Starz to Launch 3 HD Channels

[kstuart]

Oh, I've looked at a 2-dish solution, several times, and the problem is I don't have any other location to put another dish, except on the roof, which won't work for me.

Thanks though.

What about in the same location ?
Mount the 24-inch dish right next to your current Dish 1000, just to the left (if you are facing the dish), almost touching ? Or alternately, right above (or right below) the Dish 1000 ?

 

[long_time_DNC]

Had a tech check that possibility out about 4 months ago too. My D1000 is mounted on a porch support post (4x4) and there's no place to mount it except below the D1000 on the post. The problem with that is it puts it low enough that mowing the lawn or walking past it within 3-4 feet of the dish would momentarily block it's line-of-sight...

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Maybe consider the modified FTA 30" Dish route?

 

[long_time_DNC]

That's an interesting idea... Can they be purchased as a replacement for the D1000 to get 110/119/129 all on one dish?

 

[rockymtnhigh]

dfergie can probably answer this better, but I am guessing you'd just need to replace the 1000's LNBs on the larger dish???

But I might be talking garbage. as I have never tried this...

 

[long_time_DNC]

A Phd talking garbage?!? Say it ain't so!

I'm guessing you're right though...it can't be a simple process, I'm suspecting...

 

[dfergie]

I believe winegard has a dish that will accept a D mount, you could use it as a standalone for 129 using the 1000 for 119/110

 

[rockymtnhigh]

I believe winegard has a dish that will accept a D mount, you could use it as a standalone for 129 using the 1000 for 119/110

See, I told you there was an answer...

Thanks Don. And that confirmed what I was thinking - remembering a conversation I had a while back about putting up a larger dish to try to pick up 61.5.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Yeah, but it's not a single-dish solution, which is what I'm after. So, I'm pretty well sunk until they put a new bird at 129.

Thanks though!

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Yeah, but it's not a single-dish solution, which is what I'm after. So, I'm pretty well sunk until they put a new bird at 129.

Thanks though!

You don't want a dish farm??

 

[long_time_DNC]

No... I think the last thing the neighbors would want to see is a dish farm in my back yard.

But the real thing is that the only place to put another dish would be the roof and that's just not a workable thing.