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Looking at the house I'm in, it's actually fully surrounded by old old trees - the only reason I can get the 101 is the high elevation and the fact that we were able to shoot through a gap for it. Both 110 and 119 are no gos, even if the dish were mounted on the roof (angle would have been too...

I have this problem too - i live in a heavily wooded area, and although I get 101 clear 110 comes in and out and 119 I don't get at all (except in winter when the leaves are gone.) Part of it also has to do with the low angle in the sky for 119 - supposedly many D* customers have problems with...

I'm no expert, but from what I remember with my old single-LNB (I had a Tivo back in 2001) as long as you are not wanting HD your programming on 101 should be fine, whatever receiver you have...it carries all the SD programming for Total Choice. The installer had to put a multiplexer on the...

I'm blocked for 119 as well, and only get 110 intermittently...I'm hoping the new birds help too The installer mentioned that the low position of 119 in the sky (29 degrees or something) has created a lot of line of sight problems for D* customers.

Some of you may recall I had problems locking on to 119. As the trees have gotten leafy it's gotten worse. So, after a couple marathon sessions trying to point my dish to pick up the 110 and 119 satellites, I finally gave up and called DirecTV to get a tech out. He quickly advised me that...

Yeah, I just posted the same Q

So, I noticed in the press release from D* that this bird was going to serve as an upgrade to 101. Does anyone have any idea what channels they are going to be carrying on this bird? Will any of the HD programming move over to the new 101 from the 119 and 110? EDIT - sorry, someone else...

My houseis pre-wired for cable...I used diplexers on the lines coming from the dish and cable drop and have had no problems routing them to my DVR. Perhaps it's a "try and see" issue

This is what has been so perplexing. Everything seems to hint that I need to point a bit more west -- 101 is at like 95, 110 is in the upper 80s-90s...but not even a hit on 119. When I tweak the azimuth over left, though, the other two just get weaker and I don't pick up 119 at all, except on...

Thanks for the tips. I'm becoming more and more convinced it's the trees - leaves are starting to come in, which might be the difference in not being able to get anything today vice last week when I was messing with it. The installer who originally put it in didn't bother to aim for 119 -...

Thanks Voomer. Yeah, I checked the mast earlier. It's good to go. It's likely I'm just going to have to go out there and tweak with it some more -- the tech support dude said that if you can get 110 and 101 you should be able to get 119 -- I am suspicious of some trees towards the west...

Hey all - hoping someone can give me some help b/c DirecTV tech-support is baffled. Am trying to find 119 on one of those 3-LNB dishes. I can lock on to both 110 and 101 - tech advisor told me to move west a bit, but doing that I get nothing at all. I replaced the LNB -- didn't do anything...