The bad news:
- install and peaking looks difficult. The manual specifically says using a receiver to peak the dish is not acceptable
- Its a big dish - they recommend using braces against the mast for all installs. This makes sense, as with the larger dish, not only is the dish a bigger wind-catching sail, the larger dish has a narrower focus on the satellites.
The good news:
- The dish does appear to have a built in multiswitch, so if you only need up to four outputs, there's no need for anything else.
- From the news coming out of Detroit, it appears the dish + install are free (or maybe $50? - not too bad). I'm going to let the pros handle the install of this monster.
- Since I get all 15+ local Digital stations OTA just fine now, I don't think I'll need to worry about the install of this dish for quite some time... unless DirecTV actually starts some national programming through Ka - any recent rumors on that?