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    Trouble with Snow outages?

    Hey, thanks for that tip bonscott87. Never thought of that - will try to remember it when the snow starts and dig out one of the kid's soakers. Tried a garden hose a few times but it usually has a chunk of ice froze in it somewhere.
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    No direct line of sight to southern sky

    P.S. to above: check out the thread titled "Satellites and trees" by ldubin in this form. Look at pictures on page 2 of that thread. If he got signal though that little hole in the trees, may be hope for you unless you are wanting to do a 5 LNB setup also.
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    Trouble with Snow outages?

    From my experience, snow will take out the signal so either mount it where you can get to it or put the warmers on it unless you're willing to do with signal until snow melts. About 1/2 to 1 inch of the wet, heavy stuff takes mine out but it takes about 4" of the light, fluffy snow. If you've...
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    No direct line of sight to southern sky

    If you are interested in all the latest programming (local channels, HD etc) the installer could be right or it could be very difficult to do. I had installer tell me same. However, since I am in a rural area with no cable or over the air reception, some TV was better than no TV. I was...
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    Dish 500 or Dish Now Installation

    Dish Now requires purchase of separate Dish Now card. Available at Radio Shack in most areas, probably other retailers. When card purchased it has a PIN on receipt to activate receiver so don't lose that receipt. Card has activaction instructions on it. Takes about 5 minutes to get through...
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    Dish 500 or Dish Now Installation

    After doing a self install of Dish 500 Dual Pro Twin LNB, thought this might help someone doing same in regard to pointing the dish. Dish pointing instructions in installation manual proved to be about as useless as Dish Network tech support when I called for help. Followed installation...