AFIK, officially, Dish does not install a 118 only dish and LNBF, but this is not to say that some retailers may, although they should not. If a customer wants internationals only, then the Dish 500+ is to be installed along with the 119 & 110 LNBF, and you are to peak for 119 and a the other sat reception will take care of themselves, or in other words, the system is engineered to peak at 119. Dish does not want any kind of attempt to peak relative to the other sats. This messes with the way it was engineered and the long range plan years ahead. I know there my be some installs where you may have to peak beyond 119, but it should not be the rule.

I know that you are only looking at 118, but your criticism regarding the "pain" in peaking 118 isn't really fair, since Dish does not want peaking at 118, but rather 119 thereby eliminating the frustration of peaking to 118 and other sats on the single dish. 118 is leased capacity. The long term (years down the road) plan is technology allowing (better sats and compression) more channels at the owned capacity at 119 & 110 as 118 will end its usefulness years down the road and must revert to Canadian use. That is why Dish wants the peak at 119. The additional LNBF's for internationals services only installs also allow Dish to add or move , if they have to, internationals--perhaps only a few channels--to the core sats at 119 &110. This gives them flexibility of using 3 sats for internationals should it come to, say one transponder failing at 118. It would be a cram, but it does allow for a fall back especially with Echo XIV being launched.