I am a current DISH customer living in Knoxville, TN. Sometime next year, I would, like to upgrade from DISH 500 to HD. I am currently pointed to 110, 119, and I have line of sight to 129. That means a 1000.2 should work for that. However, local HD here is on 61.5 and DISH says there is no plan to have local hd on the western arc sats. Also, 72.7 and 77 are out of the question because of trees that are way higher than ~45 degrees line of sight. I have tried to get info from DISH chat and really haven't gotten clear answers except for things like...the installer will take care of it. I have searched the internet also and am not sure that I have gotten clear info. I joined this forum since I have been able to find good information here and I would like to see if I can get help with the following questions.
1. It seems that Knoxville subs will get eastern arc equipment. I simply cannot get 72.7 and 77 because of line of sight. Western arc equipment will work fine (except for local hd obviously). Can DISH get me western arc equipment when I tell them this without much hassle or is it a pain to get this done since Knoxville is an eastern arc market?
2. Since I can get 61.5 with no line of sight problems as determined from my own checks, can another satellite be placed in another location (in this case, high on the corner of the house instead of in the yard) and take care of the local hd channels? 61.5 is the only direction this satellite would receive as 72.7-129 would be blocked by trees and the house no matter where one is placed unless of course it is hundreds and hundreds of feet from the house which obviously is not going to happen. I am pretty sure it can, but wanted to ask it to get to question 3.
3. If the answer to #2 is yes, can anyone tell me what dish I will get for the local hd channels? I know western would be 1000.2 to get the 3 sats. Will the local hd dish be an 1000.4 (eastern) or is it some other type of dish?
4. Since 2 sats would be used, if I get a hopper (maybe with sling), there would be no problems getting all signals from both sats into the receiver and to one joey, correct?
5. Since I would need 2 dishes, does anyone know if this costs more? DISH was not really helpful at all with this.
6. With 2 dishes and a hopper and one joey, I assume each sat will have one cable that comes into the hopper and then one cable goes from the hopper to the joey. Is this correct or does the joey have to have 2 cables to it?
7. Since I assume I would have 2 cables (rg6) coming into the hopper (1 from each sat), does this take up an extra tuner in the hopper which would diminish the number of channels that can be recorded, etc.?
Thanks.
1. It seems that Knoxville subs will get eastern arc equipment. I simply cannot get 72.7 and 77 because of line of sight. Western arc equipment will work fine (except for local hd obviously). Can DISH get me western arc equipment when I tell them this without much hassle or is it a pain to get this done since Knoxville is an eastern arc market?
2. Since I can get 61.5 with no line of sight problems as determined from my own checks, can another satellite be placed in another location (in this case, high on the corner of the house instead of in the yard) and take care of the local hd channels? 61.5 is the only direction this satellite would receive as 72.7-129 would be blocked by trees and the house no matter where one is placed unless of course it is hundreds and hundreds of feet from the house which obviously is not going to happen. I am pretty sure it can, but wanted to ask it to get to question 3.
3. If the answer to #2 is yes, can anyone tell me what dish I will get for the local hd channels? I know western would be 1000.2 to get the 3 sats. Will the local hd dish be an 1000.4 (eastern) or is it some other type of dish?
4. Since 2 sats would be used, if I get a hopper (maybe with sling), there would be no problems getting all signals from both sats into the receiver and to one joey, correct?
5. Since I would need 2 dishes, does anyone know if this costs more? DISH was not really helpful at all with this.
6. With 2 dishes and a hopper and one joey, I assume each sat will have one cable that comes into the hopper and then one cable goes from the hopper to the joey. Is this correct or does the joey have to have 2 cables to it?
7. Since I assume I would have 2 cables (rg6) coming into the hopper (1 from each sat), does this take up an extra tuner in the hopper which would diminish the number of channels that can be recorded, etc.?
Thanks.