Upgrading to 722 from 301

[FranKy400]

My parents had dish network installed in the late 90's in a newly constructed home utilizing a 301 in the family room and a 301 in the bedroom and a dish that pointed at 110 and 119. Nothing has been upgraded since that time. I have "finally" convinced them that they need to get new hi-def tv's and new receivers. I assume that the dish itself will need to be replaced in order to get signals from 3 satellites. Dad really wants dual tuners for PIP, but the house was built with only a single coax run to each tv, and mom is afraid someone will damage her walls during installation if additional wiring is required. The question I have is can they upgrade to dual-tuners without having to run additional coax through the walls? Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[Chimera]

You should (based on my limited knowledge) be able to feed each receiver from it's own dedicated coax so as long as each one has a coax run from the dish now, that should work.

 

[garys]

With DPP lnb's, only one coax would need to go to the receiver and a separator would then feed both inputs.

 

[vegassatellite]

That home is adequately wired unless a bozo builder wired it with RG59 instead of RG6. Dish' dual tuner receivers only require one wire, except in certain circumstances.

 

[FranKy400]

Thanks.

Thanks for the info. I was hoping that it could be done. My house has 2 lines going into each receiver, but my house was wired with multiple coax jacks. I hadn't thought about the RG59 problem. Hopefully, the builder used RG6. But I guess I need to make sure the next time I over at their house. Anyway, thanks again for your help.