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Quick Summary: We can only get 119 and 129 satellites at home. Our Dish 500 DVR is dying. We want to go to HD. Dish came out, but would not install an HD Dish because we cannot receive all 3 satellites. They did verify that we can receive 119 and 129. We don’t care about 110 as we get all...

We get the local HD channels with indoor rabbit ears, so it is not a big deal. Pat

Iceberg: You are correct; we are out by Multnomah Falls. Pat

Jim5506: We have never had 110. All the channels we watch are currently available on 119, so any HD we get on 129 is a bonus. We still will receive USA, SYFI, TNT, and ESPN in SD on 119. NatGeo appears to be on ConUS on 129. We will still get our locals on rabbit ears, and we could continue...

Bobby: Thanks. Basically we would be no worse off than we are now. We have an old 500 receiver (we own it), and it is getting very finicky and has a habit of losing recordings! We need to get a new receiver soon. If we get an HD receiver, we will still be able to get our 119 programming...

Boba: Thanks again, unfortunately there is no line-of-sight to the 110. There is a mountain in the way. We can continue to watch whatever we want in SD on the 119, but we just wanted to try and get some HD. Are you saying that the HD on 129 will not work if we can't see the 110? Pat

Boba: Thanks for the reply. I realize we need a new Dish; that is why the installer was out. Our problem is that there is no LOS to the 110. I know that means that we can't get local channels, but we do fine with rabbit ears most of the time. I know we can get 119, and all the programs we...

HELP! I am really a rookie at the satellite stuff, and have not been able to get a good answer from Dish. We had a Dish Network installer here today, and he was only able to “see” 119 and 129; not 110. He told us that all the local channels are on 110, but could not tell us what other...