Well I spoke further to the lady that let me have the old system. It seems her son had some sort of wierd satellite service provided by a local cable company, (it was their
cable line up, but available to more rural
customers) and had a
dish 500 hooked up as well.
Heres and idea of the setup he had.
Cable Co/ sat (Old primestar) 2 coax two
multiswitch-----coax to diplexer----one line in his room
Dish 500-----same diplexer (hooked to UHF/VHF side)
then some how had primestar box linked to his d/n box with apparatus
and had that one line hooked to that apparatus. Don't know what that apparatus was, it was nowhere to be found. (son moved out year ago)
very curious as to how it was done.
Can anyone give me any advice as to how to integrate my primestar with my Fortec FTA system? what kind of device do I need? can I use my multiswitch?
Oh and wejones, the lady said that the cable
installers of thier sat sys. said that it was required for the h/v polorized lnb's.
i'll put a link on here of the only pics I have of the primestar i have, so check it out. its about 802.11 IEEE wireless integration os the dish, but thats the only pics I have of it. I considered useing the dish to form a network, only problem, can't see any buddys roofs from here. so I will have to go with grabbing more sat signals that my Fortec can't see.
Use a Surplus Primestar Dish as an IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking Antenna
there is a close up of the mount. check it out.