International Upgrade

[StarScan]

I'm adding an international news package. When I called dish they said a tech will have to come replace my dish with a dish 500. Isn't the dish 500 a few steps backward from the 1000.2ea I currently have??

Not quite sure what kind of new equipment to expect.

 

[TheKrell]

They meant to say a Dish 500+. If they really are going to replace your 1000.2EA entirely, they would put up a Dish 1000+ which gets 4 satellites.

 

[TimberWolf]

They meant a 500+ dish for the 118 satellite.
It is bigger than the dish you have now. If you are using a western arc dish they should be able to just replace it.
Depending how it is mounted the may need to add support struts to it.
If on the eastern arc, you will need a second dish and probably a dpp44 switch

 

[StarScan]

I'd like them to mount it on my barn roof. Would it be a bad idea to have them fish the cable to the house through the conduit with the power line?

 

[Bobby]

That might be a very bad idea. Safety issues as well as inductive noise will prevent it...

 

[pattykay]

They meant a 500+ dish for the 118 satellite.
It is bigger than the dish you have now. If you are using a western arc dish they should be able to just replace it.
Depending how it is mounted the may need to add support struts to it.
If on the eastern arc, you will need a second dish and probably a dpp44 switch

Another option would be to replace the EA 1000.2 with the EA 1000.4, which has an input for a fourth satellite location built-in to the LNB. Combined with the Dish 500+, you would have 77/72.7/61.5/118.

 

[StarScan]

Just wondering what style are they using now?

 

[pattykay]

The first picture looks like the one I am using, but it was installed in 2008.

 

[StarScan]

Here's what they installed. Would I be able to run the three cables from the dish to a DPP44 switch and use the 4th port on switch for 61.5 so I can get my locals back in HD?

 

[TheKrell]

Is that how the 1000+ is assembled these days? Rather messy looking if you ask me. And I disapprove of the bright orange cables, one of which seems to be cut. If you don't need 4 outputs, you don't need to fiddle with a DPP44.

Anyhow, it does not appear you are on EA any longer.

 

[ChadT41]

Those don't look like WA LNBs. Looks like a EA lnb with the 118.7, but hmm. Interesting. What satellites do you currently have??

 

[StarScan]

110, 119, 118.7, 129 from that dish. They ran only 3 cables to the node in the house. Dish is on barn.

 

[TheKrell]

That's gotta be the new 1000+ LNB arrangement with a combined 118/119 eye and also separate 110, with 129 being carried by that extra solo or dual (can't see a second output) on the white cable going to the input on the twin or whatever it's called. This can't be a 1000.2EA LNB because the EA LNB has no input at all.

Don't worry StarScan, all 4 satellites are available from any of those 3 outputs because of that internal switch. There is no need for a DPP44.

 

[StarScan]

I'm wanting to add a DPP 44 so I can hopefully get 110, 118, 119, 129, and 61.5. My HD locals are on 61.5

 

[charlesrshell]

I'm wanting to add a DPP 44 so I can hopefully get 110, 118, 119, 129, and 61.5. My HD locals are on 61.5

You are having the same issue when I joined Dish in 2007. I too needed five birds to receive all channels I wanted but Dish did not have a switch to handle five inputs. So I had to run with a 1000+ dish with a side 500 dish and left 129 disconnected. Since then Dish rearranged channels so I can now get all the channels I want without the side dish.

 

[bobvick]

You need a EA dish for 61.5 and 72 and a separate dish for 118, looks like the installer was trying to get away without putting up another dish, but if your HD locals are 61.5 only, he should have mounted another dish.

 

[StarScan]

Could i do something like this? Please excuse the bad drawing.

 

[TheKrell]

Could i do something like this?

No. You can't get 5 satellites through a DPP44. I have seen some crazy ways of getting 5 satellites, but I don't remember how that is done and I'm dubious that it will work as input for a node.

 

[StarScan]

Ive done some playing around with the DPP44 and node and its never had problems.

 

[TheKrell]

That may be, but it turns off the internal switch in that LNB that handles 110/119/118 and 129 via the white cable. You want to cable a 5th LNB on 61.5 into your DPP44. I'm pretty sure that, if you cable it up as per your drawing, you will not see 129 any more.