Any Suggestions

[DeanEvans]

I am located in Maui, Hawaii. I was told dish 500 wouldn't work to look at 110 & 119 birds. I installed a 24" dish with a dual LNB (for sat 119) and a 30" dish with a dual LNB (for sat 110). I use two SW21 switches and I run the two feeds from the switces to two 508 Receivers, one up stairs, one down.

I want to replace one of the 508's with a 722 dual tuner receiver. However, I only have one feed going to the location. From what I'm told I can't separate the feed I have now going to my 508 receiver.

I'm wondering; if I were to change out my 119 dish LNB to the DishPro Plus twin LNB and run the 110 dish output into the 119 LNB input. If so, I could eliminate the SW21 switches and both sat feeds from the Dish Pro Plus LNB ports could be used for a single tuner or with a separator for use with dual tuner receivers. Would this work?
Dean

[James Long]

With DISH dishes everything has to be legacy or everything has to be DishPRO (or DishPro Plus).

If you put a DishPRO Plus LNB (with an input) on one dish you'll need a DishPRO LNB on the other dish. There is a specific input that is used on that LNB. The two outputs can be run one each to your separate receivers. The second "eye" of the DishPRO Plus LNB would be pointing at nothing.

Or you could get a different switch, run all four cables (two from each current LNB) to a SW44 or SW64 switch then two cables off to the 722 and one off to the other receiver. (The 722 can use legacy feeds).

Personally I'd probably put a single or dual DishPRO LNB on each dish and get a DP34 to combine the two (still two cables to the 722) or a DPP44 (one cable to the 722).

[BattleZone]

You'd need to replace BOTH LNBs with DP Duals and use a Dish-Pro switch to combine the signals (I'd recommend a DPP33 switch).

Have you seen the Dish 500 Hawaii?

http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt20/BattleZone/HI_500.jpg

[BobaBird]

Replace one dish with the Dish 500H. Replace the other's LNB with a DP Dual and aim it at 129 to get more HD channels. Run all 3 LNBs to a DPP33 switch.

[garys]

Hawaii gets all their HD from 110 and 119, they do not need 129.

[James Long]

Hawaii gets all their HD from 110 and 119, they do not need 129.There is a Hawaii spot on 129 with several transponders beaming HD toward Hawaii. (ConUS 129 does not cover Hawaii.)

TP2
5537 TWC - The Weather Channel (214)
5541 DISC - Discovery Channel (182)
5543 TLC - The Learning Channel (183)
5547 LIFE - Lifetime (108)
5567 MTV - MTV (160)
5577 A&E - A&E (118)
5587 HGTV - Home & Garden TV (112)
5593 FOOD - Food Channel (110)

TP 4
5551 CNN -CNN (200)
5555 TBS -TBS (139)
5559 TOON - Cartoon Channel (176)
5561 DISE - Disney (East) (172) ** Currently Unavailable
5569 CMDY - Comedy Central (107)
5571 NICK - Nickelodeon (170)
5573 SPIKE - Spike (168)
5595 FX - FX (136)

TP 6
5498 MSNBC - MSNBC (209)
5535 TRV - The Travel Channel (215)
5549 CMT - Country Music TV (166)
5553 ESNWS - ESPNews (142) ** Currently Unavailable
5557 ABCFM - ABC Family (180) ** Currently Unavailable
5563 FXNWS - Fox News (205)
5565 MAX-W - Cinemax West (311)
5575 VH1 - VH-1 (162)

TP 14
5539 CNBC - CNBC (208)
5545 HBO-W - HBO West (303)
5579 SYFY - SyFy Channel (122)
5581 ESPN - ESPN (140)
5583 TNT - TNT (138)
5585 HIST - History Channel (120)
5589 ESPN2 - ESPN 2 (144)
5591 USA - USA Network (105)

TP 16
5521 BRAVO - Bravo (129)
5522 CBS C - College Sports TV (152)
5524 DISXD - Disney XD (174) ** Currently Unavailable
5528 GOLF - Golf (401)
5531 LMN - Lifetime Movie Network (109)
5533 WGN - WGN Chicago (239)
5534 BET - Black Entertainment TV (124)
5597 SPEED - Speed TV (150)

[DeanEvans]

You'd need to replace BOTH LNBs with DP Duals and use a Dish-Pro switch to combine the signals (I'd recommend a DPP33 switch).

Have you seen the Dish 500 Hawaii?

http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt20/BattleZone/HI_500.jpg
Where could I get a Dish 500H and I'm guessing with a skew it looks at 110 & 119. Is that right?

[SaltiDawg]

Hawaii gets all their HD from 110 and 119, they do not need 129.
Do they get, for example, BBC in HD on those two sats?