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Stuart Sweet
03-02-08, 03:47 PM
Question for all you installers or recent installees:

I've seen a new dish around town. It essentially looks like a slimline with a dual LNB head. It has the newest DIRECTV logo on it and the words DIRECTV clearly seen.

Is this the new default dish for home installations?
RobertE
03-02-08, 04:07 PM
I haven't heard or see anything. Although, keep in mind they don't tell us anything unitl we are loading the stuff on our trucks.

If I had to guess, it could be a mini-slimline, with just 99/101/103.
doctor j
03-02-08, 04:09 PM
Pictures Please!!!

Doctor j
Michael D'Angelo
03-02-08, 04:09 PM
If I had to guess, it could be a mini-slimline, with just 99/101/103.

That would be cool but I wanted think they would be installed until the HD channels on 110 and 119 were moved.
RobertE
03-02-08, 04:15 PM
I'll expand on my "thinking".

This dish would replace the basic 18" odu. Not the slimline. It would be used for new SD installations. But, in the long term, has the ability to run HD eq. Most likely is also a SWM lnb.

This would all go along with the long term plans outlined in the recent invester thingy.
TigersFanJJ
03-02-08, 10:47 PM
I haven't seen one either and I'm thinking along the same lines as Robert.
houskamp
03-02-08, 10:50 PM
where's the pictures? I know you'll look like a stalker but...... :lol:
Proc
03-03-08, 07:42 AM
I haven't heard or see anything. Although, keep in mind they don't tell us anything unitl we are loading the stuff on our trucks.

If I had to guess, it could be a mini-slimline, with just 99/101/103.

mini-slimline?
Carl Spock
03-03-08, 08:27 AM
Stuart, given these replies, I wonder if Southern California is a test market for a new dish?
Stuart Sweet
03-03-08, 08:38 AM
I didn't have anything with me but a cameraphone when I saw them (two different locations) but I will do what I can. Obviously I have to respect people's property lines and all.
raoul5788
03-03-08, 09:31 AM
I didn't have anything with me but a cameraphone when I saw them (two different locations) but I will do what I can. Obviously I have to respect people's property lines and all.

C'mon! Be bold! Knock on their door and ask if you can snap a picture. We NEED to see the new dish!
NCMAT
03-03-08, 01:52 PM
Aren't they putting some of the SD locals on 99 and 103? A dish that received 99,101 & 103 would be all that they needed for SD.
curt8403
03-03-08, 02:20 PM
Question for all you installers or recent installees:

I've seen a new dish around town. It essentially looks like a slimline with a dual LNB head. It has the newest DIRECTV logo on it and the words DIRECTV clearly seen.

Is this the new default dish for home installations?


Stuart, that could be the ILG dish 95 and 101
jefbal99
03-03-08, 02:26 PM
Question for all you installers or recent installees:

I've seen a new dish around town. It essentially looks like a slimline with a dual LNB head. It has the newest DIRECTV logo on it and the words DIRECTV clearly seen.

Is this the new default dish for home installations?

Could D* have redesigned the LNB assembly, making a single feed horn for 99/101/103 and a single feed horn 110/119?

that could account for a different design, just a guess.
Stuart Sweet
03-03-08, 02:31 PM
I think it might have been the World Direct dish. I think the LNB head was slightly different (or it might have been my viewing angle) and the silkscreening on the dish was definitely different but it looked quite similar to this image found on the internet:
curt8403
03-03-08, 03:31 PM
I think it might have been the World Direct dish. I think the LNB head was slightly different (or it might have been my viewing angle) and the silkscreening on the dish was definitely different but it looked quite similar to this image found on the internet:

those dishes are a bear to install. Personally I think it would be better if they were a moose.
RobertE
03-03-08, 03:47 PM
I think it might have been the World Direct dish. I think the LNB head was slightly different (or it might have been my viewing angle) and the silkscreening on the dish was definitely different but it looked quite similar to this image found on the internet:

I hate that d@#$ dish. :mad:
curt8403
03-03-08, 04:18 PM
I hate that d@#$ dish. :mad:
:lol: :lol: You and me both... and for the same reason. :lol: :lol:
Canis Lupus
03-03-08, 05:21 PM
Here's the new water-resistant dish:

http://corpcasting.com/CL_Boat_Setup.jpg


:grin:
Supervolcano
03-03-08, 05:56 PM
Here's the new water-resistant dish:

http://corpcasting.com/CL_Boat_Setup.jpg


:grin:
Does he also have the support arms installed that came with it?

They would be "legs" if you will, that will go from each corner of the boat down to the bottom of the lake. This is to stabalize and level the boat so the dish won't go out of alignment in choppy waters.
houskamp
03-03-08, 05:59 PM
Here's the new water-resistant dish:

http://corpcasting.com/CL_Boat_Setup.jpg


:grin:
Some mac guy you are.. I expect better photoshop work from you :p :lol:
curt8403
03-03-08, 06:05 PM
Does he also have the support arms installed that came with it?

They would be "legs" if you will, that will go from each corner of the boat down to the bottom of the lake. This is to stabalize and level the boat so the dish won't go out of alignment in choppy waters.

you could also make some with 25 pounds of concrete per leg and about a 1000 foot heavy chain for each