Receiver Description/Installation - Dish Network Solo 351 User Manual

Chapter 2
Receiver Description and Installation
Tip: Using cable
labels makes it
easy to tell which
cables connect to
the receiver ports.
Inside the front
cover of this guide
are stickers that
are color coded the
same way as the
coaxial
connections.
Channel:
Air/Cable:
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Make sure you are familiar with how to change channels on
your TV and if necessary how to switch your TV between
off-air and cable channels. During this procedure, it will be
necessary to change the channels on your TV(s) to tune to
these channels to see the video from the receiver. See your
TV user guide for instructions.
1. Connect
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using a coaxial cable.
If you do not have an existing in-home cable system, you
:
Note
will need to run coaxial cable to each TV in other rooms. If this is
too difficult, you may want to contact a professional to do this
installation.
2. Place the yellow sticker on the
attaches to the receiver. See the tip in the margin.
3. Make sure batteries are installed in Remote Control 2 and the UHF
antenna is attached to
4. Make sure the receiver's blue TV2 indicator is off. If it is on, turn it off
by doing the following:
a. Press the SAT mode button on Remote Control 2 to put the remote
control in SAT mode.
b. Press the POWER button on Remote Control 2 and make sure the
receiver's TV2 blue indicator turns off.
5. Connect the tuner input of the remote TV(s) in other rooms to an
existing wall cable outlet using a coaxial cable.
6. Turn on every remote TV connected to the in-home cabling system.
7. Find three channels next to each other on one of your remote TVs that
do not pick up any signals from off-air or cable broadcasts (they should
show nothing but snow or static). These channels must fall in one of the
two ranges below. For example, if you find that cable channels 75, 76,
and 77 do not pickup any broadcasts, pick these channels since they fall
into the range below for cable channels. Make sure these three channels
on other remote TVs also do not pick up broadcasts.
• - Select a channel between 21 and 69.
Air Mode
• - Select a channel between 73 and 125.
Cable Mode
: The remote TV(s) will have to be set to the same channel mode,
Note
either off-air or cable channel mode for this installation. See your TV
user guide for instructions on how to set your TV to off-air or cable
channel modes.
8. Pick the channel in the middle of the three you selected in step 7. Write
that channel down in the blank provided in the margin. For example, if
the three channels you picked in the preceding step were cable channels
75, 76, and 77, pick channel 76 and write it in the margin.
on the receiver to your existing wall cable outlet
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port on the receiver.
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cable near where the cable