If you change spot beam areas you will have to call and get a “bump” sent to your receiver even though the correct channels for the area you are in will probably show up on your guide. I just had that discussion with dish last night. We also use the hopper 3. We reset our locals often. A suggestion is that I have found using tech support (option 4) works much better than using a normal csr (option 3). Using tech support they understand what I want and I only have to give them a zip code. Normal csr’s usually want a complete address which is unnecessary.
I have found that the guide times will often not read correctly or be complete until it reloads overnite. There is a way to force it to reload but I just don’t bother.
BTW, we just passed thru Rapid City and had to change locals from Sioux Falls even though the Rapid locals showed up in the guide.