sksatellite,
I agree that it is pretty rediculous that it can take up to 5 business days to get activations processed at Sky Angel, but they have no control over it. Sky Angel takes the order, then they forward the info to Dish. There is a queue at Dish. At some point some one at Dish looks at the queue and activates the SA subscriber.
Remember that Sky Angel is NOT Dish. They are a different company in an uneasy partnership with Dish.
See ya
Tony