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Originally Posted by Debbi
I appreciate all the ideas. For now I have come up with an idea that's working for the time being. I am using the Personal Cable receiver to turn the dish, but I have the coax hooked up to the Fortec Classic. Apparently I'm not getting any analog stations, but I seem to be getting DVB.
I'll check into the receivers mentioned and maybe I can get a better setup. It appears that my polar rotor motor (I think that's what it's called) is only reeiving vertical but a friend thinks he has one for me. The only station my husband wants is RFD and it's horizontal of course, but I'm getting closer. Thanks again for the input. |
If you "slave" the DVB receiver as mentioned above, you can get both analog and digital. Two ways to do it, either run a "T" with DC block (some power passing Ts have the DC block built in), and run the side with the DC blocked to your DVB receiver and the other power passing port to your Uniden. You lose a little signal this way, and you have to use the Uniden to switch polarities for the DVB receiver (which you're probably doing now anyway).
The other way is to run the coax to the DVB receiver, and run the passthru from the DVB receiver to the coax input of the Uniden. This would probably give you less signal loss. I'd still recommend using a DC block between the Fortec and Uniden.
Re the subscription DCII, since you already have an analog receiver, you might be better off getting a 905 sidecar rather than a 922, since getting the 922 means scrapping your Uniden, while the sidecar allows you to use your current receiver, and the combination can do everything and possibly more, than the 922. I assume your Uniden has a built in VCII or VCRS module?