Hi Folks, have a used 211k we are trying to add to our setup. Yes, already checked with Dish on liens.
When chatting with CS to activate and later a Tech, they tell me the 211k is incompatible with our current sat dish. They have someone coming out to switch us to a newer dish this coming week. Which is fine as our HD locals are on 129 and we need the new setup for those to work.
While I don't mind waiting to have it work, I am curious to what prevents it from at least being activated and allowing us to at least recieve what we do now off of 110 and 119 till they get here.
So is it really Totally incompatible, or are the CSR's just giving a generic "it's an HD receiver and YOU are not setup with a slick NEW dish" answer ?
I've tried connecting the 211k to one of the receiver ports on the DP34 and the Coax running to it is RG6. It does show a HD test channel Dish 101 and the Guide Downloads. I assume these show up even without actual activation.
Any chance in Hades of the Install Tech having a Repoint Kit for the SuperDish ? We've only had signal loss a couple times in all these years (unlike neighbors with "new" dish), and would sorta like to keep the bigger dish. If setup correctly do the newer dishes pull in a good signal ? Zip Code is 37873, what should we see as signal if new dish is peaked properly. (Pretty sure I ran across a link with a chart?)
We are in a Western Arc market, so that means a 1000.2 if Super Dish can't be re pointed ?
Current setup is
Super Dish 105
DP34
(2)322's
Thanks for any advise.
Apology's for the rambling post
When chatting with CS to activate and later a Tech, they tell me the 211k is incompatible with our current sat dish. They have someone coming out to switch us to a newer dish this coming week. Which is fine as our HD locals are on 129 and we need the new setup for those to work.
While I don't mind waiting to have it work, I am curious to what prevents it from at least being activated and allowing us to at least recieve what we do now off of 110 and 119 till they get here.
So is it really Totally incompatible, or are the CSR's just giving a generic "it's an HD receiver and YOU are not setup with a slick NEW dish" answer ?
I've tried connecting the 211k to one of the receiver ports on the DP34 and the Coax running to it is RG6. It does show a HD test channel Dish 101 and the Guide Downloads. I assume these show up even without actual activation.
Any chance in Hades of the Install Tech having a Repoint Kit for the SuperDish ? We've only had signal loss a couple times in all these years (unlike neighbors with "new" dish), and would sorta like to keep the bigger dish. If setup correctly do the newer dishes pull in a good signal ? Zip Code is 37873, what should we see as signal if new dish is peaked properly. (Pretty sure I ran across a link with a chart?)
We are in a Western Arc market, so that means a 1000.2 if Super Dish can't be re pointed ?
Current setup is
Super Dish 105
DP34
(2)322's
Thanks for any advise.
Apology's for the rambling post