16 rx legacy dish 500

[chellesman]

I am in Alaska. We have to use 2 antennas for a dish 500 system. I need to take an existing legacy dish 300 and upgrade it to a legacy dish 500.the system currently uses a 16 way multiswitch. my question is....Can I utilize the existing sytem, then add two cascaded(with high freq's)sms281's(connected to new antenna), and then tie together to the legacy recievers with 16 sw21 switches?.the reason for two 8 ways is I cannot get another 16 way legacy in time for this one.It's a lot of money in switches ,and I don't know if it's even possible for it to work..

 

[chellesman]

or if any1 has any other ideas on how to tie together 16 recievers in a dish 500 legacy system??? I know that i cannot cascade 4 sw44's and cant think of any other possibilitys besides the one above.

 

[Mr Tony]

switch to DishPro

Put a DP Dual on each dish and use 4 DP34 switches. They can be cascaded for 16 outputs

 

[chellesman]

the majority of recievers are older legacy recievers..so it rules out dishpro.

 

[Mr Tony]

oooof...then the best thing would be to get another 2x16 multiswitch and 16 sw21's

 

[chellesman]

thank you