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    How do i tell if the my dish is pointed properly for HD?

    I have an original DirectTivo +/-disk replacement from you guys a few years ago.

    A few years ago, i had the local installer come out to deal with some signal problems. They moved the dish location and replaced the dish. They may have done some other re-wiring. I wasn't home for any of this and thus not around to ask important questions.

    How can i tell whether the new dish now points in such a way that i could get HD if I replaced the DirecTivo with an H24? Can i get this information from the diagnostics in some way? Otherwise i'm tempted to switch to cable outright.

    I already know i need to go see if the dish is SWM now and if there are B band things.

    regards,
    Adam
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    If an installer aimed it, I can't see why it wouldn't be right. What makes you think it wouldn't be aimed properly? They have pretty efficient and accurate meters.
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      depends on whether they focused on the meter or the STB

      Given that they do the alignment up on the roof with the meters, I suppose you're right that they probably checked all the satellites.

      It looks like a non-SWM setup. How many wires should there be for the HD scenario two tuner scenario.

      regards,
      Adam

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      • #4
        Well, the dish should have four outputs, but you only need two wires coming down from there to all an HD DVR to use both tuners.
        Been here a long time . . .

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