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Old 06-19-2009, 04:08 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Is there a switch which will allow the use of more than four independent receivers using the same dish? Thx.
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Old 06-19-2009, 05:45 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Is there a switch which will allow the use of more than four independent receivers using the same dish? Thx.
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I haven't had dish for a couple of years, but I always thought that the DirecTV dish had a 4-way (output) multiswitch inside it. Jut a thought.
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I haven't had dish for a couple of years, but I always thought that the DirecTV dish had a 4-way (output) multiswitch inside it. Jut a thought.
And you can connect an 8way switch to the 4 way. The old style SD versions of DirecTV you could double outputs of the dish with a special splitter.
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And you can connect an 8way switch to the 4 way. The old style SD versions of DirecTV you could double outputs of the dish with a special splitter.
I see, I had a completely different idea on my mind, looked it up, and was wrong.
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