I don't have any idea what LNB's I have. They were installed about 2 years ago now on the Dish 500 system we have. Our zipcode is 44654. I'm definatly pulling the RG-59 (sounds familier to what's in there) anyway if we keep the cable. The basement apartment we are moving in has a suspended tile ceiling and all they did was drop a feed through the tile where the last people had a tv. Looks unfinished and unprofessional to say the least. I'll be dropping it through the walls and putting in plates for a more finished look in several rooms.
I did some further looking around today at some other locations I may be able to use. I talked to the landlords and found I can install in the front of the house on the backend of the lot in some grassy area. I checked a rough distance (my shoe is exactly 12") stepped heel to toe, and got a distance of 65' from potential pole site to the access hole into the wall. I was thinking 150' because of what the install manual said and will try to stay under that if possible. I'm not sure if I'll stay under that distance if I put the receiver in the living room though. I stepped off about 65' with drops to that location from the wall access hole. I'll check tomarrow to make certain If I'm understanding your numbers correctly the 110 sat is actually about 10 degrees back towards the left of the 119 sat. If I'm understanding that right the location I'm looking at may work if we can get the distance handled. As I mentioned I may end up setting the receiver in the closest room and just run the signal to the tv itself.
I also got a chance to see the landlords television again today. They may just have a problem with their television set also. I took a closer look at the picture and damn was it off color leaning towards red. it also seems like the whole picture is out of focus as well. Almost like taking off your prescription glasses and trying to look at something. It's an old Zenith set from what I saw. Hell, maybe I'll get lucky and they'll see the picture the sat gets and get emm to pick up a new tv and let me hook up the dish in their place upstairs. Knock a little out of the rent, wink wink, for hooking them up with a receiver. (Yea right.
they are older and probably don't even notice something wrong with the tv.)
I'm looking at running RG-6 for the cable service and the sat service inside the house. the run outside will most likely have to be put underground about an inch or two if we move out and have to take it up. What type of cable outside would be best or the lowest loss within price reason?
Thanks for all the help yall are giving. It's definatly doing some good.