Oh, so you're gonna start on the "burn up" or "burn out" stuff. Tell me exactly what's going to happen. Believe you me, it'll work fine. The cable's not going to burn up or anything like that. The receiver won't malfunction because of it either.
What exactly will happen is the cable WILL STOP WORKING. It is exceeding it's specifications significantly. The "Burn out stuff" as you so put it, Is absolutly correct. I've been in this business for almost 5 years, so I think I know a bit more about this than you.
I know that it's less than ideal. I wouldn't use it if it's avoidable. But I had no other choice. In order to get a new cable there I would have to tear out about six different sections of drywall.
If you want you can look at the actual specs of RG59 and see that it's not the ideal cable type but in many cases it will work.
So he wouldn't be able to wall fish it for you. Boo hoo. An exterior wallpen would be your only option. And it will be when your 59 stops working and you call crying to Dish about why your system stopped working. I have looked at te specs for 59. Have you seen any 59 rated to 2150 MHz? No? Didn't think so.
Well, technically, it's possible. I already did. It works. Whether or not the installer is allowed to is a different question. I'm not sure that he was allowed to, but he did anyway at my insistance, and it worked as I expected. He wanted to staple the cable to the baseboard (not going to happen). If it didn't work I was going to run the cable through the walls...but again, I'd need to knock out drywall in six different spots. That takes days to fix. So my first idea was to try it as is, and it worked.
Now explain to me how if it works now it's going to all of the sudden fail.
It is truly unbelievable that you actually said that. Ignorant know-it-all customers like you are the ones that make my life difficult. It's very simple as to why it works now, and will fail later. For the same reason the crappy radio shack low frequency barrel connectors stop working after a while. (Gotta love those customers that refuse to let you change out their radio shack "gold" series barrel connectors with high frequency ones that are actually designed for Stacked frequencies.) And the same reason you have to use certain grades of electrical wiring for different power loads. It works for a while. From the first second it is powered up, it is exceeding the limits of the cable design significantly. It is continually overloading cable, creating constant degradation until the cable no longer functions. I see this all the time. At least 1 or 2 trouble calls a week I go to are due to DP and DPP systems connected to RG-59 WHICH HAS FAILED. I've seen some last up to a year, but most of the time the cable stops working within a couple of months. External switches seem to accelerate the process. First their signal begins fluctuating wildly, then they start gradually losing transponders in the higher frequency range. 110 xpndr 2 is usually the first to go. The same thing happens if we don't change out the stock low freq barrels that come in most standard wall plates.
The reason Dish techs are not allowed to use RG-59 is because it is a major trouble call driver. So enjoy it while it lasts.
Oh, and about the tech that you badgered into using the crappy junk wiring in your walls, he shouldn't have done that. We are instructed to not use 59. If the customer insists and will not let us run new cable, we are to cancel the job. No ifs ands or buts.