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With the help of this board, I was able to install my Dish 500 so that I could receive Chinese programming off of sat 61.5 last August. Everything is still working great. Now, Dish is offering even more Chinese stations through their "Great Wall" package for the exact same price! Great news...

Just in case anyone is still interested I got my Dish 500 to work with sat 61.5. The receiver that I am using is just labelled on the back as being a "model 2700" with no manufacturer's name. When I locked onto the satellite, it continued to say "Wrong Satellite - Unknown" and I had a signal...

Still stumped Thanks for the responses. Running the "check switch" didn't seem to make a difference for me. I still can't convince the receiver that it's seeing the sat 61.5. My receiver has absolutely no brand name on it nor model number - just says has Dish logo on it. I can lock onto 110...

I have a Dish 500 with what I assume is the legacy dual LNB. All I want is to get international programming. From the Dish web site, I can see that the channels I want are transmitted on satellites 61.5, 121, and 148. I first tried to just point the Dish 500 at 61.5. From my location...

Hello, I apologize in advance for the long and potentially naive posting. The Directv web site used to have all sorts of information on DIY installations and most of that information seems to have disappeared. I do not currently have any DBS service, but would like to install it myself. Where...