add a fixed dish to existing h2h dish?

[orac]

I have a dish on an SG-2100 with a universal linear LNB plus a circular LNB strapped to the side of the linear LNB. My FTA viewing is mainly on G10R (123W) and AMC3 (87W), and when not watching TV, I enjoy listening to the FTA Sirius radio on Dish's Echostar 7 (119W).

Now I'm tired of using the motor if I don't have to when I switch between the radio and TV stations, so would like to add a fixed dish for the radio stations. Would just like confirmation that it would work with my Lifetime receiver, with just a 4x1 diseqc switch between the motor and the 3 LNBs (2 on the dish that moves, the 3rd on the fixed dish). Am I correct that setting the "positioner" option to "disable" for Echo7 in the Lifetime's setup menu is enough to prevent the motorized dish from moving when I choose a Sirius radio station (i.e. the LNB on the fixed dish), even though the diseqc switch is downstream of the motor? Does this idea have any other possible consequences?

As far as equipment goes (looking to buy used, and cheap), any old DirecTV or Dish or StarChoice dish should work providing it has a standard DSS circular LNB, right?

Thanks.
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Neil

[pmb1010]

Originally Posted by orac

I have a dish on an SG-2100 with a universal linear LNB plus a circular LNB strapped to the side of the linear LNB. My FTA viewing is mainly on G10R (123W) and AMC3 (87W), and when not watching TV, I enjoy listening to the FTA Sirius radio on Dish's Echostar 7 (119W).

Now I'm tired of using the motor if I don't have to when I switch between the radio and TV stations, so would like to add a fixed dish for the radio stations. Would just like confirmation that it would work with my Lifetime receiver, with just a 4x1 diseqc switch between the motor and the 3 LNBs (2 on the dish that moves, the 3rd on the fixed dish). Am I correct that setting the "positioner" option to "disable" for Echo7 in the Lifetime's setup menu is enough to prevent the motorized dish from moving when I choose a Sirius radio station (i.e. the LNB on the fixed dish), even though the diseqc switch is downstream of the motor? Does this idea have any other possible consequences?

As far as equipment goes (looking to buy used, and cheap), any old DirecTV or Dish or StarChoice dish should work providing it has a standard DSS circular LNB, right?

Thanks.
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Neil

I doing the same thing with fixed dish and SD312M motor. Yes you set the sat setup for that particular sat to "disabled" and when you change to that channel, the dish stays where it's at for previous channel. The Diseqc switch does it's thing, and picks the right LNBF you want to use.

You should be able to find a single LNB dish for next to nothing, ask some friends. most have upgraded to the multisat setups (ie Dish 500) so there's tons of the single lnb units around.

[Iceberg]

That's what I'm doing

I have a motorized dish on port 1 of switch
A line from Nimiq1 into port 2
A line from Dish119 into port 3
A line from another dish parked at 123 in port 4

Since I have a Dish subscription and an ExpressVu subscription, all I had to do was put dual LNB'd on 119 & 91 and run the lines

much easier than waiting for Dish to move from whereever it is (AMC6, SBS6, etc over to 123)

[swampthang7]

would you mind sharing what is carried on the 123 brd?...and its name;tia.

[orac]

Originally Posted by swampthang7

would you mind sharing what is carried on the 123 brd?...and its name;tia.

Galaxy 10R - see http://www.lyngsat.com/g10r.html
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Neil