Do I have the right lnb?

[billsatelliteb]

I am putting together a portable dish setup to use when I travel and am using parts from our home system, from a previous installation. before we went back to cable and now back to dish(long story:-()

Anyway, I have a Dish 500 dish with two LNB (P/N 214-5100-402) hooked to our dp 301 receiver.

I have hooked up to ONE of the two lnbs aimed, az, el and skew according to the on screen instructions. Used a "satellite finder." I get 119 very clearly but can not seem to lock onto 110. I am wondering if I should have some kind of switch between the lnb and the receiver or what. I followed the advice of one online source and ran the switch check, after I had acquired a satellite signal (119). I think I must be leaving out something to not be able to lock on to 110.

Any suggestions, thanks, bill b.

 

[KE4EST]

What you have are legacy LNBS, so it would work, but you need a SW-21 Switch, to get both Sats.

 

[billsatelliteb]

What you have are legacy LNBS, so it would work, but you need a SW-21 Switch, to get both Sats.

Great. Thanks for the information. I presume that I would run one cable from each LNB to the switch? that would give me both sats.

thanks, again, bill b.

 

[BobaBird]

The LNBs are probably legacy. They should be marked "Digital LNBF" and not have a large dp logo. Then hook up the SW21 as you described and run a Check Switch.

 

[billsatelliteb]

Check switch ordered

The LNBs are probably legacy. They should be marked "Digital LNBF" and not have a large dp logo. Then hook up the SW21 as you described and run a Check Switch.

Thanks, the lnbf s do say "digital" and no dp logo. So I have ordered an SW21 and will hook 'em up and run check switch and should be good to go.
thanks, bill b.