Connect DTV H24 to 18" round dish
This has been discussed before but here is my experience. H24 is hooked up for HD at home with a dish separate from the house. It uses a SWM device. I had previously used a simple SD receiver in t...
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Still won't work. There is only one connector on the outside of the trailer for that receiver. It must be switched between the HD dish at home and the SD dish when camping. Thus there is only one cable from the dish on the inside of the trailer and it must go either to the SWM or the receiver. It could be done your way by adding another connector to the outside if the trailer but that is not going to happen. So now draw it with only one connector from the dish. Can't be done can it? Much easier to build a bypass switch (maybe an hour to build) and make two short RG6 connectors to go with it. Less than $5 all up with stuff from the junk box.
