Need Helping splitting my sat feed to work with Second Tuner.....

[machoernval]

I have a 3LNB satallite, one of the cables is connected and goes to my daughters room. The second cable goes to my living room. The other two cables are not connected. I just got the R15 and I am trying to split the sat feed so I dont have to run a second cable in my living room. I have a sat. splitter 40-2150MHz connected to the reciever. I made sure my box was set to "unstacked" in the menus and ran sat setup but I get no signal on the second tuner. When I changed the receiver to "stacked" in the menus, I get no signal at all. When, I switch back to "unstacked" I get feed on Tuner 1 but not on tuner 2. I followed the cables from the sat to the cables that plug into the tuners and there does not seem to be any other connections/splitters in between them. Am I missing somthing? Any help or ideas would be great! Thanks!

[morgantown]

You can not split a sat line. You can "stack" and have the system "unstack" it. However stackers are in the $100 range. Run a second line if at all possible, it is usually the easiest and cheapest solution.

All depends on your situation though. You can have a multiswitch in the house and then generally have two lines converted up to four (or more depending on the multiswitch used).

[directvfreak]

He has a 3 LNB dish so he will need to run a new line from the dish to the reciever. Stackers don't work with muti-sat installs. Only Single LNB setups.

[Wolffpack]

I thought a stacker took two lines at the source, "stacked" them and the unstacker broke those back down into the two original feeds. If they came from a multiswitch on a 3LNB dish it didn't matter.

[morgantown]

Multiswitches definately work with more than single LNB's. Honestly, I don't think DTV has even offered a single LNB dish in many, many, years.

Often the reference to LNB's and the number of "arms" on the dish get confused. What Wolf is saying is correct. Most dual or triple arm dishes already have a multiswitch built in.

Still, "most" folks do not have either international programming or HD, and don't even need the 2/3 armed dishes. The vast majority (other than some locals) are all on the main 101 sat.

[TMullenJr]

Satellites transmit the channels on different transponders (odd & even), and on different satellites. Even if you were able to split the signal like you want, you would only be watching one part of the signal at a time. This means that if you were watching one channel, and trying to record a channel on a diff sat or different transponder, you wouldn't get the signal. You really need to run the 2nd line to get full functionality of the receiver. Good luck.

Tom