I have Dish at home, not very happy that they are blocking several local channels because of a cost dispute. How did you get them to change to a west coast feed, I asked about it and they said they couldn't do it. Also with the Dish 722 how did you get both TV's to run off the one receiver, were you able to use existing wiring, or did you have to run your own?
Flyerone and all:
Here is one secret I have figured out: When you call Dish to change your service location they can't verify what location you are telling them is true. I was at TT San Benito last week, and had my service location set to my home address in Sacramento. If I had given them the San Benito address, I would have gotten the Bay Area (or Monterey?) local network stations. Instead I got the full compliment of Sacramento local stations (only in SD) due to overlap of the satellite spotbeams. I related on another post how I got the L.A. network stations in Quartzsite, Arizona due to the big L.A. spotbeam.
The wiring is a little complex due to the use of frequency-dependent splitters/combiners called diplexers. These allow 2 distinct signals of very different frequency bands to share the same cable. Hee is a link to one of these (Radio Shack stocks them, too):
http://www.parts-express.com/rca-antenna-satellite-diplexer-splitter--189-011?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=pla
Bighorn Coax wiring diagram from "Tools/Manuals" tab at top of this page:
http://manuals.heartlandowners.org/...-BH_and_2012-2013_BC_Coax_Layout-FEL-5045.pdf
My wiring starting at the dish antenna goes to the UDC where it goes into the "Sat" connector of a diplexer (I will not use the terms "input" or output on the diplexers, since they are bidirectional). The "Ant/Sat" connector is connected to the Bighorn's "Input from Satellite Dish" connector (see cabling diagram - blue cable). The antenna signal goes to the entertainment center connector where a jumper connects it to the Dish 722 receiver wiring. The Dish receiver wiring starts with a diplexer, the dish antenna signal connected to the diplexer "Ant/Sat" terminal. The "Sat" terminal of the diplexer is connected to a special signal splitter (
http://www.3starinc.com/holland_hfs-2_2-way_horizontal_port_satellite_broadband_splitter.html ) that can handle the 12 Ghz band dish antenna signals. The output of this splitter feeds the 2 antenna inputs on the 722 receiver. The UHF picture signal for the 2nd (bedroom) TV comes out of the back of the 722 receiver, goes to the "Ant" (some diplexers are labelled "UHF" on this connector) connector to the diplexer previously used for the incoming dish antenna signal. The rear TV signal then rides back to the UDC on the same cable as the incoming dish antenna signal and is split out at the diplexer in the UDC. This connector is connected by a short jumper RG-6 (like some of the others) to the "Sat" UDC connector (purple cable on diagram) to the rear TV. The rear TV is tuned to whatever channel is set-up in the 722 modulator programming set-up (CH 90 cable on mine).
When I move the receiver from home to the Bighorn, besides the front TV signal connections and power plug, I just disconnect/reconnect the single cable from the shared dish antenna/rear tv signal cable at the receiver diplexer.
I know of no network signals blocked here on Dish due to cost disputes. When these things have happened before, usually they are ironed out a few days before the threatened cut-off date or a few days into the cut-off. Is this the dispute you are talking about?:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/01/dish-network-raycom-abc-fox-nbc-cbs-blackout/
This is how the Hopper/Joey is hooked up for Dish for those interested. If one has a DPP compatible Satellite Dish and a Dish Network account, this is a good way to get HD satellite on two or more TVs. My trailer is wired to allow this so it should not be a problem to get Satellite TV on my bedroom and main TV.
