"Wing Dish" for 211z/1000.2

[John2244]

Looking for suggestions on how to remedy a Line of sight issue I'm having. I can't take down trees blocking my sight line so I'm looking at the possibility of adding a wing dish.

I have 1000.2 dish with 211z receiver. I have 110 and 119 locked in at over 70 but get zero from 129 due to tree obstruction.

My thought was to add a wing dish to possibly lock in 61.5 or 72.7 from the eastern arc to supplement my inability to obtain 129 from the western arc.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Really appreciate any insight.

 

[sodly]

You have nothing to lose-give it a try!
let us know how you make out
Don

 

[boba]

You didn't need to start a new thread you could just continue in your already open thread.

 

[TheKrell]

I didn't know there were any wing dishes with a yoke that can handle 61.5 and 77. Another option that will work is to get the new EA LNB and just swing your 1000.2 around and align it. Where are your locals?

 

[John2244]

I didn't know there were any wing dishes with a yoke that can handle 61.5 and 77. Another option that will work is to get the new EA LNB and just swing your 1000.2 around and align it. Where are your locals?

I'm in 48169 zip, el:29.5 az:227 Sk:122. I'm an amateur when it comes to all this stuff so what's an ea LNB?

 

[John2244]

As mentioned earlier, I'm just an amateur. Still figuring out terminology and all that stuff. Not sure if I can add a wing dish or not, that's why I'm here asking you folks, so I appreciate the insight.

 

[TheKrell]

I'm in 48169 zip, el:29.5 az:227 Sk:122. I'm an amateur when it comes to all this stuff so what's an ea LNB?

OK, Detroit. Let me see which arc they're on... Note that if you don't care about your locals delivered via satellite, you can go to EA anyhow.

The LNB is an acronym for Low Noise Block downconverter. Dish uses one LNB per satellite. Your 1000.2 has 3 of these LNBs integrated with a switch capable of feeding all 3 sats to 3 dual-tuner recivers, or 2 Hoppers.

 

[John2244]

OK, Detroit. Let me see which arc they're on... Note that if you don't care about your locals delivered via satellite, you can go to EA anyhow.

The LNB is an acronym for Low Noise Block downconverter. Dish uses one LNB per satellite. Your 1000.2 has 3 of these LNBs integrated with a switch capable of feeding all 3 sats to 3 dual-tuner recivers, or 2 Hoppers.

That's great to know. Not really concerned about locals.

 

[TheKrell]

Well, you're in luck. Detroit is DUAL ARC, so you can put up a single antenna for either one. Since you have no LOS to 129 any longer, maybe you can get DISH to swap LNBs for you and swing that dish around. If that turns out to be free, I'd go for that. If you're really an amateur, I can tell you (having done this several times on dish 500's) that you may have issues aligning the dish yourself.

 

[John2244]

Well, you're in luck. Detroit is DUAL ARC, so you can put up a single antenna for either one. Since you have no LOS to 129 any longer, maybe you can get DISH to swap LNBs for you and swing that dish around.

Thx for all the information krill! Really appreciate it. So I would get EA lNB's and then look up all the coordinates. What satellites would I then look to lock on to?

 

[TheKrell]

It's Krell not Krill!!!!

If you get that dual LNB that fits on a 1000.2, you would be aiming for 61.5 for locals and 72.7 for everything else.

 

[John2244]

Well, you're in luck. Detroit is DUAL ARC, so you can put up a single antenna for either one. Since you have no LOS to 129 any longer, maybe you can get DISH to swap LNBs for you and swing that dish around. If that turns out to be free, I'd go for that. If you're really an amateur, I can tell you (having done this several times on dish 500's) that you may have issues aligning the dish yourself.

My 110 and 119 signals are at 68-70. With these numbers shouldn't I at least get something from 129? I mean I get absolute zero.

 

[John2244]

My 110 and 119 signals are at 68-70. With these numbers shouldn't I at least get something from 129? I mean I get absolute zero.

Plus, every time I try to move a couple degrees west to try and get 129 I lose 110 and 119

 

[TheKrell]

All right, we really don't need TWO threads for this same issue. If you have LOS to 129, and assuming your LNBs are all good, you need to swing east, not west, to pick up 129 on the 129 LNB. Didn't you say you put foil over the outer two LNBs and still got 119? If that's the case, your dish is aligned fine and either the 129 LNB is bad or else you have no LOS for 129 from that location.

 

[John2244]

At dish point screen the receiver won't give me any coordinates for satellite 129. It gives me el/az/Sk for 110 and 119. Is that a sign of a dead LNB?

 

[John2244]

All right, we really don't need TWO threads for this same issue. If you have LOS to 129, and assuming your LNBs are all good, you need to swing east, not west, to pick up 129 on the 129 LNB. Didn't you say you put foil over the outer two LNBs and still got 119? If that's the case, your dish is aligned fine and either the 129 LNB is bad or else you have no LOS for 129 from that location.

Yes, foil test locked in 119 centered. I will try to move east for 129 in the morning. Appreciate all the insight. Sorry for the two threads..

 

[TheKrell]

At dish point screen the receiver won't give me any coordinates for satellite 129. It gives me el/az/Sk for 110 and 119. Is that a sign of a dead LNB?

No, that's not a sign of a dead LNB. The sorry fact of the matter is that Dish stopped putting the Az/El calculation into receiver firmware after the Dish 500. To my knowledge, there is no Dish receiver that can help you point a 1000.x antenna.

 

[ChadT41]

There is no dish reciever with 1k.x series. Go to dishpointer.com. I had you some coordinates earlier for a 1k.2 western arc(110,119,129) but if you get a 1k.2EA, or 1k.4EA then you will need to go back to that website and select the correct satellite system. At this point, I would call dish. Probably cheaper.

 

[John2244]

There is no dish reciever with 1k.x series. Go to dishpointer.com. I had you some coordinates earlier for a 1k.2 western arc(110,119,129) but if you get a 1k.2EA, or 1k.4EA then you will need to go back to that website and select the correct satellite system. At this point, I would call dish. Probably cheaper.

Sounds good. Thx Chad!

 

[John2244]

No, that's not a sign of a dead LNB. The sorry fact of the matter is that Dish stopped putting the Az/El calculation into receiver firmware after the Dish 500. To my knowledge, there is no Dish receiver that can help you point a 1000.x antenna.

Thx Krell!