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Posted by: omar

My current setup includes a triple LNB elliptical dish and 4 wires running from it to various rooms. One of those rooms now has a HD DirecTIVO in it (which requires two inputs). The current plan is to install a 5x8 multiswitch at the satellite and run an additional cable from the dish to the room where I have the HD Tivo.

Is there any way to use the existing single cable going to the room in combination with a multiswitch and a diplexer to get two satellite signals without having to run another cable from the dish to the room in question? Thanks.

Regards,

Omar

Posted by: pkscout

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Originally posted by omar
My current setup includes a triple LNB elliptical dish and 4 wires running from it to various rooms. One of those rooms now has a HD DirecTIVO in it (which requires two inputs). The current plan is to install a 5x8 multiswitch at the satellite and run an additional cable from the dish to the room where I have the HD Tivo.

Is there any way to use the existing single cable going to the room in combination with a multiswitch and a diplexer to get two satellite signals without having to run another cable from the dish to the room in question? Thanks.

Not with a diplexer, no. In order to use a single cable to carrier two satellite signals, you need a stacker/destacker combination. You can do a search for that on this board, but to save you some time I'll say that the general consensus is that it is *far* cheaper to have another cable run than it is to purchase the stacker/destacker equipment.