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Originally Posted by CROSSBOLT
Hi, everybody! Been a while but I got busy. Got a switch diEsq for FTA and Directv and then tried to get both systems to work on one cable one at a time with no luck. Did I try to do something that is not possible? The main idea is I have two dishes, one Directv and the other FTA. One cable from the antenna farm to the receiver stack. I got no response by cabling from the Merc II "second recvr" coax connection to the Hughes DTV rcvr so got a coax A-B switch I have not put in yet. The FTA system from Sadoun works great once you guys got done with training me and the Hughes always worked great. Now I just want to switch back and forth while leaving my fat rear in the motor home! Any ideas?
Karl |
NOt sure about the A-B switch. There are different kinds of those.
But relative to using the
Mercury passthru, that can definately be done, however it gets a bit cumbersome. When the power supply on one of my DTVs went bad, I hooked it up to the passthru of my old Lifetime, and it works fine, however you have to control the polarity, and the satellite (if you have a multi-sat system) with the FTA receiver. Ie I could tune 202 for CNN, and 204 for HN fine, but couldn't tune 203 or 207 unless I'd switch polarity on the FTA receiver, and if I wanted to switch sats to watch local channels, it got real complicated. I had to first tune to CNN, wait a while, then turn on 22KHz to turn on the other sat, and tune that channel, and sometimes it would work sometimes not, but eventually I'd get it working.
It was a pain to use, but you COULD use it without getting up out of the chair.
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