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    Need to run 2 recievers from 1 cable. How?

    Someone brought up temporarily having multiple TVs in the same room for something like Sunday Ticket earlier in the thread. Not sure if all ST are on the same transponder though.
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    Need to run 2 recievers from 1 cable. How?

    Exactly. If the intent is to watch the same channel on both receivers then it should work. In addition, under your scenario with ESPN, can you not watch any other channel on Receiver II that belongs to the same set that ESPN belongs to? I imagine there are quite a few channels on the same set...
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    Need to run 2 recievers from 1 cable. How?

    Just throwing this out there since I do not know all the inner workings of the receivers, but if you get a splitter that passes DC on one port (connected to receiver A) and blocks DC on the other port (connected to receiver B) and you have adequate signal from the LNB to overcome splitter loss...
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    Grounding question

    My question was regarding this statement. It lead me to question whether or not the poster meant that ground rods every 20 feet was required (I didn't find it in the NEC). I know of this practice being used for lightning protection (I've used it myself to ground radio towers), but as one...
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    Grounding question

    Can you explain the reason for needing to install ground rods every 20 feet? If the intent is to bond the antenna and utility ground together, that can be accomplished with the buried wire (#2 solid tinned copper is great stuff), but I don't see how the ground rods will assist in the bonding...
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    DirecTV's Plans for 2006/2007

    Glad I decided to read this message thread about DirecTV's plans.