Cause I like doing it myself, satellite stuff is kind of a hobby. Thanks good to know, I need to start buying stuff, haven't decided on receivers yet.

I'm not worried about the actual alignment of the dish, I've setup many fta dishes as well as single lnb Dtv stuff and a few dish 500's... Its the actual swm hardware and the newer receives I'm not familiar with. Just want to make sure It can be done with the receiver, cause I don't want to buy...

My old equipment wouldn't do me any good, I have an old single dual output lnb @ 101 and two old receivers....

What do you mean by swm software already loaded? This is going to be an upgrade for me, well basically a new install. I have to get all new receivers as well as the dish and so forth. Will the receivers I get be ready to go providing they are for the swm lnbf?

I searched for this, and couldn't find any straight answers. Can the swm be aligned with a receiver?

Finally solved my problem Don't know if it was luck, but two of the same lnbf's fixed my problem. My thought was since these switches pass power on both sides at the same time, if one lnbf was drawing more current than the other the other wouldn't work. I have no way to test the current...

Now what? The second ecoda worked fine for 5 days before it stoped switching to the 22k side. So I switched that lnb to the off side just to make sure it was the switch, and it was. Then I put it back were it was, and its working again. Now I don't know if its the switch or my setup. Could I...

I did not get mine from Sat Hobby, all though it looks just like DJ Robs pic. Mine came from MXmart. I was just looking around randomly at a half a dozen or so websites, and all the ecoda 22k switches look the same...If they are clones I havn't seen anyone selling a real one.

Mine is a clone also then. The box is different than DJ Robs, but switch is the same.

How did you test, for voltage or the actual 22k tone?

It it wired Receiver---> motor---> Diseqc---> ecoda. There are four lnbs, right now. Motor on port 1, stationary on port 2, two staionarys port 3, with ecoda, I'm going to be using port 4 for another dish I haven't put up yet. The weird thing is it went bad in the middle of watching...

I just had a new Ecoda go bad after two days, it stoped switching to the 22Khz side. I know these are supposed to be good switches. Did I maybe just get a hold of a bad one?

A very small drill bit could be used, twisting it in will catch the wire and you could pull it out.

They will pop up somewhere else, wont they? :confused:

I had the same thing about a week ago with color bars on RTN east. I changed the freq. from 11735 to 11740 and it was fine.

I'm in south FL we had some nasty weather go through a few hours ago.

Thats what I did, I just manually put in a slightly higher frequncy and there they where.

Thanks, problem solved. I had them on 11735 4430 since they moved to AMC 9. Now I'm getting them on 11740 4440.....any reason that would happen?

Anyone missing RTN today? I have color bars on east and no audio or video on west.

Well I can't be to sure on the size, I guess I'll find out as soon as I can grab my friend and his pick up truck. Wish me luck.

I found what looks like a 6 foot mesh that I can have. It's mounted maybe 6 or 7 feet up. Just wondering what's the esiest way to take these down and apart.

Hey, I'm in Jupiter, thats just 20 minutes up I95, do you still have the dish? I'd love to make use of it.

Thanks for the replies. I plan on using this mainly for feed hunting and these two seem to get mentioned a lot, thats why I was choosing between them. I think I'll go with the merc.

I'm trying to decide between these two receivers. I've read a bit about both of them, but I'm looking for a comparison between the two. Blind scan being the most important along with picture quaility. Anyone use these two receivres, all opinions welcome, thanks.

I've got it on 30" dish Q is usually about 60 or so, I havn't gone to it in a few days and noticed it's down to about 10-12, tonight.