OK, my wife and I live in a thirty year-old house that has had satellite since it went popular, all the way back to the large K-band dishes. The house was switched over in the mid-90s when the smaller dishes came out. There are enough wires, switches and splitters to reinvent Eniac I think. I decided to go in and clear out everything and start fresh. I pulled out all of the old wiring and wiring hardware and reran only what I needed, making certain to staple everything up so that it's not dragging across the ground in the crawlspace. My only concern is one wire running from what I thought was an older, unused Dish Network dish. We have a newer, dual-lnb dish with dual wire cable running from that. I was surprised to find that what I thought was the "old" dish still has a single wire running from it. There is a Dish Network switch in the basement that has three inputs labelled In from Dish 1, 2 & 3 and all three of these inputs go to them.
What I thought of as the older dish doesn't even seem to point in the same direction as the other one. What is the liklihood that this dish is still being used or that it was just reconnected by some clueless installed when the "new" dish was installed several years ago?
I'd like to remove the wiring and take the dish down if it isn't being used but I don't want to mess anything up.
Thanks for any information anyone may be able to provide.
Sincerely,
- Byron Followell
What I thought of as the older dish doesn't even seem to point in the same direction as the other one. What is the liklihood that this dish is still being used or that it was just reconnected by some clueless installed when the "new" dish was installed several years ago?
I'd like to remove the wiring and take the dish down if it isn't being used but I don't want to mess anything up.
Thanks for any information anyone may be able to provide.
Sincerely,
- Byron Followell
. Now you have the perfect opportunity to get Dish out to clean up your mess 
