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I need some recommendations on equipment for the Dish Network TV satellite setup. Dish(s) Switches etc.

My first question is should I get the equipment from Dish or buy it myself? I visited the sponsors on the site and they seem to offer all the equipment at a good price.

Location-Albuquerque New Mexico. USA. I mention this because I'm not sure if the types of dishes available are specific to the region of the country.

The Available Sky.
146 Deg. Se. To 249 Deg., SW. Aim is high.
209 Deg. Sw. to 246 Deg, W.
246 Deg. Sw. to 291 Deg. W.
291 Deg. W. to 331 Deg.Nw.

The cabling runs are done. Being a licensed electrician, I have run my own cables already. 4 cables of Shielded RG6 –UF from a large media center inside the home to a media box outside the house in the detached garage. The cables are under-ground when leaving the main house to the garage media box. The Dish(s) will be located on the garage roof. The two 8 foot grounding ferrous rods are dedicated for the dish (s) with a compression coupling under-ground with #6 bare copper tieing in the main grounding system. Bonding is achieved at the media box to the garage location power panel. There is an additional grounding bond in the main home media low voltage center to a third ferrous 8 foot rod for equipment grounding and bonding to a sub power panel. RG6 cables from the dishe(s) will be brought into the media box in the garage and bonded. They can be connected to a switch or coupled to the long 40 foot run to the house media center.

All the rooms have two runs of RG6 shielded cable each along with cat 5e cable. These cable run are from the main home media center spanning into 4 rooms. I figured I had all this RG6 cable and cat 5e from some electrical jobs over the years. I would use it and install two runs to each room of RG6. Dedicated surge breakers have been installed for the satellite equipment at the media panels. Tuners and TV equipment etc. also have surge breakers. The branch circuits and breakers were figured at the load calculation of the home.

This has passed inspection by the AHJ and is good to go.

Anything I'm forgetting on the cable? I will be rocking soon to close up all the walls.

The Rooms. Four rooms will have television. Two rooms with HD and, two without HD. I figured I would save some cash by installing some standard receivers in the two bedrooms.

I need one recorder. Buy or lease ? I would rather buy one if I can.

Equipment: Dish or dishes, Tuners, Switches, I need some help here, not my expertise. I can connect them, I just need choose the right equipment.