Thanks for your comments.
Hello moved around twice - On transponder 11, now have signal strength of 70 on 110W and 54 on 119W. Considerably better numbers than in the dark last night.
But still no 129W. I guess it is behind trees. No one addressed addressed the azmith elevation question on 129. I'm not sure where it is.
Regarding Direct - not an option for me as I actually have a stick house in an Alabama county with an Atlanta DMA. To change to Direct means I have to get Atlanta for 6 lousy months, then "move" to the Birmingham DMA where dish thinks I live. However, Direct service is already at that address and the FCC DMA cops then go crazy.
Also, this afternoon the RV next door had more trouble getting Direct dialed in the first time than I had with moving dish around twice. We travel around quite a bit and I got Dish 1000.2 in both Maine and New Hampshire as well as Oregon & California.