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lherndo
07-28-2004, 02:41 PM
Say I wanted FTA to pickup 110, 119 and the BEV with NFL. Do I need 3 seperate dishes? Or the switch with 3 LNB's all pointed in the proper direction?

I have a DAVE dish pointed at 101 with only 1 LNB. Thanks for any help.

Morbidfury
07-28-2004, 02:52 PM
Say I wanted FTA to pickup 110, 119 and the BEV with NFL. Do I need 3 seperate dishes? Or the switch with 3 LNB's all pointed in the proper direction?

I have a DAVE dish pointed at 101 with only 1 LNB. Thanks for any help.

If you have a dish, like dish 500, that will get 110 and 119 then you are good for them two, however if you want to reach a bird plus those you will need a seperate dish. I have not tried the T55 superdish or others in that line but they might work. Regardless you will need a Diseq switch (No sw21 or such) to get all of them concurently. If you want to drop a few bucks you can buy a motor to turn a single dish to get each bird as you need it :yes:

lherndo
07-28-2004, 03:07 PM
like if you had a Dish setup. I'm guessing if you subscribed to dish you would be picking up both 110 and 119 at the same time off the same dish? But a seperate dish would be needed to pickup BEV? And BEV is where the NFL sunday ticket is right?

Morbidfury
07-28-2004, 03:13 PM
Yes that is what I am saying....glad to see you understood because I was confusing myself trying to type it...LOL
However keep in mind that Most of the new dish 500s have the built in sw21.

lherndo
07-28-2004, 04:16 PM
Yes that is what I am saying....glad to see you understood because I was confusing myself trying to type it...LOL
However keep in mind that Most of the new dish 500s have the built in sw21.

Does that work, it only has one LNB. Or were you saying to watch out when I get my second dish, that it may have the built in sw21?

Morbidfury
07-28-2004, 05:24 PM
Does that work, it only has one LNB. Or were you saying to watch out when I get my second dish, that it may have the built in sw21?
Single LNBs do not have a sw21 in it. If you have a newer Dish 500 or Twin LNB, they come with them built in. So if you have a single dtv lnb, no problem with switches.