Dish 1000, adding a 3rd Receiver

[rtchin]

Hi, I have Dish 1000 with 2 receivers. I was thinking about adding a 3rd receiver. How would I do this? I checked out the dish/lnb. i have only two wires coming out of the dish and into the house. I know that I can't just use a splitter to split one of the lines. Is there a way to do this? There aren't any open ports on the twin lnbs, 129 is going to the twin, two come out of the twin and into the house.

 

[boba]

What do you have for receivers currently? You have a Dish Pro Plus Twin now and 2 dual tuner receivers is the maximum it is designed to handle. You will need to add a switch if you have dual tuner receivers now you will need a DPP44 switch.

 

[rtchin]

i have two receivers now, vip 211, and 381. i want to add another sd receiver like the 381.

i checked the lnbs again. i have a dish pro dual in the 129 slot and a dish pro plus twin for 110/119. there are only two lines coming out into the house.

thanks for any help.

 

[Bama Mac]

i have two receivers now, vip 211, and 381. i want to add another sd receiver like the 381.

i checked the lnbs again. i have a dish pro dual in the 129 slot and a dish pro plus twin for 110/119. there are only two lines coming out into the house.

thanks for any help.

You will need a DP34 switch. Currently the DP dual lnb is feeding into the DPP-twin lnb's input port. When adding the 34 switch you will need to run a cable straight from the dual to the 34 switch. The proper way to do it would be to have all 3 lines coming from the dish to pass through the ground block then to the 34 switch. Then the 34 switch will give you 4 output ports to feed the receivers.

 

[rtchin]

thanks for the info. is there a distance requirement to the switch? right now, my dish is on the roof, ground block is in the crawl space about 20 feet below.

 

[RandallA]

200 ft. from dish to receiver for Dish Pro.

 

[srs913]

200 is max, for best results, keep it under 150

 

[rtchin]

ok, so 129, 119, 110 all into a ground block directly, then all into the dp34, then to the 3 receivers?

thanks for the help guys.

 

[boba]

If your going to pay for an additional receiver fee why not get another 211 instead of a rebadged 811?

 

[RandallA]

ok, so 129, 119, 110 all into a ground block directly, then all into the dp34, then to the 3 receivers?

thanks for the help guys.

Sounds right. You can go a little over 200 ft. if you need to, it all depends on how good the RG6 cable is.