I have a question about hooking up
Viewsat Ultra and a
Dish Network VIP 211 receiver. I have a dish sat 500 with a
twin/dual lnb (110/119) and another dish sat 500 with a
single lnb (61.5). The RG6 from both dishes are connected to a
SW21. The output of
SW21 is connected to the
sat end of a Holland Electronics DPD2 5-2150 MHZ switch. My antenna (for local
HDTV) is connected to the DPD2
VHF/UHF end.
A single RG6 runs from the
in/out of the DPD2 down to the TV. This RG6 then connects to the
in/out end of another DPD2 switch with a RG6 lead running from the
VHF/UHF end of the DPD2 to
8VSB(TV antenna in) of the
VIP 211 and another RG6 running from the
sat end of the DPD2 to the
satellite in of the
VIP 211. This setup was done by Dish Network and everything works fine.
Now I want to connect the VS Ultra to the single RG6 going to the
VIP 211. The
VIP 211 is connected to
vid1 of TV (HDTV) and the
VS Ultra is connected to
vid3 of TV. This way, I can have both boxes on and I just need to swap between
vid1 and
vid3. I was told to use an A/B switch but I can't find one with one in and two out. I tried splitters but the sats can't be found (always searching).
I received a 4-IN-1
DISEqC switch with the VS Ultra.