FTA rcvr / Dishnetwork rcvr. Can they share multiswitch?

[kpeters59]

I posted the end of this previously but don't have any respones so I figure I better start a fresh thread. :mozilla_foot:

I probably can get by with just Al Jazeera and ART from DishNetwork, although if I can get the SuperDish fully functional I would do that. Would I need a 4 LNB switch?(duh!) I may remember that the current switch has pass through ports. That won't help...will it?


I have 3 fta receivers set up now. The Fortec dish gave me a little trouble with the bracket carriage bolts not 'setting' in there holes properly. Not sure if it's the bracket or the bolts. The Lifetime box seems like a perfectly OK unit. Especially for the money. Is there something more I could want from a fta receiver that I'm not getting with these boxes?

However, the main reason I did this install was because Kuwait TV was dropped from DishNetwork. It seemed that Kuwait TV was not on IA5 either. However, it does seem to be coming in. Maybe it's a different channel? But the real issue seems to be that Al Jazeera and ART are not available fta. So is it possible to leave the DishNetwork set up as well as the fta dish and run them into a switch and get both. This is a condo and running new coax to the rooms is not an option. I have 4 coax runs from outside going to the central coax distribution point. Worst case scenario maybe being leave a fta receiver and a DishNetwork receiver at the distribution point and modulate there outputs onto the coax, as they need to share with Cable TV/RoadRunner/Digital Phone.

So can I somehow switch a fta dish and a DishNetwork dish? Maybe using the loop through of the Fortec box?

Thanks for the help.

-kp

[kpeters59]

I have learned that the DN Arabic channels are mainly on 121 and that is a FSS satellite(whatever that is?) and uses linear LNB's. And as it turns out I could only get the all the transponders by going through the DP34 switch. Straight into the DN rcvr did not fully function. The 121 fss lnb only has one output and when discovered by the DP34 shows as a "feed". I'm wonder if that other switch would switch the fss satellite?

Anyway, I think I figured out that there isn't really a way to make it all work.

Thanks,

-kp