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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
.... You may be better off looking into the loop through feature on your receivers. ....
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Good point, but again this will require the 2nd receiver in the chain needs to be watching the dish that the 1st receiver is tuned to. But if this is OK, ie if you don't need to watch both rooms at the same time on different sats, then this might be a good option.
However there is yet another option, which can relate to the above. What I do, is use these Radio Shack pyramid shaped IR remote extenders. I have a couple sets of them, so that I have IR transmitters in several rooms, and IR receivers in a couple rooms., and they also have rf versions of this sort of thing.
Basically, I have most of my sat receivers down in the basement, and can control them from either the living room or bedroom. Doing it this way, you'll be able to move the dish from either room, provided that your two receivers aren't the same (I run into this a bit, because I have 3 Fortec receivers, and the remote for one of them controls 2 of them, but the other 2 remotes don't affect the others, so it sometimes results in remote conflicts). But the way I do it is to not have sat receivers in each room, but instead have centrally located receivers that feed video to each room. How well this works will depend upon how far it is from the centrally located point to each room, and what kind of inputs your TVs have. If your TVs use A/V RCA connectors, I've been able to get away with 50' cable runs, but ran into issues when I extended this to 75'. If you're using ch3/4 rf to either TV, you can go a bit further. I'm not sure how far component inputs will go, none of mine go more than 10' or so. But in my case, the TV in my bedroom is very old, so I just run RF lines to it, and have the composite and component lines shorter going to my living room main TV. But I can watch and control multiple receivers from either room, when the receivers are in a 3rd room.