I live in the Rocky Mt. West. According to DISH I am eligible for distant feed NBC, and FOX.
This is based upon my distance from the local broadcast site. In spite of my distance, from the CBS and ABC tower, (6 miles or so) I am unable to receive the signal due to my house sitting in a hole behind a good sized hill. Maybe an antenae on a 200 ft pole would work but nothing mounted on my house will get a resonable signal.
I went through the whole waiver program with a big dish years ago and was rejected, but for some reason was able to keep the Denver Networks but not east coast feeds. Then the law changed and I got back all three major networks on east coast feed.
I am told that having networks on c band means nothing for DISH. I sure don't understand the federal law, but why should the type of system matter in my grandfathering of the networks? Is this correct?
Has anyone ever gotten a waiver based upon terrain. Is there a process, to prove inability to get a signal, or does it not matter.
I am ready to pull the plug on a 57 inch Sony and switch to DISH for HD, and would really like to get the full networks and CBS HD.
My neigbor who has had DISH for years has all the networks but still no CBS HD. This sure seems like a very complecated DUMB system or law.
There is no possiblity of cable in this area so unless there is something I am unaware of I must keep the C-Band for ABC and CBS. This seems to make no logical sense to me.
Any better info out there as to what I can do???
This is based upon my distance from the local broadcast site. In spite of my distance, from the CBS and ABC tower, (6 miles or so) I am unable to receive the signal due to my house sitting in a hole behind a good sized hill. Maybe an antenae on a 200 ft pole would work but nothing mounted on my house will get a resonable signal.
I went through the whole waiver program with a big dish years ago and was rejected, but for some reason was able to keep the Denver Networks but not east coast feeds. Then the law changed and I got back all three major networks on east coast feed.
I am told that having networks on c band means nothing for DISH. I sure don't understand the federal law, but why should the type of system matter in my grandfathering of the networks? Is this correct?
Has anyone ever gotten a waiver based upon terrain. Is there a process, to prove inability to get a signal, or does it not matter.
I am ready to pull the plug on a 57 inch Sony and switch to DISH for HD, and would really like to get the full networks and CBS HD.
My neigbor who has had DISH for years has all the networks but still no CBS HD. This sure seems like a very complecated DUMB system or law.
There is no possiblity of cable in this area so unless there is something I am unaware of I must keep the C-Band for ABC and CBS. This seems to make no logical sense to me.
Any better info out there as to what I can do???