DISH HD Migration off of 61.5
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OK thanks. Yeah the wing dish is an eyesore in the middle of the yard but the eyes feel better watching local HD. All I need is one good hurricane to take down a few trees and my LOS will open up and I can just use 1 dish for everything. This site rocks. Type in a question/problem and have an answer in minutes.
You got setup with the wrong dish... The Jackson, MS DMA is an eastern arc city...you should have had a 1000.4 installed.
Your locals are on 61.5 and 129...
SatelliteGuys.US - Subscription 129°W
I can tell you one thing about the Mobile, AL TP on that beam... it's strong! Stronger than the TP the N.O. locals and even the TP's on the adjacent beam that I'm full bore on.
They said they couldn't use the dish I was supposed to get because of line of sight issue so I got this one plus the small wing dish for my HD locals. Is that not right? Will Dish come fix it for me the right way?
Apparently you had line of sight to 61/72/77 so they put you 110/119/129 and found a spot for 61.5. No issues there. You won't miss a thing.
Quite a few areas are dual arc cities. Nothing wrong with giving the installers two options for line of sight. Better than having an idle spotbeam go to waste.
As long as I'm not missing out on anything now or in the near future, I'm cool with it. Thanks man. You Rock.
This somewhat sucks for me. The two places I have E (my boat and my winter getaway in SW PA) only have Dish 300 (the boat is a tracking dish, but that's basically what it is). Granted, I can re-align each to receive 72.7, but not at the same time. Thus, I'm going to have to pick and choose between watching HD premiums and my old HD Absolute package. And when I want to switch between them, I'm going to have to hard reset my 211 receivers each time. I guess I'll drop the premiums until the switch is complete.
Well I had them all and they took them away from me..
I had that Package or the equivalent since the 1st day that Dish offered Voom.
Most if not all of the AT250 channels plus all the HD channels will be available on the one 72.7 satellite. So that should not really be an issue for you.
I think its cool that what use to take them 3 satellites in bandwidth can now all be delivered over 1 satellite due to the power of MPEG4 compression.
Scott,
I agree that one sat is better than 3 (that's what made the previous use of Rainbow One so attractive, but we won't go there. It's just that in my case, during the transition I'm going to have an issue with HD Absolute being on 61.5 while my premium subscrition will be on 72.7. Granted, this will eventually get flushed out, but while that's the case, it'll be a real PITA on my boat. The dish will track any bird I tell it to, but the 211 receiver doesn't like changing satellites without a hard reset (unless I'm wrong?). For my winter get-away place, I can probably put up an old 500 to receive 61.5 and 72.7. Hopefully they'll get everything moved by next spring.
I agree that one sat is better than 3 (that's what made the previous use of Rainbow One so attractive, but we won't go there
. It's just that in my case, during the transition I'm going to have an issue with HD Absolute being on 61.5 while my premium subscrition will be on 72.7. Granted, this will eventually get flushed out, but while that's the case, it'll be a real PITA on my boat. The dish will track any bird I tell it to, but the 211 receiver doesn't like changing satellites without a hard reset (unless I'm wrong?). For my winter get-away place, I can probably put up an old 500 to receive 61.5 and 72.7. Hopefully they'll get everything moved by next spring.
So, which is better EA or WA. I have all VIP equipment. Clear view in all directions. Ivan took out most the trees in my neighborhood.
With all new satellites up on the WA and new ones on station and more to follow soon on the EA, I'm not sure it makes a difference any longer, especially for subs with all VIP receivers. Most won't have a choice because of where their locals are placed.
They have their pro's and con's. I find stronger signals with the WA, some say the EA channels being all MPEG4 look better. Of course the EA will have a higher look angle in your area.. I would just get whichever they recommend for your area and don't worry about it.
So, if all the HD Channels are leaving 61.5 and going to 72, what will all the Conus bandwidth from E15 be used for?
And if our locals are not on 61.5, what would be lose by dropping 61.5? (curious because I'd like to go 72/77/110/119 in order to get SD & HD distances).
And if our locals are not on 61.5, what would be lose by dropping 61.5? (curious because I'd like to go 72/77/110/119 in order to get SD & HD distances).
I have 110/119/61.5 and had no problem getting an addidional dish and DP44 switch for 72.7 since I have no LOS to 77.
Try doind a check switch test (menu, 6, 1, 1), that should do it, otherwise it sounds like your receiver has issues.
