Can I use a slimline 3 dish with a HR 24 DVR (living room) and HR 25 HD Receiver (bedroom). The base of the LNB arm has 4 connectors, which one is used? Am I correct in my assumption that I will need a power inserter and a splitter to send the signal to the two receivers? What settings will I use for the receivers? I'm checking out tv4rv.com for the equipment to support and aim the dish.Thanks for your response.

Unless you outfit your rv with a SWM setup, you will need to run two separate coax cables from the dish then one directly to each receiver with no splitters. It doesn't matter which pigtail you use on the slimline dish. I run two HD receivers in my fiver and run two cables from the dish. One goes to the "satellite prep" feed to the living room TV receiver (direct run). The other cable runs from the dishto the "cable in" feed to the 2nd TV receiver. I had to modify the rv's factory coax wiring to isolate the "cable in" feed from the antenna amplifier for this to work.

kab449 wrote: Am I correct in my assumption that I will need a power inserter and a splitter to send the signal to the two receivers? What settings will I use for the receivers? .For a SWM dish, yes, the PI should come with its own special splitter. You can use one coax for the DVR instead of two using SWM. Setting=SWM3, dual tuner.

Is your bedroom receiver an H25? I don't believe there is an HR25. If it is an H25, that receiver requires a SWM setup. Which you could do, if you want. You'd probably want a SWM8 switch and then you'd need a power inserter for the SWM8. You'd plug all four wires from your dish - probably right at the dish - into the SWM8 and run one wire to your trailer. That one wire would plug into the power inserter, and the satellite output from the power inserter would plug into a 2- way SWM splitter; one output to each TV.Or, you could forget the SWM setup and run two outputs - any two - to the HR24; with the two inputs, you'd be able to watch one channel and record another (which will also work with one SWM input). But then your H25 won't be able to work.

One of mine is a HR23 the other is a HR700. The HR700 requires a b band converter. I use the slimline 3 multi switch setup.

I was planning, if the dish would work, to set up the SWM PI and splitter in the front compartment right aside of the convenience center where the cable runs to the living room and bedroom start. They are dedicated runs for satellite. The DVR is a HR 24 HD Receiver and the one I am putting in the bedroom is a HR 25 HD Receiver. I guess I only need a source for the Power Inserter and the DC pass splitter.

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mikestock
Explorer
May 07, 2013
Just for clarification: My HR24-200 would not communicate with the SWM without the PI, only the HR21-100. The voltage from the older model must be just over the threshold required by the SWM.
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
May 05, 2013
No worries. If he can't take yes for an answer then I am done! I should have quit when I said I was out earlier. I apologize to all for trying to make myself clear and I wish Mike the very best.
therink
Explorer
May 05, 2013
This thread has become man vs man and should be closed.
mikestock
Explorer
May 05, 2013
What ? No “(which he’s not using) or “Thanks for the ‘believe it or not’” and no dismissive Latin this time. Thanks.
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
May 05, 2013
This will be the last time I say this as 3 times is enough for anyone. I agree that you may be seeing what you are seeing. It's just not been seen before and I (me, myself, I) have not been able to duplicate it. That is not saying you are wrong!
mikestock
Explorer
May 05, 2013
The implication that I am not being truthful is confrontational and will not go without response, with no disparaging Latin adjectives.
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
May 05, 2013
I have read it ad nauseam, I just can't duplicate it. I even concede in the post above your last ("even if Mike is right") that you are seeing what you are seeing. I have SWM antenna but I also have a SWM receiver and the last setup I did with a SWM antenna and 2 standard receivers setup for SWM I also could not duplicate what you are seeing.
If you say it's working for you I could not be happier!
mikestock
Explorer
May 05, 2013
Bill. Please read carefully. I am in my fifth wheel right now. I have a modified smaller version of a Slimline which I made from a DISH 1000.2 reflector. I have set it up over a hundred times in the last four years. My LNB only has one RG6 port (not four) from which I run a wire to the PI and then a 4 way splitter with two of the ports capped. From the splitter I feed two DVR's. Now tell me that's not SWM. I know what SWM is. I simply stated that during trouble shooting what turned out to be a bad PI I connected the RG6 directly from the SWM to one of the DVR's and it worked. End of the story. Maybe somebody else has run into the same thing and maybe not, but it seems that no one here has tried it so until you do you can't really dispute it.
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
May 05, 2013
Oops, started to responded to the post.
Even if Mike is right, users of SWM receivers (which he is not using) would require the PI and any other receiver setup would make the PI recommended.
mikestock
Explorer
May 05, 2013
HR21-100 . Must be putting out more than 18v. Don't know how much under21v the SWM can tolerate.

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