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(a) the 303 is over 5 years old and the Directivo is over 2 year old. Are those "new receivers"? (b) The signal comes in a straight line from the 119 sat to the dish. Even if the elliptical dish appears to be "focussed on a different area", it can't get a signal if the 119 direction is...

I currently have a round dish pointing to the 101 sat. I have a Directivo (series 1) and a Phillips 303, both relatively old receivers. I want some channels that are on 119 (not spot beam), but I first want to check whether I have a line of sight to 119 before ordering the elliptical dish...

Yes, of course.

As I said in the original post, Dish DOES offer it, so it must be profitable. $5/month plus the cost of the premium channels. Iceberg's post says he gets local channels from Dish the same way, no package required.

Yes, he has had Dish guys crawl around on his roof with compasses and clinometers. And the tree is the neighbor's, not his own; this is a problem with the 119 sat being so far west of us. I wonder why Directv won't compete with Dish for subscribers with specific channel preferences.

Some years ago I had a $7 minimum subscription to Directv (gave me Bloomberg channel and nothing else) to which I added a premium channel. (I did not want the base channels because I had them on cable already---why I did not give up cable is a separate discussion). Anyway I recently mentioned...