Is that a module that goes into the DiSH rx?

Don't you still need antenna for tablo offair?

It does local ch's...?

If cable can't hold bb subs, it's really cooked

Hm, that whole DPP system was designed to integrate a separate wing LNBF right into the Twin or Triple main LNBF. ViPs never had trouble, surprising hopper would. I would have guessed there's significantly more subs on WA than EA, if only because WA was all they had during their main growth...

They just can't keep all that space segment going like they used to. Adding the EA was premised on them having 10m subs and growing. Now they just can't afford it all to hang onto subs that are regardless dropping daily.

Cabling has been made as direct-burial since well back in the C-band day. Either 4/5-leg "ribbon" cable with conductors to run feed rotor & actuator or 1-2 conductor coax-only. In the earlier day conduit would often be used, but that itself can be problematic if water allowed to get inside as it...

I guess that would stand to reason- lower orbit (than geo) = movement faster than earth rotation whilst a higher orbit = movement slower than rotation. Plus you don't want a sat coming across other geosats on the trip

Or like I mentioned, without contractions you could end up with an "LNABDCF". Yes, probably the first LNBs were referenced as LNBA (could have as easily been LNAB), then shortened just to LNB. The F was then added to distinguish between an LNB without an integrated feedhorn(s) and one with. The...

Sounds reasonable. DiSH was always big & strong on coming out with ever-advancing technologies- it just wasn't so big & strong on serving cx's

DP Twin or DPP Twin are equally compatible with 612. Make sure it's not an early Twin; those are not DP (though that can actually be used, with dual-run coax). Need to use a high-freq. splitter at the 612 (to connect both sat tuner inputs) if a single coax run to the dish. Most likely cause for...

My 722k's doing fine...

So this is at the sat transmission level? Which rx's use it? Everything hopper-forward? Now I'm even more confused. The info says that DPH, which we've previously established to mean DishPro Hybrid, is backward-compatible with all rx's that can use DP & DiSEqC- how far back in rx's would that...

All I can make of this is that they switched to a different stacking scheme (as above) for the hopper given its extended # of tuners, named it DPX, and then renamed or redesignated the (old) DP/DPP scheme as DPZ (evidently to distinguish from DPX). The DPX scheme operates by FSK (what's this?)...

Ditto. That was like a tech specs for DP, which came out over 20 years ago. Really it just describes what kinds of rx's work with it rather than how it works. Now we need to hear specifically about what DPX and DPZ even are (in addition to DPH) as well as FSK stacking. My imagination takes me to...

Also we haven't explained what block downconversion (the 'B' in LNBF) exactly is. An LNA (either standalone or as the front section of an LNB/F) simply amplifies the satellite signal without altering its frequencies. On early C-band systems, the LNA was connected to a downconverter, usually via...

LNBF doesn't include antenna, which would be the dish. The feed (F) is simply the "horn(s)" that face the dish to collect the signal. I guess it by that could be considered to contain a "component" of the antenna- a device to collect & convey the dish's reflected signal. LNAs and LNBs need to be...

I really only did 1 of those that I can recall, and I didn't like it. Maybe like 2007.

Well, all of their malfeasance, misconduct & mismanagement is going to go away within a few years as they rightfully lose cx's in droves and will be compelled to either shutter satellite altogether or to maintain an unprofitable basic rural service. DPH, apparently, which would only make sense...

Their names were too confusing

Yeah, beat me to that one. 500 goes way back. Back to when, well, the chatter was about a "500-channel universe". So that's basically how it got its name. Dish didn't have enough xpdrs at a single location (like DTV did at 101) to keep expanding ch's. The original single dish wasn't dubbed the...

Right, and then the Triple needed just a bit more size...the 500 was still not a bad compromise for size. It's when DiSH started going behind my back taking out 500s for SD & 3/4 (SW34) switch that I got my back up. I don't think that the 500 ever officially went away, but the last LNBF offered...

What SD is even still up?

DiSH's intro of a dual-arc paradigm represented its zenith as a service provider. Charlie thought he could sidestep local servicing and that the good times would roll on endlessly.

That looks like RFK jr.