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royrdsjr said:

Now that I have D* installed,I can only say wow. The installer put up an (I hope I'm saying this right without having to look it up first) SL3 Dish & gave me an HD22NC-100 HD DVR(i had to cheat & look at the box it came in). Speaking as someone who has never seen a D* receiver of any kind,I like looking at that blue circle on the box. I was so excited about getting D* that I couldn't sleep during the night,so I was up for almost 24hrs when the installer showed up. When he showed up,I explained how I wanted the cables to run into the front window of my living room(I even had the flat cables in the window waiting for him). He wasn't sure about that. He wanted to drill a hole in my wall,but we had no access from my enclosed driveway because of a lot of boxes piled up. We went into my back yard & I guess he was checking the elevation of the trees,because he kept looking through this little box thing in the direction the dish would go. Then he started talking about putting a pole up in my back yard for the dish,& I asked,"couldn't you put it up on the roof?" His eyes totally lit up when I said that(he assumed that I might want the dish in the back yard out of sight,it must have been that kind of day with him before me). He said with a smile,"hell yeah." He said he could put it up in the front on the roof,use my flat cables in my window,& the whole install most likely took no longer than an hour. He hooked me up without any problem,& was impressed with my knowledge of what he was doing(example: I recognized B Band Converters on the cables he hooked up to the receiver). I'm not patting myself on the back,I just had a lot of free time to research & study what to expect during an install to minimize surprises. He said that me cutting down those three trees in my back yard was the best investment I could ever have made. He said people just don't understand that they can't get signal if a big tree is there blocking it. He said that by looking at the tree trunk close to my house(I was too lazy & didn't want to pay extra to have it ground up),he could tell it was a big tree that was standing there. Anyway,the install went great,& both my mother & I are very impressed with D*. She couldn't sleep either because she was so excited about getting it. She loves Great American Country & Charter doesn't carry that.

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lern4483 said:

Glad your excited! This is all fun stuff.

Enjoy it.

Keep us posted...

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royrdsjr said:

Well,I believe I've just had a "well duh" moment. I have just ordered the Spanish package,& I've now come to the conclusion that I won't get it with a SL3 LNB attached to my dish. I have ordered a SL5 LNB to replace it. My question is this,my LOS is great for the 101.0°W satellite,but I'm not sure about the 119.0°W satellite which I believe is where the Spanish channels are. How can I get someone to come out to check if I need to cut down some more trees,& if I do cut them down,if my neighbors' trees will still give me problems? I'm going to need a professional to come & change out my LNBs anyway.

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