As some of you may have read from my past posts, I have been debating figuring out a way to get both 129 and 61.5 satellites since it appears that Dish will be splitting the RSN HDs onto seperate birds.
I still qualified for a Dish 1000 from my previous 622 install (current set up is a Dish 500 for 110/119 and a second Dish 500 for 61.5). I set up to have the installer come out and when he got here I explained the situation. These guys have been pretty cool with me in the past and this time was no exception. He said that he could put up the 1000 and leave the second Dish 500 pointed at 61.5, but he instead suggested that he just put up a third Dish 500 and dedicate that to 129 since the signal strength would be better (none of the installers from this company like the Dish 1000, it seems).
He did the install and everything went fine. I now get both 61.5 and 129. It appears that the 622 is using signal strength as a decider for which bird it pulls from for a given channel. Since I get a higher signal off the 129 most everything in HD looks like it is getting pulled from that one. But the 622 should still pull channels for anything that appears on the 61.5 bird but not on the 129. May be a bit of overkill but if Dish does split those RSNs up then I will hopefully get all of them. I'll keep y'all posted!
I still qualified for a Dish 1000 from my previous 622 install (current set up is a Dish 500 for 110/119 and a second Dish 500 for 61.5). I set up to have the installer come out and when he got here I explained the situation. These guys have been pretty cool with me in the past and this time was no exception. He said that he could put up the 1000 and leave the second Dish 500 pointed at 61.5, but he instead suggested that he just put up a third Dish 500 and dedicate that to 129 since the signal strength would be better (none of the installers from this company like the Dish 1000, it seems).
He did the install and everything went fine. I now get both 61.5 and 129. It appears that the 622 is using signal strength as a decider for which bird it pulls from for a given channel. Since I get a higher signal off the 129 most everything in HD looks like it is getting pulled from that one. But the 622 should still pull channels for anything that appears on the 61.5 bird but not on the 129. May be a bit of overkill but if Dish does split those RSNs up then I will hopefully get all of them. I'll keep y'all posted!
