Confused, what dish to request? 1000.2 or 1000+

[anonymouse99]

Greetings All!

New member in this wonderful, informative forum. I have been a dish customer for 10+ years, with Dish Intl programming from 61.5.

Dish folks agreed to do a no-cost upgrade (I added Dish Top 200 + HD, after deciding to dump Comcast) and are bringing a 1000+ dish.

Initially, I was excited as I thought that I would be able to get all of my US + HD + intl programming from one dish (with 110, 118.7, 119, 129 orbital slots). This would allow me to get rid of my 61.5 dish. Now, I realized that it will be a pole mount with 4 wires trenched in across my backyard.

Would I be better off just asking for a Dish 1000.2 dish (as it has a built in switch and would only need 2 coax cables buried/trenched instead of 4, having picked a 722 + either a 625 or a 322 set of receivers) and ask them to reuse the existing Dish 61.5 feed? The installers seem somewhat clueless, they still have not been able to bring the right equipment after 2 trips (which may actually may have been beneficial for me thus far -lol- ).

Someone indicated that all of the Intl programming is being moved from 61.5 to 118.7 (I am not sure what is proper, as I get varying answers from Dish folks, they seemed confused as hell!).

I want to minimize the buried coax in my backyard - your feedback will be gratefully appreciated!!

 

[aegrotatio]

What's the concern of burying 4 coaxial cables instead of two?
There will still be a trench whether you have two or four cables, right?
You could go to Home Depot and get some flexible conduit and ask them to use that when trenching the cables (I'm not sure if they would use direct burial cable or a conduit themselves). That would makes it easy to change cables if they go bad.
If it's a pole mount they should at least be using conduit at the pole so weed-whackers don't cut the cable. That's what the NEC says to do.

Ask them if they'll be using conduit.

As for which channels go where, the 1000+ will guarantee you won't have to buy a new dish anytime soon.
For the HD channels, it might be advantageous to stay with the 61.5 since it would have a more stable signal than the 129 on the 1000+.
I'm not sure how the switches are arranged to keep HD from 61.5 on a 1000.2 dish, though.

 

[anonymouse99]

AFAIK - they are just burying the coax in the ground without the use of conduit (maybe I should get some type of conduit myself from Home Depot).

I presume they'll route the cables into the ground from within the pole deep enough to not be a weed whacker target. I did not know that HD could also be sourced from 61.5. I am just afraid that the backyard will become a cable mess, I am just trying to avoid dish clutter.

 

[boba]

Your cable has to come up out of the ground that is where the weed whacker can do damage.

 

[Hall]

Dish will give you the dish you need or the one that will get the job done. They won't give you a different one because of fewer connections (unless you pay for it).

I've never heard of conduit being used either.

 

[aegrotatio]

They don't necessarily use conduit because the NEC doesn't apply to those low-voltage cables.
I'm not sure what you'd do.
Are they really letting you choose the dish and the configuration?
I didn't know you could do that.

 

[anonymouse99]

I got a 1000+ with the 4 wire configuration into a DPP44 (dont know if this the right number) switch. I wanted a dish w/4 LNBs, especially intl. They were offering me a 3 LNB dish and said that there was not an easy way for them to select a specific dish. They advised that I just pick some additional programming for 118 orbital slot. They told me that I could subsequently cancel that channel once the installation was complete. This was the only way I was able to get a specific dish.

The wiring used some sort of a dual coax embedded in a common sheath (which also ran a parallel set of grounding wires). I was afraid of having to bury 4 cables. There were 4 cables alright but were embedded as pairs, which worked out perfectly.

 

[NpaulTodd]

is there an option to add a 5th sat , to the 1000+ ( 61.5) ?