Hello, I am new here and would like to know if my old elliptical dish network would be any use to me? I measured it and I got 34" or so if that helps any. I do not have a lbn on it or a switch.
Just looking for some info about my dish.
Thanks.
As is the usual answer: it depends.
Dishes are shaped to cover a specific set of satellites and designed to work with specific LNB sets, brackets, etc. You said it measures about 34" across. If it is a Dish network dish, that pretty much isolates it down to what they call a SuperDish. The information I found a while back says this is intended for three satellites at 105°, 110°, 119° or 110°, 119°, 121°. You probably wouldn't hit 10°, 119° and 129° with this dish.
You need to look at the programming you are interested in then go to "The List" at the top of the SatelliteGuys pages and see which satellite(s) those channels are on. I'm not sure about the eastern part of the country but in the western part, most programming is on 110, 119 and 129. The latter is (or was) mostly HD. Search for Eastern Arc for eastern US satellites.
A lot of the international programming is on 118° which requires what Dish calls a 1000 Plus dish and LNB set.
New dishes are normally provided with new subscriber installs or existing subscriber upgrades so the question might be rhetorical. If you are returning to Dish or planning on upgrading your existing system, I'd just negotiate the best installation cost and let the installer do what's needed to the dish.
