directv HD in 2 rooms

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I have a HD and OTA in one room would like to have both in another room
My question is will my triple dish allow me to receive HD and OTA in
another room and do i need a spliter of some kind to feed OTA from my
antenna to the other room.I have the atenna in the attic.I subscribe to
Direct tv and pay 4.99 for tha extra receiver which isn't hd now, which
i want to change HD.Will Direct tv charge me 10.99 for the extra HD in
the other room or wll it stay 4.99? I tried to get the answer from them
with no answer yet. Does anyone else have this set up also-2 rooms with
HD and OTA? Thanks in advance..Happy holidays to everyone.

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"Matt R." <Bodevon02@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:17441-41C14CF3-205@storefull-3352.bay.webtv.net...
>I have a HD and OTA in one room would like to have both in another room
> My question is will my triple dish allow me to receive HD and OTA in
> another room and do i need a spliter of some kind to feed OTA from my
> antenna to the other room.I have the atenna in the attic.I subscribe to
> Direct tv and pay 4.99 for tha extra receiver which isn't hd now, which
> i want to change HD.Will Direct tv charge me 10.99 for the extra HD in
> the other room or wll it stay 4.99? I tried to get the answer from them
> with no answer yet. Does anyone else have this set up also-2 rooms with
> HD and OTA? Thanks in advance..Happy holidays to everyone.

The monthly charge for a second receiver is $4.99

DirecTV cables are not to be split to receivers. Another line from the dish
will handle the second box. OTA reception requires an antenna in addition to
the dish. The antenna cable may be split and run to the 2 boxes. If the
signal strength is good, the antenna line can be combined with the dish
lines using a dual diplexer or a splitter and two single diplexers. One the
diplexed lines get to the receivers, the signals can be separated by a
single diplexer at each box.

Examples include:

http://www.smarthomeusa.com/ShopBy [...] Item/HS-2/ a
splitter with 5-1000MHz (1GHz) range and 3.5db loss per leg is a good idea
but 5-900MHz will normally do the trick and are easier to find.

http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_di [...] OD=SPTDX32
note the dual diplexer wiring diagram shown is for a single diplexer. The
dual has 2 dish inputs, one antenna input. and two combined outputs.

http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_di [...] OD=SPDX100
note the text erroneously says combing instead of combining.

http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_di [...] ROD=SP4014 A
quad diplexer may be chosen to allow 4 outputs for possible future use.

Pat

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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:53:07 -0600, Bodevon02@webtv.net (Matt R.)
wrote:

>I have a HD and OTA in one room would like to have both in another room
> My question is will my triple dish allow me to receive HD and OTA in
>another room and do i need a spliter of some kind to feed OTA from my
>antenna to the other room.I have the atenna in the attic.I subscribe to
>Direct tv and pay 4.99 for tha extra receiver which isn't hd now, which
>i want to change HD.Will Direct tv charge me 10.99 for the extra HD in
>the other room or wll it stay 4.99? I tried to get the answer from them
>with no answer yet. Does anyone else have this set up also-2 rooms with
>HD and OTA? Thanks in advance..Happy holidays to everyone.

If I understand your post correctly.
You would need a spliter for the OTAas the Oval dish does not pick up
OTA. The Oval dish set up will alow up to 4 recievers. If you trade
out your non hd reciever the bill should stay the same. If you add an
additional reciever then you should only pay 4.99 more.
Fred