It is really ridiculous to sell the Dish 1000's with a really "marginal" 129 signal. My contractors have lost business because of the eradic problems with that bird. Dish is refusing to grant any extra monies to the dealer/installer to put up a second "wing" dish.
If they are moving more of the HD to 129 and a solution is not found, Dish will lose their leg up on DirecTV on quantity of channels available, especially now until DirecTV gets their problem 5 lnb dishes fired up.
This time, the customer and field people lose,,,,,