15 TV's What do I Need for Satellite

[undertaker1]

The house in question is in Independence Mo. With advice of other tech's that don't know or won't share their knowledge I have installed 6 RG6 cables from the dish location to a central location, all electronics for this house meet here. No one can seem to tell me with a straight answer what equipment I may need. An online store with detailed descriptions of their products would be very helpful, I don't mind reserching the info myself, but finding it has been difficult. Any info on this would be very helpful.

 

[milesy]

Its easy.

One cable from an UHF aerial (TV) to the head end ( the room where all the cables terminate.

Four cables from the dish to the head end. You need 4 cables because a sat signal is made up of 4 seperate components
1 High band Horrizontal
2 High band Vetical
3 Low band Horizontal
4 Low band vertical

You connect all of these cables into a 5 x 16 multi switch
The 16 way switch will then feed the 15 tv and leave you with one spare.

Try and find a locaal dealer I use Sat Solutions or Euro Sat.

Explain your requirement and they will sort you out!

Hope this helps.

 

[fifthcolumnist]

You have not given enough information. Do you intend to install BUD (big ugly dish) Analog C band, Ku band, or
Dishnetwork or Canada's Bell Express View?

The popular setup now is the FTA (Free To Air) receivers from Korea which can be modified to pick up DishNetwork programming from Echostar 6&8, and 7 satellites, or numerous
other satellites such as the popular Telstar 5.

The answer above is NOT correct because each transponder
on the satellite dish contains a vertical and horizontal component requiring only a single RG6 or RG59 75 ohm coax cable. Most dishes such as direct TV and DishNetwork have
2 cables from TWO transponders on them, and they feed to an electronic switch which outputs a single cable to the satellite receiver. HDTV from these companies require 3 transponders which output 3 coax cables to a 3 input switch.