Hi,

I live near Chicago. I have a Dish 1000 pointing toward the southwest. My signal for all my local channels and pretty much anything else HD hovers around 45. I've had Dish out a couple of times to try and get it adjusted, because any time we get any kind of clouds with height to the SW, the signal goes out. But neither of the guys that have come out have been able to squeeze more signal out of it.

While driving around today, I noticed that there are many dishes on rooves in my neighborhood and others that are pointing toward the southeast, instead of the southwest. I'd always thought that the dish had to point to the southwest in order to receive channels.

So what's the deal with southeast? Would I be able to get a better signal if I was looking toward the southeast?