switch for 4 separate dishes

ewnowak

SatelliteGuys Family
Original poster
Apr 25, 2004
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If I'm going to be using separate dishes for 105,110,119, and 148 and I want to feed 4 separate TVs what kind of switch do I need? A larger dish will be used for 105, because of it's weaker signal.
I am presently using an SW64 switch to connect output from separate Dish100s for 110,119, and 148 to the following 4 receivers:
1-Echostar 4000, 2-Echostar 3000, 1-Echostar 301.
Later on I plan to add new receivers for HDTV.
 
Use a SW64/SW21 cascade for each IRD (receiver). Connect as follows:

SW64
1A-->119
1B-->119
2A-->110
2B-->110
3A-->148
3B-->148
1-->Power Inserter-->SW21 1
2-4-->SW21 1

SW21 4 each
1-->As above
2-->Rx1-Rx4 of 3x4 multiswitch
Output-->IRD

3x4 multiswitch (Eagle Aspen S-2140-CE+ 40-2050 MHz)
18V SAT-->105 18V
13V SAT-->105 13V
Rx1-Rx4-->SW21 2