PapaSmurf1 wrote:
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!
Thank you. However, I thought that 110 also used 8PSK? When I talked to KVH, they indicated that 119 was the only remaining orbital to use QPSK and gave me the coding to program my satellite dish to only seek that one. They also indicated that 119 would likely change sometime in the near future.
Because of all of this, I bought a Winegard X2 Pathway portable dish. I couldn't stomach spending over $1,000 for another roof mounted dish that will likely be obsolete in a couple of years.
However, if I can get 110 to work... I will reprogram it per your suggestion... it will make a good backup.
Thanks,
Ron
