Setting up HD DVR in a motorhome

[stevelv2]

I hope someone can help me out here

I have a motorhome with a dual LNB in-motion dish on the roof and I just ordered DirecTV service with HD channels and DVR service and the installer dropped off the HD DVR at the house.

I am confused by something called "B Band Converter Module for Ka-Lo band up-conversion" units (there are two of them).

Do I connect these to the back of the DVR and then to the feed lines from the LNBs?
From the diagram it appears that they are used on triple or 5 LNB setups and as I only have a dual LNB I assume that I will have to change satellites manually to get all of the stations (which is not a problem) so if I install them on both feed lines will they interfere with anything?

As you can see, I'm a bit confused on how to configure this exactly.

Thanks for any help you can give

 

[raoul5788]

I hope someone can help me out here

I have a motorhome with a dual LNB in-motion dish on the roof and I just ordered DirecTV service with HD channels and DVR service and the installer dropped off the HD DVR at the house.

I am confused by something called "B Band Converter Module for Ka-Lo band up-conversion" units (there are two of them).

Do I connect these to the back of the DVR and then to the feed lines from the LNBs?
From the diagram it appears that they are used on triple or 5 LNB setups and as I only have a dual LNB I assume that I will have to change satellites manually to get all of the stations (which is not a problem) so if I install them on both feed lines will they interfere with anything?

As you can see, I'm a bit confused on how to configure this exactly.

Thanks for any help you can give

You don't need to use the b band convertor. It's used only when a 5 lnb dish AND mpeg4 receiver is in use.

 

[stevelv2]

OK, that's great - thanks.

I assume that the HD and regular programming are broadcast on 3 of the birds - I have a 9762R Trac-King In-Motion Dual LNB dish and as I understand this it will point at say 110 and 119 and if I want to watch programming on another bird I simply tell it to go to say 101.

Do you know if it will do this automatically when I change the channel or is it just a manual thing?

 

[raoul5788]

OK, that's great - thanks.

I assume that the HD and regular programming are broadcast on 3 of the birds - I have a 9762R Trac-King In-Motion Dual LNB dish and as I understand this it will point at say 110 and 119 and if I want to watch programming on another bird I simply tell it to go to say 101.

Do you know if it will do this automatically when I change the channel or is it just a manual thing?

I'm not familiar with the tracking part of the dish, but a normal dual lnb dish points at 101 and 119, there is no pick up from 110.

 

[stevelv2]

I'm hoping that the tracking part will be able to handle that so I can tell it to move to 110 if there is programming on there I want to watch.

My final question (honestly!) is can I split the feed from a dish to send a signal to a second reciever? How do you normally connect 2 receivers to a single dish?

 

[Jimbo]

I'm hoping that the tracking part will be able to handle that so I can tell it to move to 110 if there is programming on there I want to watch.

My final question (honestly!) is can I split the feed from a dish to send a signal to a second reciever? How do you normally connect 2 receivers to a single dish?

Steve,
You mentioned you had a dual LNB dish set up, so there would be 2 places to connect your coax one going to each receiver.
Never split the signal coming from the dish before it goes into a receiver.
Unfortunatly, the tracking dish set up you have will not handle the new stuff, 99* and 103* , but you will be able to see the majority of the programming until D* changes everything over to mpeg4, should be at least another couple of years.

My neighbor is looking to do like you are doing, but I told him to investigate and see if thay make any that handle everything now.

Jimbo

 

[stevelv2]

Does that mean that the output from both LNBs go to both coax or is it one lnb on one coax - if I send one to the front TV and one to the rear TV won't that mean that each TV will only get half the channels?

The dish manufacturer says that the dish can be aligned with any bird and will track it but I've yet to actually test that

 

[Teronzhul]

I should think this more likely a dual output single lnb, which is sometimes called a dual lnb. (note i could be mistaken)

This would give you a round dish with 2 leads, and what you do with each lead depends on your intentions. You could send a single lead to each receiver and both would get all channels, or you could send 2 lines to the dvr to enable dual tuner capability. Further you could use a 3x4 multiswitch and have 3 lines active for both receivers.

If it is a single lnb, dual output, then it will only function on 101 and 119. 110 requires a different lnb type, and sadly 110 carries the majority of Directv's national HD channels.

 

[Jimbo]

Does that mean that the output from both LNBs go to both coax or is it one lnb on one coax - if I send one to the front TV and one to the rear TV won't that mean that each TV will only get half the channels?

The dish manufacturer says that the dish can be aligned with any bird and will track it but I've yet to actually test that

I believe you will get ALL your channels on each input, therefore I would run one lead to each reciever.

Jimbo