1000.2 WA Dish or Two Dishes?

[Bob55]

Would there be a significant signal strength gain if a Dish 500 was used for 110 and 119, and use either a Dish 500 with I adapter or a Winegard 24 inch dish for 129 instead of a using a 1000.2 WA dish for all three sats?

 

[Jim5506]

The winegard 24" would definitely give you more signal on 129, just because it is probably 2X the surface area of a D500.

As far as the D500 VS D1000.2, Dish designs their dishes to gather about the same signal whether it is a single double or triple lnb dish.

The more lnbs the exponentially bigger the dish must be because the signal is more and more out of focus for each individual lnb.

 

[Drizzt]

From what I've seen in the field, using a solo dish for the 129 is almost always going to have better signal strength.Unless you get some extreme weather, the 1k.2 setup should be more than sufficient, assuming the install is done properly and it has a quality lnb