Quick-and-dirty CNN? Best option...

[jgoggan]

I need to temporarily have CNN available to me at a remote location. I have a 721 and a 311 on my account. Can I just take my 311 and an old dish with me on this trip, point it at whichever bird CNN is on (is it 110 or 119?) -- and be all set?

Do I need any switches even -- or can I run straight from the LNB to the 311?

While we're at it... The location I'm going to actually has an old DirecTV dish there. Are the LNBs compatible? Could I just use that dish and repoint it? Or no?

I'm trying to take the minimum with me is all. Just want to get CNN and maybe a couple of other channels on one satellite for a few days. What are my option?

Thanks!

- John...

P.S. Do I need a switch to get all of the AT-60 channels that are available on the one satellite? In other words, I'd like to get all of the channels that I subscribe to with AT-60 that are available from the same bird that CNN is on. What is the minimum equipment I'd need? Thanks!

[Randall DBS]

Just point the directv dish at 119 and hook the 311 straight to the lnb and you will be all set.

[jgoggan]

Sweet! Thanks! I didn't know if the LNBs were compatible or whatever. I should be able to just take the 311 and some cable then. And I should get all of the AT-60 channels that are on 119 without any sort of a switch, correct?

Thanks again!

- John...

[Geronimo]

Sweet! Thanks! I didn't know if the LNBs were compatible or whatever. I should be able to just take the 311 and some cable then. And I should get all of the AT-60 channels that are on 119 without any sort of a switch, correct?

Thanks again!

- John...


You will lose a few AT60 channels that are on 110. The EKB has a table that will show you this.

http://ekb.dbstalk.com/dishlist.htm

[Mike500]

You will lose a few AT60 channels that are on 110. The EKB has a table that will show you this.

http://ekb.dbstalk.com/dishlist.htm

You will only lose the TV Guide channel and a few shopping channels.

[Geronimo]

And DISH Home and the alternate ESPN channels and He Documentary Channel

[jgoggan]

Indeed -- I'm aware of that. I meant that I just wanted to make sure that I didn't need any switch at all to be able to get all of the channels that are on 119. I didn't know if you needed one just to do polarity changes or whatever. Sounds like I don't and can run straight from a Dish or DirecTV dish pointed at 119 and run it directly into the 311 and be all set. Thanks!

- John...

[James Long]

As long as the LNB can handle the switch in polarities on one coax (it should).

MAKE SURE you do a checkswitch with nothing connected to your receiver so it doesn't send DP power levels/commands to the LNB and overpower it.

[alebowgm]

ALSO, if it is a Phase 3 or higher DirecTV satellite (so not only at 101) then it wont work...

[jgoggan]

It is an old 1-satellite DirecTV dish (or it might actually be a 1-satellite Dish Network dish -- all I know is that there is some old dish there already from one of the two). So, I think I should be all set.

Thanks again, all!

- John...

[Michael P]

As long as the LNB can handle the switch in polarities on one coax (it should).

MAKE SURE you do a checkswitch with nothing connected to your receiver so it doesn't send DP power levels/commands to the LNB and overpower it.
AMEN! This is a very important first step when switching LNB's.

[dvrblogger]

You will lose a few AT60 channels that are on 110. The EKB has a table that will show you this.

http://ekb.dbstalk.com/dishlist.htm
I have a feeling DIRECTV lnbs wont work because DISH LNBS are stacked and DIRECTV unstacked.

[James Long]

For a single receiver they could be seen as a legacy LNB.

[alebowgm]

they will be a legacy lnb