King Dome KD5500 with 2 Dish receivers - how?
I bought a new KD5500 and 2 new VIP211K receivers from Solid Signal. You are supposed to be able to run both at the same time. I CAN run each one individually but when I follow the KD5500 manual for...
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OK, I should have looked up the specific model number. The KD5500 is a unique King Controls antenna. It uses the same Dish Mobile Protocol as a Tailgator but inside a roof mounted dome. I know the Tailgator is setup for one receiver only but in reading about this dome it does say it supports 2 receivers.
Have you read the instructions on pages 18-19 about how that 2nd receiver operates? You must disconnect the 2nd receiver and do a check switch with no coax connected. Save the resulting search (nothing found). Now connected the receiver with the antenna pointed and working on the first receiver. Reset the 2nd receiver and allow the program guide to download. You should now be able to watch any channel being broadcast from the same satellite that the first receiver is pointing toward. If the front receiver changes channels and that channel is located on a different satellite the 2nd receiver will lose all programming until it is reset and you wait for it to download a new program guide for that satellite.
Here is a link to that owners manual if you want to read the step by step details. It is very well documented.
http://kingcontrols.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/PENDING-REVISION-21507-KD5500-Rev-A-Owners-Manual-01-04-13.pdf
Have you read the instructions on pages 18-19 about how that 2nd receiver operates? You must disconnect the 2nd receiver and do a check switch with no coax connected. Save the resulting search (nothing found). Now connected the receiver with the antenna pointed and working on the first receiver. Reset the 2nd receiver and allow the program guide to download. You should now be able to watch any channel being broadcast from the same satellite that the first receiver is pointing toward. If the front receiver changes channels and that channel is located on a different satellite the 2nd receiver will lose all programming until it is reset and you wait for it to download a new program guide for that satellite.
Here is a link to that owners manual if you want to read the step by step details. It is very well documented.
http://kingcontrols.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/PENDING-REVISION-21507-KD5500-Rev-A-Owners-Manual-01-04-13.pdf
