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06-13-05, 07:53 AM
Thought some who are considering the 942 might find my experience useful and/or interesting.
I had my 942 "installed" on Saturday. My install included adding a dish at 61.5 to get my must carry locals, and I took advantage of the Voom package as well.
E* sent one of their many contractors out. My dish is on the roof, and the plan was to replace the old legacy LNBs on my current dish with a Dish Pro Twin. Then he would add the second dish, and run the lines down to my basement (I have runs for all the TV locations in the basement. All of this was then going to plug into a DPP44 (if he brought one).
Well, the guy seemed to know what he doing even though he was a bit surprised at my various inquiries about his plan. The only problem was, he couldn't handle working on my roof. Now I know it's steep, but he just couldn't figure out how the other installer had managed to get up so high on my roof. Thus, he asked if he could mount the new dish lower on the roof, and then install another dish instead of replacing the LNBs on the old dish. Given that I had seen him nearly fall of the roof, I told him to go ahead. (I'm planning on having some hard core antenna guys come out to put an OTA antenna up for me, and I'll probably have them remove the now defunct dish.)
Once the dishes were in place, he came into the basement and hooked up the DPP44 -- not only did he have one but he didn't balk about using it. I really wanted this one rather than a DP34 because I wanted the single line run to the 942 (I actually have two lines that run there, but the other one has basic cable and I'm planning on combining that up with my OTA). My two other boxes, a 501 and 4700, were also hooked up. The required power inserted was located with the 501 box.
Well the first check switch on the 501 and 4700 went fine, but the 942 balked on the check switch. We tinkered a bit with the wiring (I had a surge protector on the wiring path to the 942 which we removed). The installer seemed surprised that the check switch wasn't working properly after taking out the surge protector. In particular, instead of doing 4 tests on tuner 2 it was doing 38 tests. I suggested the old standby -- reboot. He seemed reluctant, deciding instead to try a different seperator then the one that came with 942. While he went to his truck to get it, I rebooted the machine. Shocker! It worked just fine after that.
He was ready to bolt after that. Not that I blame him. I gave him a tip, and he went out and collected all his stuff and left.
I can't say the process was super smooth, but he tried hard. Moreover, I'm very pleased to have a DPP 44 switch because you never know when you'll have another satellite to point at. And, of course, the 942 is pretty sweet.
I had my 942 "installed" on Saturday. My install included adding a dish at 61.5 to get my must carry locals, and I took advantage of the Voom package as well.
E* sent one of their many contractors out. My dish is on the roof, and the plan was to replace the old legacy LNBs on my current dish with a Dish Pro Twin. Then he would add the second dish, and run the lines down to my basement (I have runs for all the TV locations in the basement. All of this was then going to plug into a DPP44 (if he brought one).
Well, the guy seemed to know what he doing even though he was a bit surprised at my various inquiries about his plan. The only problem was, he couldn't handle working on my roof. Now I know it's steep, but he just couldn't figure out how the other installer had managed to get up so high on my roof. Thus, he asked if he could mount the new dish lower on the roof, and then install another dish instead of replacing the LNBs on the old dish. Given that I had seen him nearly fall of the roof, I told him to go ahead. (I'm planning on having some hard core antenna guys come out to put an OTA antenna up for me, and I'll probably have them remove the now defunct dish.)
Once the dishes were in place, he came into the basement and hooked up the DPP44 -- not only did he have one but he didn't balk about using it. I really wanted this one rather than a DP34 because I wanted the single line run to the 942 (I actually have two lines that run there, but the other one has basic cable and I'm planning on combining that up with my OTA). My two other boxes, a 501 and 4700, were also hooked up. The required power inserted was located with the 501 box.
Well the first check switch on the 501 and 4700 went fine, but the 942 balked on the check switch. We tinkered a bit with the wiring (I had a surge protector on the wiring path to the 942 which we removed). The installer seemed surprised that the check switch wasn't working properly after taking out the surge protector. In particular, instead of doing 4 tests on tuner 2 it was doing 38 tests. I suggested the old standby -- reboot. He seemed reluctant, deciding instead to try a different seperator then the one that came with 942. While he went to his truck to get it, I rebooted the machine. Shocker! It worked just fine after that.
He was ready to bolt after that. Not that I blame him. I gave him a tip, and he went out and collected all his stuff and left.
I can't say the process was super smooth, but he tried hard. Moreover, I'm very pleased to have a DPP 44 switch because you never know when you'll have another satellite to point at. And, of course, the 942 is pretty sweet.