two dish hook up

[zarkon0007]

i am wondering if there is any way of hooking up two seperate three lnb oval dish's to the same system. i would like to combine the signal from both so that i dont lose signal strength at different times of the year due to foliage and such. any help in this would be appreciated

[jbraden]

Yes, it's pretty simple actually. Mount one Phase III dish so it has a clear shot to the the 110 and 119 satellites, and the other so it can see the 101 satellite (you can actually use an 18" round dish for this one). Adjust the dishes so they get peak signals on their respective satellites. Run two wires from the 101 dish to the no-tone inputs of a 4x4 or 4x8 multiswitch, and two wires from the 110/119 dish to the 22KHz tone inputs of the multiswitch. Connect your receivers to the outputs of the multiswitch.

To combine a Phase III dish with an AT9 to get all of the new HD channels see the third solution here:

http://www.dbstalk.com/showpost.php?p=1079192&postcount=164