4 birds into 1 receiver

[gunkysputter]

I have a 301 receiver, a DishPro500 Dual LNBF and am wanting to throw two other older Dish300 dishes with single LNBs into the mix. What switch will enable me to get four birds with my one receiver? Will the DishPro 34 switch be able to use the one cable from the DishPro500 Dual LNBF and two other lines from the Dish300's? I know very little about switches and their compabilities with the older LNB's.

I'm sumwhat new at this, please help.

[skinerd]

Unless the 300 lnbf's are also DP, forget it.

[gunkysputter]

Both old 300 LNBFs are currently hooked up to 119 and 110 and curently working, the DP500Dual is to replace them with the olds pointed elsewhere. Does this mean that no switch is compatible with the old 300's and the newer DP's?

[skinerd]

Both old 300 LNBFs are currently hooked up to 119 and 110 and curently working, the DP500Dual is to replace them with the olds pointed elsewhere. Does this mean that no switch is compatible with the old 300's and the newer DP's?

Can't mix legacy and DP lnb's.

[gunkysputter]

Thank you very much for all your insightfulness, looks like I'll be looking for several more DP LNBFs to acomplish what I want to achieve.

[smilingjack]

For those of you who never have enough dishes pointed at enough satellites.

I bring you the infinite setup. Imagine being able to access every sat in the sky. Horizon to Horizon.

And with only 1 dish in your yard for neighbors to complain about.

Get the biggest dish you can find, an old 6’ or 8’ C band wouid do nicely.

Install the lna’s and lnb’s of your choice. Mount it on a pole, where it can move in a parabolic corve. (if you used an old C band set up it is already set up for this) and add two motors to drive the dish up / down – left / right. (factory made or supply house parts, they are easy to make)

Now with 1 dish you can surf from horizon to horizon and get EVERYBODY’s signals limited only by the LNA's/LNB's and Recievers you have.

P.S. in the old days this was the only way to get more than a dozen channels. Each sat had only a few transponders ( low solar power)and they only carried 2 channels each. If we wanted more channels we moved the dish to the next sat. First we did it manually then automatic units came out. The tech is old and still out there you can buy stuff to find and lock each sat automaticly. But it is cheap and easy to make yourself. (you can convert a dish, dish to do this)

Have fun, jack

[Crazy1_79]

For those of you who never have enough dishes pointed at enough satellites.

I bring you the infinite setup. Imagine being able to access every sat in the sky. Horizon to Horizon.

And with only 1 dish in your yard for neighbors to complain about.

Get the biggest dish you can find, an old 6’ or 8’ C band wouid do nicely.

Install the lna’s and lnb’s of your choice. Mount it on a pole, where it can move in a parabolic corve. (if you used an old C band set up it is already set up for this) and add two motors to drive the dish up / down – left / right. (factory made or supply house parts, they are easy to make)

Now with 1 dish you can surf from horizon to horizon and get EVERYBODY’s signals limited only by the LNA's/LNB's and Recievers you have.

P.S. in the old days this was the only way to get more than a dozen channels. Each sat had only a few transponders ( low solar power)and they only carried 2 channels each. If we wanted more channels we moved the dish to the next sat. First we did it manually then automatic units came out. The tech is old and still out there you can buy stuff to find and lock each sat automaticly. But it is cheap and easy to make yourself. (you can convert a dish, dish to do this)

Have fun, jack

I see by your sig that you need a ccfd flash for a 4900 this is a CCFA flash, the first three letters match so you should not have any problems with it.

[smilingjack]

Got it. Thanks crazy. Boy have I heard that a lot of times, this will be the 19th flash I try. (or the 57th depending if you count fixes after raw flash is tried) I am rady to get out the soldering iron and re-heat the connections like coco suggested a few days ago.
this is an old stary, yes I have tried everything, all the steps. It just will not admit it is in the stream no matter what.

Jack

[Crazy1_79]

may be another problem than the flash. That is the closest on I had. I hope it gets done for you, I gaurantee it is a good flash.

[Chapster99]

Thank you very much for all your insightfulness, looks like I'll be looking for several more DP LNBFs to acomplish what I want to achieve.


Here's an alternative...

multilnbdish.com

[BirdieMod]

Basic switching is:
All switches must be either DP or legecy series, No mixing.
Run as many as you want, But only one of each type thus the ird can find them and control there function upon running chech switch.