Are Two Dishes Better than One?

[raysmith]

I am upgrading to HD next week.

However, I can’t receive 129 from my current dish location (ground level right next to the house) as it is blocked by my neighbor’s house. It will have to be about 20 feet away from the current location and away from the house to avoid trees. Seems like there are two options:

1. Remove my current dish and install a new, 1000.2 dish in a location where 110, 119 and 129 will all be accessible, or
2. Leave my current Dish 500 where it is for 110 and 119 and add a new dish (Dish 500?) dedicated to pick up just 129.

Are there advantages one way or the other between these options, or some other option I’m not considering? Seems like option two is less disruptive as I can leave the dish 500 alone (except – perhaps for a DPP LNBF upgrade?) and just add the 129 dedicated dish(?) I was thinking that a dedicated dish for 129 might be easier to tune as it sounds as though tuning to hit all three satellite locations is difficult on the 1000.2 – especially for 129. If it matters - I am in the Chicago area (Zip Code 60510). I will be receiving a new 722 box, de-commissioning a 2700 and a 4900 and keeping my 2 508s.

Ray Smith
Batavia, IL

 

[dfergie]

I had 2 Dish 500's 1 for 110/119 and 1 for 129 till this morning when I put my Dish 1000 back up dedicated to 129... (I first set it up this way when I got my 622 a couple of years ago...) works better for me...

 

[FitzAusTex]

If you're not opposed to 2 dishes, then yes you'll probably get higher signal strengths using a dedicated dish pointed at 129, for the reason you mentioned...something has to give a little with a 1000.2, the 3 LNBs in one LNB assembly aiming at 3 sats). 129 is notorious for issues with subs getting weak signal strengths, so a dedicated dish should be better.

That being said, I have a 1000+ (rather than the 1000.2 you're considering) pointed at 110/118/119/129, and my signals are considered good.