What's new

Please help with switch 64 and Dish 6000 receiver setup! (1 Viewer)

Manuel

Stunt Coordinator
Joined
Jun 29, 1999
Messages
199
First, let me get this off my chest: Dish customer service reps have no clue!! Ok, now that I am past that, what I need is some setup advise/suggestions.
I have 2 dishes set up on my roof. I have a Dish 500 w1th dual LNB's for the 119 and 110 feed. I have another Dish 500 with one LNB which has only 1 out. I do not have another LNB with dual outs. My problem is this: As I understand it, I must connect 2 cables from each feed to the switch. However, for the 61.5 or 148 feed, my LNB only has 1 out. I tried to split the signal using an old splitter I had and that did not work. I tried using a swith 21 and that did not work either. Both times when I would "check switch", it would only recognize the "evens" on the 119 and 110 but both on the 61.5. However, I would get an "error 002" message when I tried to watch almost any channel.
Is there something that I am doing wrong? Could someone please enlighten me with how to fix my problem? I almost wish I had not bought the 6000 receiver. Thanks
------------------
You've never worked in the private sector. They expect results.
 

Robert_J

Senior HTF Member
Joined
Aug 22, 2000
Messages
8,350
Location
Mississippi
Real Name
Robert
Is there something that I am doing wrong?
Yes. You answered your own question earlier. "As I understand it, I must connect 2 cables from each feed to the switch." What you probably don't know is that you can't just split a single output from an LNB. You must have a dual LNB.
-Robert
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Sign up for our newsletter

and receive essential news, curated deals, and much more







You will only receive emails from us. We will never sell or distribute your email address to third party companies at any time.

Forum statistics

Threads
357,034
Messages
5,129,188
Members
144,286
Latest member
acinstallation172
Recent bookmarks
0
Top