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PapaSmurf1
Dec 08, 2016Explorer
Dish Network uses 3 different satellites (110, 119, & 129) for all of their channels (if on Western Arc). If you are only connecting to 119, you are only getting a portion of the channels you subscribe to. Programming your KVH dish antenna to 110 and 119 will include more of the channels in your programming package but not all of them. You may not receive the entire lineup in your package because the manual programming above does not give you a connection to the 129 satellite. (I found the 129 satellite has the majority of the HD programming, the same station is often on 119 satellite in SD).
My older KVH Tracvision R5 does not have the ability to lock onto 129 because it uses QPSK to find and lock onto the signal, the 129 satellite uses 8PSK encoding. (8PSK is more efficient and can get more programming into the bandwidth available).
Here are a list of channels on the 110 satellite: http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/Dish-USA-110W.html
Hope this makes sense!
My older KVH Tracvision R5 does not have the ability to lock onto 129 because it uses QPSK to find and lock onto the signal, the 129 satellite uses 8PSK encoding. (8PSK is more efficient and can get more programming into the bandwidth available).
Here are a list of channels on the 110 satellite: http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/Dish-USA-110W.html
Hope this makes sense!
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