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[markspace]

I had a fairly painless experience (although I haven't actually added the Voom channels yet, I did add HD, and I believe it applies here too). I recently acquired an 811, and undertook upgrade of my legacy lnb's to dishpro, then added a third dish and a UHF aerial. Once I verified my signal strengths and OTA reception, I called customer service to activate my 811, and add HDpak. After about 15 minutes of checking my config and verifying reception with the CS rep, I was good to go.

My only hitch is that the 811 is more finicky about my 110/119 reception than my 301, so I need to either get out a tree pruner or move my dish (the tree isn't mine, so I'll move the dish).

When I asked if I could add Voom, the CS rep said "sure, anytime, as long as you can see 61.5". Smooth.

 

[pwherr]

Turned my second dish from 148 to 61.5.61.5 is harder to find here but got a 102 on it.Called to activate and the girl said she didn't know about the voom channels.She put me on hold for a while then came back and said "I can't turn them on because you live in Colorado and you can't get 61.5".I told her I have a 102 signal on 61.5 and the channels were on my guide they were just red. On hold again. She comes back and tells me she turned them on but I should not be able to get them and if they go off call and they would take them off my sub..Well I am watching them just fine on both HD recievers.

 

[wbuffetta]

I Got Activated On Sunday 5/15/05. I Have The Voom 18" Dish Pointed At Rainbow 1.
For You Old E* Folks Be Aware That The Voom Channels Are On Rainbow 1 & Not
Ecostar 3 & They Are On The Odd TPs 1,3,5,7 .
So When You Repeak Your Dish Use TPs 1,3,5 Or 7, Not Even TPs To Get Your Best Signal.If You Have A Dish 811 When Point Your Dish Use Sat. 148 Not 61.5. 61.5 In The Dish Pointing Menu Will Not Show The Odd Tps Because Ecostar 3 Is A Even TP Bird.

 

[mikeg1906]

has anyone heard that E is going to move the voom ch's off of 61.5 and put them on dish 500 (110 or 119). I have a local store here in NW PA says he hear this. But I been looking on here and I don't see anyone talking about it. From what I read on here voom has 21 ch's but dish has only put up 10 ch's so far.

 

[gutter]

Mikeeg....there were a few threads of rumors about VOOM channels possibily moving in the future but haven't seen anything official to back that up. It was mentioned with the physical move of Rainbow 1 to another location.

 

[BobMurdoch]

I don't think it will happen as there is no bandwidth there. Any change that MIGHT happen would be at least a year away after Mpeg 4 shows up...