Dish 1000 with Winegard Crank up

[bimini3]

Is there a way to get a Winegard crankup RM-DM46 to work with a Dish Network 722k dual tuner DVR reciever. We just got the dish service so it came with the new 1000.4 dish with built in switch.

I tried hooking the 722k into the Winegard last night but could not get past the "Aquiring signals" screen. (no green bar on screen all gray).

From what I have read so far, I probably have a problem that the 722k is looking for the switch that is a part of my home dish. Will removing the connection to the 722k and repowering get me past the "aquiring Signal" screen so that I can get to the menu and switch setup screen, or is there a different process on this reciever?

It could be a bad LNB or cabling. Is there an easy test for that?

Can the 722k work with a single LNB (running only one tuner)? Or do I need to get a dual LNB for the Winegard Dish? I am pretty certain the Winegard dish is a single LNB. I think it is original on our new to us 2000 motorhome. It has the digital magic but the mounting base of the Winegard dish is larger than the RM-DM46 (my guess is ours is one of the early versions of this dish).

We are getting packed up to go south so I do not have a lot of time to mess with it. I will probably grab the new 1000.4 dish and pack it so I can tripod mount if I can't get the crankup to work.

Thanks

[Kjlunda]

I can't help much, but tell you all the different set ups I tried with my 722k. I tried multiple and single dishes with the receiver and couldn't get but 1 satellite. I'm very interested if anyone else answers your post, cause my conclusion was: New technology (722k) and old incompatible equipment(old dish/Lnb.
I'm looking at upgrading my dish this winter.
Best wishes

[Jocat54]

I can't really help with your question on using that reciever, but I can tell you that with other recievers if you move them from one location to another that are using different LNB's on the dish then you MUST do a check switch check from the menu screen.

I can use my dual tuner reciever on our single LNB roof dish, but you can only get one satellite at a time either 119 or 110--most of the channels we watch or on 119. The dish on the roof cannot set the skew so only one satellite at a time so putting a dual LNB won't help. Also the dual tuner only recieves one signal so the dual part of the tuner doesn't work which means that if you have two TV's they would both get the same signal if you split the coax after the reciever. I hope some of this made sense.

John

[kjburns]

I've never tried it. You might be able to get it to work with a single satellite. A better bet would be to get the 1000.4 and do a tripod mount. That way you'll have everything working on both tuners.