Det Locals in HD living in Toronto

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I live in Toronto and have a legit Dish 1000.2. I get all the ch from all three sats except for the Detroit (were the account is) Local in HDs. Can someone explain this? I'm I outside the spot beam? Is there a solution?
 
Detroit HD channels are very tight spot beam at 61.5° that doesn't reach Toronto. They are also temporarily at 118.75° which does reach Toronto, but requires a Dish 500Plus or 1000Plus.

See ya
Tony
 
The soptbeam on 61.5 that covers Detroit only goes as far as Cleveland. I found that out the hard way when I moved to Cleveland to try to get HD locals. The SD spotbeam 9 covers Rochester and Cleveland so I got my sd locals but not the HD locals.
 
Detroit HD channels are very tight spot beam at 61.5° that doesn't reach Toronto. They are also temporarily at 118.75° which does reach Toronto, but requires a Dish 500Plus or 1000Plus.

See ya
Tony

Having a Dish 1000.2, I could simply run another dish into the input and be go to go?
 
Detroit HD channels are very tight spot beam at 61.5° that doesn't reach Toronto. They are also temporarily at 118.75° which does reach Toronto, but requires a Dish 500Plus or 1000Plus.

See ya
Tony

How long have the Detroit HD locals been on 118.75? Why / when would they move them off 118.75?
 
ABC and CBS started at 118.75° on July 5, 2006. NBC started on July 17 the same year. The Fox followed later. At the time there was no room at 61.5. Eastern Arc wasn't even a plan yet. They will eventually leave 118.75° but I have no idea when.
 
I live in Toronto and have a legit Dish 1000.2. I get all the ch from all three sats except for the Detroit (were the account is) Local in HDs. Can someone explain this? I'm I outside the spot beam? Is there a solution?


Wouldn't you be in the Buffalo spot beam? You might even get Buffalo HD OTA.
 
If you are in Toronto, why don't you simply subscribe to Star Choice?
Detroit HD is part of their basic HD package CBS-NBC-FOX-ABC & National PBS.
 

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