Portable automatic antennas
Looking to set up for DISH. Trying to decide which DISH antenna to get. I have 2 TVs in the TT. Would rather have only one coaxial to supply the 2 tvs splitting at the TT to 2 receivers rather than...
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chrisncary wrote:AllegroD wrote:scubacouple wrote:
OK, thanks for the input. I thought I had read about a dish antenna that only required one cable to support 2 receiver/tvs, but may have missed the part about watching the same channel on both. The winegard X2 sounds like a possibility.
on bold. No. Each sat. antenna/dish output can only be controlled by 1 receiver. I do not believe Direct TV can do it either as it is a limitation of the antenna/dish. X2 with 2 receivers will work.
DirecTV absolutely can do it - and I'm watching it right now. DVR with a wireless video bridge connected at the DVR will run 5 more TVs. And no, it does not require a network or phone connection. Everything works except on demand.
That requires SWM. None of the portable automatic antennas (stipulated by the OP in the heading) are SWM compatible. You CAN run 2 coax cables from the antenna to a SWM8/Power Inserter, then from that point run just 1 cable, but the 2 cables from the antenna to the SWM8 are required.
