Receivers that are made in India, coupled with a bird that is crippled and a dish that doesn't have real good sturdiness around the skew bolts. That last point irritates me the most. I can flex a dish out of tolerance real easy because with a skew of 128, there should be 4 bolts to lock the skew in place.
I'm shocked to hear that you are getting 99% on the 129 with a birdog. I can hit 100% on 119 or 110, but 129 only ever maxes out on the dog with about a 70% found. On the receiver, it shows a range of 72-80. I just chocked it up to them parking the crippled Echostar 5 over there instead of a fully functional satellite.
I haven't had return issues for anything other than failed receivers. Even if its next-day, we still get paid on those. We don't eat return trips for their crappy Made In India products. If you're hitting 99%, and using spec parts, then I don't blame you for the return trips, likely just equipment. But I would never know unless I rolled the re-trip.
129 sucks for now. Just like every new thing DISH releases. I prefer doing DISH over DirecTV, but damn those engineers are some real hucksters.
Re: What's with Dish 129 ?
Member #: 40846
Registered: 9/19/2005
Posted:
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Name:
Duane Vick
Name:
Duane Vick
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Occupation:
Installer
Location:
Phoenix AZ
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