I just called VOOM and told them I had bad rain fade (I'm in Ohio, where the sunshine is gray). They said call back the next day to see if I was approved. I called, I was approved, they are shipping the dish to my installer. No problem.
Columbus, Ohio: Prostar Digital came Saturday just before noon. Installation went pretty smooth. Thankfully he let me hook up the STB myself - no one but me could intrepret the veritable rat's nest of wires behind my gear.
I am running the STB into a Component Video input on my Mistubishi 62"...