Dish Pro Plus Twin and Birdog Meter

dbajaer

SatelliteGuys Family
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Oct 27, 2005
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This question has been posted in the past and never answered fully. How to read the DPP Twin with a Birdog? I know the DPP does not switch until it connected to a receiver, there are some rumors that one can not use terminal one to connect to the meter. I am not having any luck seeing 119 on my meter. This comes about because we are a bit South and can not see the 110 Sat but still want to use the Twin to marry to a Dish Pro dual and get both 119 and 129 with a DPP signal so as to use only one line to the dual receiver. We hang the DPP twin onto a larger dish and its very hard to just swap LNBs so as to use a single or normal twin to check signal. Has anyone found a way to read the 119 signal with the Birdog from the DPP Twin?
 
Before I upgraded my meter to a super buddy,I always carried a dishpro single to point at 119.

The bird dog dose not do well with dpp equipment .
 
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Great replies! I did some testing today on a rooftop, found if I isolate the DPP from both receiver and second dual, I can read 119 on the middle connection or I guess it would be #2. I could not exist without my Birdog Plus, I have found I can drain the battery very fast when hooking up to the output from the dual and DPP, and in fact carry a second battery as a back up. Trying to check signal at the receiver is best done with a switch test...I have three Birdogs each a newer version, the Plus is a great tool...
 

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