Originally, I have the typical 110 and 119 satellite setup for my viewsat platinum lite receiver. I want to add another receiver so I bought a used viewsat platinum receiver and a 4x4 multiswitch receiver. I tested the viewsat platinum receiver and it works perfectly fine in place of my platinum lite. I added two cables on my dual lnb and I connected it to my multiswitch. First, 2 cables from my 110 lnb to lnb a and b on my multiswitch. Then, 2 cables from my 119 lnb to lnb c and d. I'm not sure if these connections are right. I tried to change the antenna setup on receiver and I only the echostar 7 is working. Can you please tell how to make my 2 receivers work and if cable connections are right? I need to know the antenna setup for my receivers.
No they are not right. you need a multiswitch for each LNB. The out of the multi switches you need to add disq switches to each reciever to tell the difference between 110 and 119. Quick little diargam.
LNB A (110w) -> Multiswitch A
-> Multiswitch B -> to outputs on multiswitch -> to reciever 1 disq 1
-> to reciever 2 disq 1
LNB B (119w) -> Multiswitch A
-> Multiswitch B -> to outputs on multswitch -> to reciever 1 disq 2
-> to reciever 2 disq 2
Hope that helps, but unless you have a multiswitch that accepts 2 birds then one will not work.
the reason a multswitch needs 2 feeds per lnb is becasue when a lnb locks onto a bird it runs in two modes. Horizontal and vertical, and a dual lnb has to outputs so... the multswitch locks one lnb on vertial and the other side on horizontal. Doing that the multswitch knows that the reciever it looking for both horizontal and vertical depending on the channel so it just deverts the signal to the right side of the lnb which is locked.
-Angel