USE HD RECEIVER AND HD TV WITH TRIPLE NLB DISH

[WALLSIE]

I am renting a fishing camp for two weeks later this summer. It has a triple LND dish, but no receiver or TV. Can I use my HD receiver (H24 200) and HD tv on that setup? I don't care if I get HDTV or not... I just want some TV. If this is possible, what do I need to do to set this up? I am a real novice at this stuff. Thanks.

 

[raoul5788]

to Satelliteguys!
Yes, you can use the H24 with the older dish, but like you said, no hd. You will need to go into the setup menu and change the dish/lnb type to what you have there.

 

[WALLSIE]

I tried to set this arrangement up a while back to see if I could get it to work. I couldn't. When I ran setup I got a message that there was a "problem communicating with the dish 771A." So then I ran setup again manually and changed the swith type to "multi-switch" and the the dish type to 3 LNB. When I clicked on "continue" and setup tried to verify the installation it failed (error on tuner 1). But when I went to the signal strenth meter I had strong signals (over 75) on all satellites. I assume that there is something that I am not doing, but I could not figure out what. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[raoul5788]

Are you setting it to Slimline 3 lnb? If so, that's the problem. You have to set it to the old style 3 lnb.

 

[WALLSIE]

No, I did set it to the old 3 NLB setting... and before I gave up I tried every combination available on the screen. No luck.

 

[charper1]

75 signal isnt good by any means but if you did have that 75 and were not pulling in video; it sounds like an aiming issue.