SWM Question

If you have a SWMline LNB, that has a single cable output only...you can split as needed for a maximum of 8 tuners (DVR=2 tuners) that are SWM compatible.

There are no legacy options for a SWMline LNB Dish.

If you have a Slimline Dish, with four coax outputs, you can install a SWM-8.

That will, in addition to the above capability, also have three legacy ports for use with older IRDs.

I guess it would probably be better and cheaper to just abandon the 2 old SD DRV's and get a couple of new hr21's, then I could just do as you say and not worry about the old stuff. I would have to get an AM21 for one of them, since Directv does not offer locals in my area.

I'm trying to do this without running any more cables. My present dish is mounted on a concreted garden timber way out from the house with the 2 cables buried. I also have an OTA antenna mounted on the timber on a short mast above the dish. I am disabled and can no longer dig a trench to bury additional cables, and I want to do this myself, being a retired tv engineer.

If I go with a SWM LNB on the dish, I can use the two existing cables, one for the SWM and the other for the OTA.

Any satellite meters out there yet to do SWM?

mrdbdigital said:

I'm trying to do this without running any more cables. My present dish is mounted on a concreted garden timber way out from the house with the 2 cables buried. I also have an OTA antenna mounted on the timber on a short mast above the dish. I am disabled and can no longer dig a trench to bury additional cables, and I want to do this myself, being a retired tv engineer.

If I go with a SWM LNB on the dish, I can use the two existing cables, one for the SWM and the other for the OTA.

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If you can get a SWM LNB from eBay, or wherever, you'll only need to swap the LNBs.

...and yes use one RG6 for the SWM LNB and the other for OTA.