At 06:36 PM 6/4/2008, you wrote: >I'll look for a Primestar antenna. At this point I have 3 dishes on a >diseq switch with one vacant input. Are there switches that handle more >than 4 inputs? > >Stephen Smith wrote:
> > ACtually, the LNBs on the primestar will also work as that was linear. > > The > > only thing is that most of those primestar dishes have two feeds from the > > LNBs. One is vertical and one is horizontal. But a good diseq switch will > > work great with an FTA receiver. Just scan both positions on the > > switch and > > you'll have the whole satellite covered. > > > > There are still some in people's yards that they will gladly give away to > > have them removed. > > > > Steve Those Primestar dishes are great!! One was mine (I was a P* customer & went to big dish after Direct TV cut the signal off) and the rest I've pulled out of yards for free. Awesome for KU sats. My first Primestar dish was parked on SBS-6 & it's not moving. I'll tell you what else is good. Hunt for free C band dishes when you see a pizza pan on someone's house. I've gotten several that way all for free. Once I got four 16 foot fiberglass dishes from an apartment complex just for the asking. Brought tools, took it all apart & hauled it off......
