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Question by supersetjones
Submitted on 4/24/2004
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Is it possible to substitute two round dishes for the traditional oval dish on a DirecTV installation?

I am a subscriber to Direct TV and installed my own round dish aimed at the 101 satellite for the basic programming.  I have acquired another round dish and would like to aim it at the 119 satellite.  119 is usually received with an oval dish but technical people have told me that I could do it with my two round dishes but he wanted $130 to do it for me.

DirecTV was notified of the change and they sent me the cards.

The problem is I can't get the aiming feature on my receiver/decoder to work on the second dish.  I use the oval dish program setting in order to bring the aiming procedure up but the only signal I get comes from the 101 satellite.  Kibitzers have suggested connecting the LNB outputs of the two dishes to a combiner, which I have not been able to find.
Now I wonder what you might advise.  How are the four outputs of the LNBs connected on an oval dish?  What is a combiner?  Is the whole thing possible?



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