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quarque
Explorer
May 19, 2014

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 dual operation it does not work. The second unit on the AUX port always comes up to the Scan screen and I am stuck because it can't really do a scan (nor supposed to). How do you bypass the Scan screen? I have tried resetting and power cycling and everything I can think of. So far neither Solid Signal nor KingDome have been any help. They just say "don't do a scan" but how?

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    Bill_Satellite
    Explorer II
    May 20, 2014
    You must first treat each receiver as an individual receiver. Connect one to the main port and follow the instructions for doing a Check Switch. Once this is complete you will start from scratch with the second receiver and get the correct Check Switch. You should now have 2 working receivers. However, the 2nd receiver will NEVER be able to watch ANY channel but will be a slave to the first receiver. You will be able to watch "many" different channels on this receiver but only channels which are being broadcast from the same satellite selected by the main receiver.

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