My second television is in another room and is about 30' from the main unit (625). Over the last year the signal has gotten harder to pick up to change the channel. Now most of the time I have to get directly in front of the receiver to change the channel on the second TV. Sometimes I can be 25' from it and pick up the signal. Is this the way it is supposed to happen--it works and then after a year or so (maybe two?) it stops? It isn't any fun to have to keep leaving a room to change a channel. Dish called a few weeks ago and when I told the lady said buy new batteries. But it is not the batteries. Then she said buy a new remote. It is not the remote is it?
Dish DVR 625 Remote Signal
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you can "pig tail" the antenna.... just get two cheap dual splitters - get two short coax pieces like 1 foot long and unplug the antenna from the receiver. Then screw in one coax to the antenna port and another to TV2 then to the dual outputs of the splitter and the TV2 line from the triplexor you likely have into the IN port of the splitter. It will work the other way so don't worry about that. Next you take the other splitter and screw the antenna into one of the outputs of it, go to the TV2 and take the cable to it and put into the IN port and use another short run like 1 foot from the other outport to the TV.
This will now place the antenna right behind your TV2 rather than trying to get thru that 30' distance to pick up. The signal is basically stacked into the same line you are sending TV thru from the receiver.
This will now place the antenna right behind your TV2 rather than trying to get thru that 30' distance to pick up. The signal is basically stacked into the same line you are sending TV thru from the receiver.
Is a triflexor that splitter thing on the back of the main receiver with three wires going to it and one going out?
Uhf remotes are cheap on ebay try a different remote. I know mine has bounced many times off the floor and is still working fine. That doesn't mean the next time it is sat on or dropped won't be the one that kills it.
I don't have any real reason to think it is the remote. It hasn't been dropped and this problem has been a gradual thing. Don't have a problem buying a new one if I knew that is what it is. I also have another receiver in the bedroom that's never been used. Can I use the remote to that one or does it have to be reprogrammed?
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This is correct and should help, but if you relocate the antenna, make sure tv2 is modulated to ch73 (menu, 6, 1, 5). Otherwise you end up breaking federal law by broadcasting through the antenna, and it's just not worth that hassle.
