SimpleSimon said:Witschey's rants and claims have me a bit baffled, but I'll stick with the 110-29 issue.
For any given "aim" for a few TPs to be affected, it's almost certainly a "knife-edge" attenuation issue. Moving the dish mount something like 6" in any direction will either cure it, or kill 110 entirely. If you can't make that happen, tough.
As for putting the EEPG on 119, well, if it were convienent, I wouldn't discourage them, but overall, we're looking at something like LESS THAN 1% of the customer base that MIGHT be affected. If E* has ANY reason at all to not do it, then they shouldn't.
BTW, this is being posted by someone that regularly rants about how bad E* is, but this is one case where the exception just might prove the rule.
Unlike you I dont make a habit of ranting about how bad Echostar is. In fact I think they are pretty good overall. I think the level fo expertise of their customer support department (both level 1 and 2) is very poor, and this time I had to complaint about the 522 because it has a bug which they didn't want to recognize as a bug; but other than that, I am pretty happy with them. If I wasn't I would simply switch over to DirecTV or one of the other providers.
Thank you to ALL of you for trying to help me solve the issue, but I need NO TROUBLESHOOTING help on this issue anymore.
I am 100% happy learning (AFTER starting this tread...otherwise I would have never found out) that from Mark Lamutt (whose post was originally a reply to a thread I started at DBSTalk) that:
"here's the real story about this, directly from the Dish engineers working on the 522:
There is a bug in the current 522/625 software that is keeping the timers from being defined after the 2-day guide is downloaded. This is a known issue and it is scheduled to be fixed in the next software release. For what it's worth, the 942 does not have this bug.
Once the new software has spooled, the 522 and 625 will once again work just fine and dandy with the 44 hour guide."
So, as you can see I wasn't really 'ranting and claiming' anything. The 522 unit has a software BUG, that Dish Network customer service (level 1 and 2) either didn't know was there (maybe the software engineers didn't tell them)...or they simply didn't want to admit was there.
In either case, I have been told (although I don't know him), that Mark Lamutt is a reliable source for information about Echostar since he almost sleeps at Echostar. Again I don't know him, but I trust that in the next software release for the 522 the issue will be fixed like Mark said. If that is the case the 522 recurring events will work as I want them to work; and that is the end of my complaint. So no need for YOU or Anybody else to continue to spend your time trying to give me tips on how to troubleshoot the issue with the transponders or with anything else.
What I suggest is that we gear this conversation towards the pros (and cons if you can think of any) of either copying or moving the EEPG (9 day guide) to satellite 119.
Please refrain from building your answers around my personal situation. That situation will soon be solved, so PLEASE just put it aside.
I want to know from those of you who have arguments to put the EEPG on satellite 119 (either in addition to the one on satellite 110 or instead of the one on satellite 110), and also from those of you who object.
My point of view is that is SHOULD be done, because there is people in Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands who would benefit from it; and it wouldn't hurt anybody in the continental USA if it were done that way.