*Choice multi reciever question

[akowcenuk]

I have reviewed the articles and still have a question regarding Star Choice. I live in a condo in Puerto Vallarta Mexico. I have a line strung from the dish on the roof of the building to my unit. I have 2 recievers and they are the DSR505 HD and the DSR 317. I am try to connect both my receivers to the one line that I have coming into the condo. How do I do this? I have been reading about splitters and multi- switches and I am confused. Not a techinical person at all. Would appreciate the help as I told the only thing I can do is pay for another line to be brought down from the roof? Is this true or are they trying to get more moola out of me?

 

[QCK]

They probably do want your moola, but they are correct you do need a second line brought in. You cannot multi-switch one line into two. You could get an A/B switch where only one receiver would be active at one time but this is not normally recommended.

 

[akowcenuk]

then what is a splitter for?

 

[QCK]

Splitters work fine for cable but not for satellite. You would need a mutli-switch like the one in the attached picture which requires 4 inputs and will give you 8 outputs to properly get more feeds avaiable from your *C LNB. The 4 feeds are needed because you must have one of each of the following 13V no tone, 13V with a 22KHz tone, 18V no tone & 18V with a 22KHz tone. Once the multi-switch has all 4 it can only then properly spilt these into 8 or if you get a larger switch 16 out.

 

[1norcalman]

We faced a similar situation but with the Star Choice HD DVR. Two lines were necessary. It was a hassle but there was no way around it to get full service.