SD Receiver With A Slimline Dish??

[Rebel Racing]

Hi Guys,

My Parents vacation home has recently been upgraded to an HD DVR receiver and the correct dish (Slimline)--installed by DTV. Each year we take our old second SD receiver to their place (after they have left and taken home their receiver) and hook it up. Of cource I call DTV and tell them about the temp move. In the past it worked fine as they had the old round SD dish. Now that the new dish is there will my SD receiver work with it?? I realize it will not be HD but just interested if my SD receiver will work with the SLIMLINE KA/KU DISH. Any ideas??

Thanks!!

 

[raoul5788]

Probably not. If it has a swm lnb with one cable coming from the dish, only if it's a D12 receiver. All other sd receivers aren't swm compatible. If there are four cables from the dish, then you have a swm8 switch which has a legacy port you can connect to.

 

[Rebel Racing]

There is only 1 wire coming from the dish. Our SD receiver is about 5 yr old--the modle number escapes me right now.

 

[Mr Tony]

Probably not. If it has a swm lnb with one cable coming from the dish, only if it's a D12 receiver. All other sd receivers aren't swm compatible. If there are four cables from the dish, then you have a swm8 switch which has a legacy port you can connect to.

If he has 4 lines he probably wouldnt have a SWM8
The 4 output LNB will work fine with older receivers. It will get only 101

But yeah if its a SWM setup then he would need the D12

 

[Mr Tony]

There is only 1 wire coming from the dish. Our SD receiver is about 5 yr old--the modle number escapes me right now.

black in color or silver?
I know the D12 is black and the D11 is silver

 

[Rebel Racing]

It's black

 

[Mr Tony]

dos it look like this?
http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.as...lti-satellite-receiver-(d12)&sku=185463000177

 

[ZandarKoad]

That should work fine, but check behind the little door on the front of the receiver for the model number. I wouldn't call DirecTV unless you wanted different locals.

 

[Rebel Racing]

Hi Guys,

Just checked.........it is a D12-100 So, am I good to go??

 

[raoul5788]

Hi Guys,

Just checked.........it is a D12-100 So, am I good to go??

Yup.

 

[raoul5788]

Probably not. If it has a swm lnb with one cable coming from the dish, only if it's a D12 receiver. All other sd receivers aren't swm compatible. If there are four cables from the dish, then you have a swm8 switch which has a legacy port you can connect to.

If he has 4 lines he probably wouldnt have a SWM8
The 4 output LNB will work fine with older receivers. It will get only 101

But yeah if its a SWM setup then he would need the D12

Somehow I read in the original post that there was a swm setup. Duh! There isn't!

 

[Rebel Racing]

Thanks Guys!!

 

[Mr Tony]

Hi Guys,

Just checked.........it is a D12-100 So, am I good to go??

yup you'll be fine. You may need to redo the satellite setup if you dont have a SWM setup at your place