smack.... or anyone else...

[WatchDish]

i have a dish 500 system added a new sat at 61degrees


i have tried to cascade a sw21 (110 and 119 degrees) into another sw21 (61 degrees) does not work i lost the 110. i do not want to spend 150 for the sw64 for the Free TV yet, want to wait a little longer before i spend the bucks and see how it actually works out...

is there a a-b switch i can get to manually switch between the 2 setup's i currently remove the co-ax cable..

i tried a few but they all are for tv antenna and sat, so the dish signal that goes into the tv antenna does not work...
and pointers to where can i get one that will serve the purpouse will be of great help.

[smack]

An A/B switch will work...pretty much any coax A/B switch, As long as you're going from one receiver to multiple dishes. If you're going to try multiple receivers to one dish, you have to be careful because some switches will ground/short the unused ports.

Good Luck

Scott

[messado]

I had the same problem, the solution is; use a twin lnb for the 110 and 119 birds, this will allow you to pick up both birds using one coaxial,then run another coaxial from the 61.5 bird,you will need a sw21 switch to send the signal from both dishes to your reciever.

[skyradar]

messado I dont think so Ive tryed this switch for dtv and when hooked to both sat. dishes loose all signal.see the post by me for two dishes one ird there are a couple of good links there to the proper switches.

[skeeter010203]

I have a SW64 switch with 2 recievers, 2 dishes and I'm not going to use it anymore...(dropped dominion programming). Anyway, I will sell you my SW64 if your interested. About a year old but works great. Able to run upto 4 recievers on it. Email samspud0123@yahoo.com if interested.

[messado]

Skyradar, this works for me, using a echo* 500 dish, the key is a twin lnb not the dual lnb.We are talking about Dish network not direct tv.