Confused Newbie needs your help with what dish to buy.

[meakus]

Hi all,
I have been trying to figure out what dish to buy to help with an issue I have with Rain Fade. Any medium to heavy rain and my signal is pretty much gone. Now being that I live in the Seattle Area, that is a little problem. I currently have the standard 3 LNB dish from DirecTV connected to H-20 with an OTA as well. The cable run is long due to where I had to place the dish, approx 75 feet of cable run. But I do have an amplifier on it. I plan on adding more Receivers to the system as well (As soon as the new DVR is released.)
My first thought was to use the Wave Frontier Toridial T-90 as I was also thinking of trying FTA. My main concern with this is from what I have been reading, DirecTV is going to the Ka-Band and I am having issues finding a Ka-Band lnb for that dish (Well any for that matter).
I was looking for any suggestions or slaps upside my head. Any help is greatly appreciated, as the more I read information, the more confused I get.

Thanks
Jeff

 

[charper1]

There is no Ka LNB upgrade for the PhaseIII, you will need upgrade the entire dish to the AT9 model. As far as rain fade and the PhaseIII, Gainmaster makes a larger version of the PhaseIII thus more surface area = more gain and supposed less fade. Your dish also really needs to be at the most optimal peak in a high rain area. From from what I have read the Wave Frontier toroidal dishes might actually have less surface area, thus less gain. Maybe an expert on those can chime in.

 

[hdtvtechno]

Try either the gainmaster or the new AT9 dish

BTW i never had problem with my triple lnb dish with rainfade

 

[Lynskyn]

75 feet of cable is not that long and should not require a line amp. You may want to try removing the line amp if you go to the Gainmaster or AT9.