Agreed. Your settings are a starting point. But you may have to change your elevation by a few degrees. Search Craigslist for a Dish installer who can come out for some extra side money. It might be worth it for him to spend a few minutes fixing it versus you spending several more hours trying to do it. The rcvr will pick up the signal before the software is downloaded. How else would the software download without the signal present. You just can't view the programming without the software. If you want to try the TV on the roof trick, that will work. Kind of cumbersome though. Or better yet, just call your cellphone from your home phone, place the home phone headset by the rcvr. Go up on the roof and put your cellphone on speaker, and listen for the tone to turn to the high pitch indicating you've got the signal.