Bell dish installation hd

This post is intended for the users who are handy with the tools and have the basic knowledge of how a satellite dish system works.

Cart 0. Assuming that you have already installed the mast , make sure that the mast is perpendicular to the ground by using a leveling tool. Making sure that its level will make your job much easier in pointing your dish. The following steps may NOT be of any use if the mast is not perpendicular to the ground. Now, we need to setup the Elevation and the Skew angles of the dish. For Toronto and adjacent areas, you can safely assume the Skew angle to be 96 degrees and the Elevation to be 40 degrees.

The elevation can slightly vary depending on the area and how the dish and the mast are installed but you can leave the Skew angle untouched. For other areas of Canada, please refer to page 34 on this chart.

If you follow the two steps above correctly, half of your job is done when it comes to pointing. Assuming that most of you will be using your receiver TV box to point your satellite dish and not a satellite meter, one thing that will make pointing easier is if you can use a standard definition SD receiver like , etc. Reason being that the standard receivers process the signal much faster. The connection between the LNB and the receiver must be direct meaning no switches or splitters.

On the TV, set the satellite to 91 and the transponder to 1. If you don't know how to get to this screen, press Menu and then numbers 6, 1, 1 on your receiver remote. Now you are ready to point the satellite. SW21 is simple to use while SW44 is more complicated. So, we will only talk about SW21 in this article. The output of the SW21 switch will connect to the receiver and you will be ready to receive signal from both satellites using this setup.

And consequently hook up 2 single tuner receivers because each SW21 has only one output. Switch SW44 was used for people who needed to hook up more than 2 receivers as it allows you to hook-up up to 4 receivers. We will write an article about SW44 in future. Dual tuner receivers are the ones which take 2 cables as input to work.

This meant that you needed to have 2 connections for just one receiver. And with the current setup of dual LNBs and SW switches, you wouldn't be able to connect more than 1 receiver if you were using SW21 switches or more than 2 receivers if you were using SW Just to clarify for the people who may try to correct us, Bell buys their dish equipment from DishNetwork and therefore all this hardware was introduced by DishNetwork and not by Bell.

You can only use one or the other. You may ask why do we need DPP44 switch then. It is needed only if you are looking to hook-up more than 4 receivers. And they can be any kind of receiver single tuner or dual tuner. Now you may ask, but the dual tuner receiver takes 2 cables to work properly. So, to tackle this, we use DPP separator to split the signal to 2 outputs from one cable.

We hope that this blog post can help answer some questions some people may have. We have 5 receiver locations in our home.