2 Dish Network Receivers
Hi all, I have a Dish 500 system and I have it connected to the Sat In port of my 5th wheel trailer. I was wondering if it was possible to set up 2 receivers using the the one cable outlet from the...
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Bill.Winegard wrote:pritch272 wrote:
We have one cable from the Dish 500, it goes to a DP-Separator which splits into 2 inputs to the dual tuner receiver, which we use for 2 televisions, one in bedroom and one in the living room. Not sure if this helps the OP or not.
That's quite different. With Dish you can run one cable to a Dish Separator and run both of those connections to ONE DVR or dual tuner box. However, you cannot do the same thing and power 2 separate receivers.
it just dawned on me that I have one of those setups with a dish 625? one wire comes in to the dual receiver and the same wire shoots it back to were the wire runs to the second TV. I questioned the installer why he was only running one wire into the dual receiver cause it seemed strange.
bumpy
