DP 44 switch set up question

[D Cup]

My brother has a 1000.2 dish that will not pick up 129 due to tree problems. It picks up 110 and 119 just fine. He has a dish 500 with two lnbs (dp) located about 60 feet from the 1000.2 He uses the dish500 when he wants to see something on sat 129. We have tried running a cable from the dish500 to the 1000.2 (dish in) but the runs are long (the 1000.2 is a little over 100 feet from the house) and the stb will not pick up 129. He can run cable to the house from the dish 500 and unplug the 1000.2 and plug in the dish 500 and it will pick up 129. He has purchased a DPP44 switch and we plan to set it up by running two cables from the 1000.2 dish (110 and 119) and one cable from the dish 500 (sat 129) to the dpp44 at the house. I understand the DPP44 will cancel the internal switching from the dishes. I am curious if this set up will work since the 1000.2 AND the dish 500 both having a LNB pointed at 129 although the one on the 1000.2 dish does not get a signal from 129. If there is a problem - are there any suggestions or work arounds that we might consider?

Thanks in advance for your help

[Terryl]

A friend of mine had this problem, what we did was use a 4 foot single LNB dish and point it at 129W, 110W and 119W were received on a D500 dish, (he took down the D1000.2) we then ran it into a DPP44 switch this worked great.

One thing is that he was using a Dish receiver, if you are using an FTA receiver then you use receiver ports 2,3 and 4 on the switch for the FTA receivers and receiver port 1 for the power inserter.

Switch settings are DiSEqC 1 for 119, 2 for 110 and 3 for 129, if he has a Dish receiver then just do a check switch and it will find the satellites and switch automatically.

[D Cup]

Are there any other changes in antenna set up that need to be made on a Viewsat 9000 or max using the DP44 switch. I know how to set the ports

[ru_knuts]

Is there a 22khz option on the VS? If yes, I'd be inclined to put an Ecoda switch where the 2 coax meet, where he was swapping the cables, problem cured!