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Ok Mom just told her uncle about FTA , he's clueless as to what FTA is, he's 83 and thinking he can get this at Best Buy, I told him that I would help him put one up, just used Google Earth to get and Idea of his LOS and trees around his property.

He's on a fixed income so I'm thinking stationary dish pointed at Hispasat and a cheap end receiver, maybe a clone, he just wants the Cuba stuff, basically 5 tv stations and 7 radio stations + some more spanish stuff he'll find amusing.

He already has DN or Direct TV so I don't have to mess with the coax into the house, just add a switch on one end and a splitter at the other so he could have his receivers side by side. Does this sound like the right setup ?

Right now this is a great excuse to go to Florida .

Iceberg said:

...you cant combine the Dish/Direct & FTA cables together

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What makes the setup not compatible, disecq switch allows 4 dishes (LNB's) to an FTA receiver, does the problem lie in the DN receiver or in the splitter ?

Sorry for asking, just want to know the principles behind switches and splitters and why they may not work if configured this way.

Is it because of the ports settings which work on FTA and not DN ?