DirecTV HD / Slimline for the RV

2oldman wrote:

philh wrote:
No self respecting engineer would ever follow those instructions

Which ones?

That is whey we field techs often had to make a product really work. Sometimes it was "ready, fire, aim" for the engineers. There was no way for them to test all possibilities and once in the field there were thousands of techs versus a small group of engineers.

We had a tremendous feedback system to the engineers and they would literally stop the assembly line if we found an issue.

But often, the leading cause of difficulties was not finding the one sentence in a 240 page manual that held the answer. Much like a Monaco manual.

We used to say that reading the book would cause you to lose your amateur standing. Lots of fun in those days with leading edge technology coming out constantly.

philh wrote:
No self respecting engineer would ever follow those instructions

Which ones?

YC 1 wrote:
If it doesn't work, read the book.
If it still doesn't work, FOLLOW IT !

Words of wisdom from my High School electronic teacher. He was a very smart man.

No self respecting engineer would ever follow those instructions

Bill knows.. as usual.

The splitter should not be necessary if you only plan to use 1 satellite receiver. Assuming you are using a tripod mounted antenna with a SWM LNB then it should only require the coax running from the one and only output from the LNB to the Power Inserter and from the Power Inserter to the receiver.

If it doesn't work, read the book.
If it still doesn't work, FOLLOW IT !

Words of wisdom from my High School electronic teacher. He was a very smart man.

Perhaps you didn't bother to read the instructions. :)

The PI (power inserter) and splitter is needed to power the LNB on the Slimline dish...assuming of course that's what you have.