When did the 500 debut

[HoppertheKangaroo18]

I have no clue when the dish500 , expressvu or even excel signatures came out.

 

[telstar_1]

500 came along very quickly in the DiSH evolution as the nascent service didn't have as much xpdr capacity in one slot as DTV did, and was adding channels left & right such as int'l & distant nets. So DiSH did what would become their trademark in evolving the "dish" to receive from multiple orbital locations. In essense it was very simple, just put 2 LNBFs (single or dual) on the feed support and send their outputs to a switch (like SW21). But they found they needed to make the dish slightly bigger because neither of the feeds would then be prime focused, and they needed to put it on a skewable mount. Thus began the march away from what had been the ideal of an unobtrusively small dish that had been sold to the public. From there they would develop the Twin LNBF for the 500, saddle folks with a much larger "Superdish" to get sat locals, and eventually a larger int'ls dish and then the various iterations of the 1000 triple dish.

500 came out....1998. The original (1996-launched) DiSH service used a DTV-sized single-slot dish on 119. 500 added 110. They also offered 61.5 early on for int'l and some others, requiring a second (regular small-sized) dish.

 

[dishdude]

500 came along very quickly in the DiSH evolution as the nascent service didn't have as much xpdr capacity in one slot as DTV did, and was adding channels left & right such as int'l & distant nets. So DiSH did what would become their trademark in evolving the "dish" to receive from multiple orbital locations. In essense it was very simple, just put 2 LNBFs (single or dual) on the feed support and send their outputs to a switch (like SW21). But they found they needed to make the dish slightly bigger because neither of the feeds would then be prime focused, and they needed to put it on a skewable mount. Thus began the march away from what had been the ideal of an unobtrusively small dish that had been sold to the public. From there they would develop the Twin LNBF for the 500, saddle folks with a much larger "Superdish" to get sat locals, and eventually a larger int'ls dish and then the various iterations of the 1000 triple dish.

500 came out....1998. The original (1996-launched) DiSH service used a DTV-sized single-slot dish on 119. 500 added 110. They also offered 61.5 early on for int'l and some others, requiring a second (regular small-sized) dish.

1998 seems early for the 500, not doubting you. Going off memory, the first 500 I remember was in 2000. The twin wasn't ready yet so it shipped with two dual LNBs and two SW21s. Hooked it up to a 3700/2700.

 

[telstar_1]

I was dithering between '98 & 99. Also when it came out I wasn't interested in it for my customers, as there was nothing on 110 they needed, and so I continued to install the smaller sized dishes.

 

[dishdude]

I was dithering between '98 & 99. Also when it came out I wasn't interested in it for my customers, as there was nothing on 110 they needed, and so I continued to install the smaller sized dishes.

Locals for my area launched on 61.5 and moved to 110 with the launch of the 500. I remember going back to repoint all the 61.5 dishes to 110 in the summer of 2000.

 

[HoppertheKangaroo18]

500 came along very quickly in the DiSH evolution as the nascent service didn't have as much xpdr capacity in one slot as DTV did, and was adding channels left & right such as int'l & distant nets. So DiSH did what would become their trademark in evolving the "dish" to receive from multiple orbital locations. In essense it was very simple, just put 2 LNBFs (single or dual) on the feed support and send their outputs to a switch (like SW21). But they found they needed to make the dish slightly bigger because neither of the feeds would then be prime focused, and they needed to put it on a skewable mount. Thus began the march away from what had been the ideal of an unobtrusively small dish that had been sold to the public. From there they would develop the Twin LNBF for the 500, saddle folks with a much larger "Superdish" to get sat locals, and eventually a larger int'ls dish and then the various iterations of the 1000 triple dish.

500 came out....1998. The original (1996-launched) DiSH service used a DTV-sized single-slot dish on 119. 500 added 110. They also offered 61.5 early on for int'l and some others, requiring a second (regular small-sized) dish.

Also excel signatures are basically directv 18 inch dishes *idk when the 18 inch came out* but excel is my brand from 9 years ago