the wire that exposed after you strip it. according to the manual it should be only size of the nickle after you slide connection on but on switches you want to make them longer
you cant just up the elevation to clear the trees. i would say have some one from dish to come out, to verify if you are clearing trees or not and see what your options are
i have 1000.2 with DPP 44SW works with no problems. check your connections it sounds like stinger might be a little bit short. also the light have to be on on power supply no mater how it is hocked up
from satellite dish to your receiver sine box is using power. so if there is short it start to buzz. disconnect SAT cable behind receiver see if it stops
go to menu 6-1-3 then look on left lower corner. it would say TV2 UHF grab the new remote press and hold SAT until all lights are on press the same number on screen then pres pound (#). to match remote addresses