Use RG-6 cable and compression ends and your good to go.
do as we say; not as we do....BBC comes standard with POS crimp fitting, not to mention the lead cable that's kinked in half. who would have thunk there would be problems?
OTA is now incompatible
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do as we say; not as we do....BBC comes standard with POS crimp fitting, not to mention the lead cable that's kinked in half. who would have thunk there would be problems?
Heres a possible option for you, Why not hook your D* and your occasional cable up to a A-B box and flip it from one to the other when needed.
This way neither signal would interfere with the other and you could change when needed quickly .
Jimbo
LOL my wife was like "WHY YOU NEED A $3k laptop?!" I said "honey its HD" she rolled her eyes and said "you and your HD" hahahaha
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jimbo you wouldn't know the recommended voltage of the winegard OTA antenna DC would ya?
Sorry, but No I do not.
Jimbo
How true, when I first got mine I looked at them and said "What is this ?"
total garbage ....
Matt, thats a good idea, I'll have to look into that when I get some time.
Anyone notice that the cable itself turns in the casing ?
I'm figuring that , that cannot be good for them.
Jimbo
In my situation that woulda put the B-Band converter outside. I mentioned a thread here that said it could go switch-side I think it was by Matt actually. The tech still went ahead and ran new lines straight from my OTA ant to my DVR's.
I would have too(run a new line). Though others swear it works flawlessly, I personally don’t think it could be so easy. Guess time will tell.
What would you do if you had multiple HR20's. Would you use something like a splitter on the OTA before going to the diplexor>
Well at first I told him what the order was for because his work order was blank. I told him D* had him come out to run direct lines off of my OTA ant to my HR20's because the Diplexers kill the OTA signal. He said "do what?" I repeated and said "so they have you running direct lines from the OTA antenna" he replied "thats not gonna happen"
He asked about which tuner I had the b band hooked up to. I told him Tuner 2... he said theres the problem, it needs to be tuner 1. I told him it made no difference when I tryed it but we can try again sure. I hooked it up on tuner 1 and even did a reset. No dice and then he called his supervisor and found out that a mojority of their calls are fixing antenna lines to fix the issues with the 2nd tuner sats not showing up.
I told him there was a report that the B Band can be moved to satellite side instead of receiver side and it would work but that would put the B band outside.. I don't think he wanted to experiment and decided the direct line was the fastest most reliable option.
Not to be too much of a dummy here....but I've not been on in a few days. Is this thread saying that since we got the new HDs that our OTA won't work?
Well, if I do the D* installer did it. I've not had HD since the launch as I've been having new floors put in the house. I'll know about my system tonight though!!! Along with several others here, D* paid to put my OTA antenna on the house and run the cables. They might be making a return visit....I hope not though.
There's been many a post about folks not getting the new 103(b) channels and they find a diplexor on the line and they were installed by a D* installer, looks like all of them didn't get the word.
D*, though being the disputed “HD leader” is definitely the un-disputed “non-communication leader”. As many in this forum have mentioned, when it comes to communicating, D* sucks. Think its hard getting accurate info being a sub, try being a tech! As a tech, I was only informed that the new birds would be using the frequencies truncated by diplexers about a day before installing the new 5 LNB dishes. How long do you think they knew? I could go on and on about the “oh well, let the tech deal with it” philosophy but I will spare you.
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I found out last summer, D* had a training video up on the private network channels and anyone could see them. They also had one on phone line installations and HR20 installs.
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