DISH satelite TV
I recently switched my home service from Direct TV to DISH. In the past I used a winegard MP1 carryout and a SD receiver from home to get satellite while camping. It was a hassle to reconfigure the re...
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Dutch_12078 wrote:TechWriter wrote:Dutch_12078 wrote:TechWriter wrote:
Get an automatic. Manually aiming a dish is more difficult with DISH than DirecTV.
I'm curious why aiming his MP1 at a Dish satellite would be more difficult than aiming it at a DTV satellite?
I believe most of DirecTV's SD programming can be had on sat 101°.
This summer I backed our Jeep into my neighbor's very old 18" single LNB DirecTV dish . . . bent the LNB arm and cracked the tripod. A little duct tape later . . . his 18" is pulling in 90% signal strength . . . and I swear his dish was pointed right at our RV, not the sky.
Anyway, DISH usually has 3 sats -- so you might find yourself manually adjusting the single-sat MP1 from one sat to another. Imagine . . .
. . . you've settled into bed for the night . . . scrolling through the DISH channel guide . . . oh, I'd like to watch this show . . . dang! the show's on a different sat! I'll have to go outside again and adjust the MP1 again! You betcha.
Ahh, ok, I was thinking of it from the standpoint of finding a single satellite. With Dish, nearly everything except the locals can usually be found in HD on 72.7. That's where I usually aim our single LNB manual rooftop dish for short overnight stops when I don't need the 1000.4 triple LNB dish.
To be honest, I don't believe the "bedroom scene" I described is correct . . . the program guide would only display the programming for that one MP1 sat. For example, if the MP1 was locked on 110°, the program guide would only show the programs for that sat.
So you'd never know what you were missing on those other sats.
C'est la vie.
