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Interesting problem - Identifying ports and cables
Hi,
I have an interesting problem. My dish is like 100 mtrs from my place and the three coax from 110,119 and 129 run underground from dish to the DPP44 switch. How can I tell at the switch which cable is 110, which is 119 and which 129, as I believe they need to be in port 1,2 and 3 respectively to work properly. Is there and easy way to tell which cable is connected to which bird? Thanks for reading and help |
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Re: Interesting problem - Identifying ports and cables
If the dish is aimed you need 3 trials at the most for the first cable , 2 trials at the most for the second cable and the last is what is left.
If the dish is not aimed you need to hook only one cable at a time at the dish side, and check for signal at the other end on each cable, until identifing and marking all 3 at both ends. |
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Re: Interesting problem - Identifying ports and cables
Dish is pointed, all I need to do is find out which cable is which, so if lets say I have 119 plugged in port 1 and if under dish settings I choose Disecq switch to be 1, what ever bird info I see on my SV360Elite is the actual sat? is the receiver able to differentiate which bird is it picking up? if yes, than this will be real simple, you agree?
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