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    Why do dishnetwork use an installer on upgrade?

    Yes, you need an upgrade, he will put in a 1000.2 a separator, a couple of diplexors to backfeed and you are good to go
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    Dish courtesy call

    yes, they monitor via phone line or broadband connection, if your signal is below the threshold for certain transponders/satellite for your area, they will call to set up a service call, and troubleshoot over the phone. This increased monitoring, is projected to help reduce churn, because they...
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    No Ground Wire On New Dish Installation

    IF your dish gets a direct hit, it will blow out the roof no matter if the cables run through it or not. Grounding a dish doesn't protect from lightning strikes it reduces the chance of the dish getting hit by lightning. By correctly grounding the system, ie utility ground within 15 ft of the...
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    I want to go back to dish- questions.

    622 plain and simple
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    Dish and a PC-TV Tuner Card,possible?

    get a modulator and take the TV 2 RCA outputs to the modulator which will convert to channel 3 or 4 and than send to your distribution, your PC will pick it up than, should be around $15-40 depending on where you pick one up
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    HD "locals/networks" in North Dakota

    your best bet is an external antenna, as with your tower locations, you should be able to pick up PBS, NBC and ABC OTA HD.
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    Question about Dish Pro Plus DPP Separator #123254

    that is correct, second cable, how about off air antenna, for local HD channels would be a safe bet
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    Interesting situation

    i don't see your point at all in this situation, most services similar to satellite offer reduced costs to new customers who agree to a lease, because of the guaranteed revenue stream, so why would they give the same deal to someone, lose money on the receiver and not have a guarantee on...
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    New Construction Initial Hookup

    actually the best set up for prewire, is 5 wires outside with one cable at least being messenger, 3 RG 6, and 2 cat5e to each location in the house, you end up with plenty of cable to do anything, a phone hookup and internet hookup at each location. , but with your setup, he needs to install the...
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    DP Plus Twin LNB with DP34 switch??? HELP!!!!

    why not get 2 DP duals and save more money?? using a DPP twin in this situation isn't necessary save 60 bucks and put in a couple of duals
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    Dish 500+ /1000 Instalation Manuals and Product Info

    118.7 is a FSS band and not compatible with your other lnbs and switches, if you need this you don't have a choice but to upgrade, PS the dish is almost as big as a super dish
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    625 tv1 modulation problem

    One is your syhstem grounded? 2 is the plug in used by the receiver and TV grounded(3 prong)? 3 have you tried a different TV to verify it is the reciever?
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    Looking for exert help/advice

    or why not buy a cheap little ch 4 modulator, hook your antenna and tv 2 together first, than run into the antenna port of the combiner, run your sat feed into the ch 4 input and it should clear everything up. that is how I have my 625 hooked up to feed the whole house, so you can have either...
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    Number of dishes

    you will need either a dish 1000 or the 61.5 bird for your 622, it comes with the install
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    The ABSOLUTE Dumbest Level 2 HD tech on the Planet!

    so what you are actually saying is you have 2 dishes on the roof, one 500 and one 1000 dish. the 1000 doesn't have a triple LNB, it has 1 Dish Pro Plus Twin, and 1 DP single, as far as them saying that you needed a 44, they actually were correct (they just didn't give you the right reason why)...
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