need to pick up the 99 and 103 satellites, in addition to the 101.
My question is this: Is it possible to, with 3 dishes, point at each of the 3 satellites individually, and then run 3 different cables from the 3 dishes and combine the 99, 101, and 103 dish cables into 1 master signal feeder cable, which I would then split off into the different recievers? If so what equipment would I need aside from the 3 dishes with their single LNBs? a Multiswitch? A Splitter? Etc.
Follow-up question: Assuming, that is indeed possible, is there anyway to have a SWM/legacy mixed type system with this setup so I could get 2 tuners with one wire?
Essentially what I'd like to have eventually is this setup:
3 Dishes (3 wires) --> Signal Combiner --> 1 Wire --> Mixed SWM/Legacy Splitter --> Recievers (both SWM and non-swm, more than 8 tuners)
I have a DirecTV account based out of Miami, and I also have a home in Haiti. When I go to Haiti, I currently have a 6 ft round dish pointed at the 101 satellite, and I get all the SD channels. I have 3 more 6 ft dishes on the roof, which are currently not pointed at anything. I also have some 8ft dishes I could swap out if needed.
What I would like to do is get HD channels in Haiti. For HD channels, I understand from reading over the years, that I would need to pick up the 99 and 103 satellites, in addition to the 101.
My question is this: Is it possible to, with 3 dishes, point at each of the 3 satellites individually, and then run 3 different cables from the 3 dishes and combine the 99, 101, and 103 dish cables into 1 master signal feeder cable, which I would then split off into the different recievers? If so what equipment would I need aside from the 3 dishes with their single LNBs? a Multiswitch? A Splitter? Etc.
Follow-up question: Assuming, that is indeed possible, is there anyway to have a SWM/legacy mixed type system with this setup so I could get 2 tuners with one wire?
Essentially what I'd like to have eventually is this setup:
3 Dishes (3 wires) --> Signal Combiner --> 1 Wire --> Mixed SWM/Legacy Splitter --> Recievers (both SWM and non-swm, more than 8 tuners)