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Saturday 11/15/03

A friend of mine went to our local DishNetwork Dealer and purchased a Superdish this morning.

We are going to get our locals on Satellite 105 ( Mobile AL. / Pensacola FL. ) the 20th of this month and he did not want to wait for the free upgrade from Dish or have any programing commitment or sign up for Credit Card Autopay. The Superdish he got is the 105 type 2. Total cost was $199.00 plus tax.

Installation.

I went down to his house and helped him with the installation. The Superdish came with a beefed up wall mount..... ( The superdish mount looks identical to the Dish 500 mount Only Larger -- pipe is 2 3/8"od ) We were able to take down his Dish 500 and install the New Superdish Mount in the same location. Changing the mount and preparing three new coax cables took about 30 minutes. Assembling, Mounting, and Adjusting the Superdish took about another hour. He has two Satellite Receivers. A PVR501 which is a Dish Pro Receiver and a 5000 which is a Legacy Receiver. The 3 Lnb's on the Superdish are Dish Pro and will only work with Dish Pro Receivers (unless you install a Dish Pro Adapter) so we only hooked up his PVR501 Dish Pro Receiver...... The software on his 5000 is not upgradeable to the Superdish so he is waiting for Charlie to offer an upgrade on his 5000 before he puts a 2nd receiver back in service.

All and all the installation is simple...... No more difficult than installing a dish 500...... just one additional step to peak the alignment for the 105 satellite..... No reason at all the average Joe could not install this system himself. Before setting the Superdish on the mount we set the Skew and Elevation for our area.... once we had the DP34 switch hooked up, all we had to do was rotate the dish on the mount and Bingo we had a strong signal on the 119 LNB..... we then switched to the 105 LNB and made a slight adjustment to the elevation and then locked everything down on the dish...... back inside we ran a switch check which showed 119, 110, and 105 Satellites Locked.

We went to the Superdish Welcome Channel ( Channel 7000 ) and had a perfect picture. The average signal strength on the 105 satellite was about 74 and about 120 on the 119 and 110 satellites. So he is ready to call DishNetwork this Thursday to have his Locals turned on. He is going to eventually upgrade to a 921 for High Definition and will use his Dish 500 for receiving the HD Channels that are on Satellite 61.5.... That is, when the Dish Pro 44 Switch becomes available.

The Superdish looked great and now works great..... It was a fun day..... Im going to call the same local DishNetwork Dealer Monday and see if he can set me up with the Free Superdish Upgrade and also see if he will let me do the install myself. I have a PVR721 and look forward to being able to record and time shift my locals.

Here's a list of what comes with the Superdish.

Wall / Roof Mounting Bracket
Superdish and all assembly hardware
Dish Pro LNB Assembly for 105 / 110 / 119 satellites
3 piece LNB Rain Shield
Dish Pro 34 Switch.

Keep in mind if you plan to do an install yourself that all 3 LNB's with the Superdish are "Dish Pro" and the 34 Switch is "Dish Pro" and will only work with a "Dish Pro Receiver" or will require a Dish Pro / Legacy adapter to work with Non Dish Pro Receivers..... also keep in mind that some Satellite Receivers ( like the 5000 ) are not Software Upgradeable and will not work with a Superdish configuration.

Hope this information helps. Sorry No Pictures at this time.