DirecTV/SWM/SD DVR

ken burke wrote:
Is the SWM dish heaver than the 18 SD dish?
ken

Yes, it's a full array dish which is larger and capable of receiving multiple birds. And there is the additional hardware for setting the skew.

ken burke,

You can purchase additional coax. When/if I get a portable SWM dish it will include 50' and 100' coax and I would use both when required. The stated limit is 150'. Make sure you get quality coax and connectors that will support the higher SWM bandwidth.

FYI From our DTV installer: DTV is now using high quality RG6 coax, L1RC SMS Ultimate compression fittings and barrel connectors HF-81 with a yellow insert. The Genie uses additional coax bandwidth so this equipment is recommended. Our 8 year old compression fittings installed at home by DTV can have a coax shield contact problem and ours were all replaced by DTV when we upgraded to SWM.

The DTV installer also said that they no longer ship equipment to a user because there were to many problems with faulty installations.

I'd guess that if you buy the equipment elsewhere and then need DTV help it will be on your dime.

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They usually do not provide a tripod but rather a non-penetrating roof mount. If you need more than 20 feet of cable, drop by Ace, Lowe's or Home Depot and grab yourself an extra 50 (or a couple of 50's) and hand it to the installer.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
They usually do not provide a tripod but rather a non-penetrating roof mount. If you need more than 20 feet of cable, drop by Ace, Lowe's or Home Depot and grab yourself an extra 50 (or a couple of 50's) and hand it to the installer.

Bill, tell me more about that non-penetrating roof mount. Many times a roof mount would has made setting up easier than a tri-pod. Once I had to run a cable across a park road to get a view above the trees.

Imagine a metal grid on the ground with space to place 6 concrete cinder blocks and a metal pole rising from the center. That's a big heavy unit but it works very well until it's time to move.

Oh, your post says roof mount. You don't put that on the roof do you?

Bill.Satellite wrote:

DesertFiver wrote:
Exactly...

Not quite.

Interesting statement because this is EXACTLY what I used when I had the same SD DVR. One 18in dish, 2 lnb, 1 multi-switch and 4 RG6 cables.
Two cables to each receiver.
I used that setup for 2 years and sold the MH with it working EXACTLY.

This system was EXACTLY what was installed in my home by Directv.

I said that because he would also have to run 2 additional coax cables so just adding the switch does not solve the problem....exactly.... More work would need to be done.