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SWM16 Off Air
With the DirectTV SWM8 there was an "Off Air" port that could be used to hook up an off air antenna. I recently upgraded to the SWM16 and there is no such port.
With the SWM8, I could carry all my off air channels to all of my receivers. Now with the SWm16, I cannot... or at least, no one can tell me how to make it work.
Has anyone been able to get this to work or would anyone know how?
west99999tech
Scholar
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306 Messages
13 years ago
You are correct there is no off-air port the reason is in a whole home dvr system the off-air frequencies can overlap with the frequencies of the DTV. They should not have been used on the SWM8 either.
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peds48
Expert
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32K Messages
13 years ago
DirecTv no longer supports diplexing OTA signals with satellite signals for the reason use west9999 stated.
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goldw1800
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2K Messages
13 years ago
You need to add one of these to each HDDVR receiver you wish to add OTA signals
AM21OFF AIR TUNER AThen connect your rabbit ears or OTA rg6 lead to it's input and your OTA chnnnels will show in the D* guide.0
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dcd
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20.7K Messages
13 years ago
And, it you have a Whole Home DVR system, only a single AM21 would be needed as the programs would be sharable as soon as they were recorded to a HD DVR.
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