What DTV Satellite do I have?

Well the dish on the left (looking down at the photo) is called a "Slimline-3" legacy and is the main one for receiving programming from the 99°, 101°, and 103° W.L. satellites.

And the one to the right is for the international "World Direct" service from 95° W.L. Which is going away in maybe a year from now or so.

So first, perhaps the bad news ...

Unless you have the Protection Plan you're going to have to pay $99.00 to have a DIRECTV tech. come out and properly re-align the main dish on the left.

But the good news is that the 95° W.L. int'l dish on the right is no longer necessary and may be removed as the programming for it is mirrored on the new Reverse Band at 99° W.L. Nor do you need the SWiM-8 multiswitch any longer.

All the tech. needs to do is install a SL-3 Reverse Band SWiM LNB on the main dish such as here:

Now is the time to upgrade to the Reverse Band LNB - The Solid Signal Blog

And place a SWiM splitter where the multiswitch currently is.

So you'll only need the one dish on the roof on the left with one coax run from it.

A much cleaner installation ...



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And boy, looking at the dishes in that photo one can instantly see the roofers obviously had no clue whatsoever they were doing ...

As both dishes are clearly pointing in the same direction and each have level tilt settings.

Totally wrong ....

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Too bad you didn't ask before so you wouldn't have had the second dish reinstalled on your new roof.

The consensus is not to remove the base to the second dish should you eliminate that dish. Totally removing it could allow water leaks. But an alternative is to leave the base/pole in place and mount an OTA antenna there for a backup to your local channels.

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Some international channels (korean I think) have not been mirrored and 2nd ODU is still required.

 

Are you sure about that?

As the "datadigesters" team on edgecutter has reported everything on 95W mirrored over to 99(cr) in A3 format for months now. And even got reports that the techs were no longer installing the WD dish.

Just searched the latest TPN map release and everything on 95W shows as duplicated on 99(cr) ...

Can you recall any of those possibly "Korean" channels that are still only on 95W?

As the TPN maps show nothing ....

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I haven't personally installed any international in a year or more but colleagues have reported "some" channels (korean) I thought to not work on RB3 LNB. This was a month or two ago we discussed so possible they are now.

 

Do you mean they are on 99RB now ?

 

They might have missed a couple channels when they first mirrored them, or maybe someone had a bad LNB that was missing evens or odds in 99cr so they only got half the channels and believed some were missing.

Directv has been mirroring everything on both 95 & 119 for a while now, as HoTat2 said.

 

How do I know if I have a reverse band LNB? Is there a way to see in my settings? Could someone guide me in what to look for? Thanks for the help.

 

Looks like this:



One coax coming down from it.

DIRECTV Ultra HD 4K Digital Reverse Band 3 Satellite LNB (3D2RBLNB) from Solid Signal

 

using the remote -menu setting- info& test --Scrolldown to SAT setup and that infor is displayed

 

I posted what it says in my settings. Does this look like I have the newest and best dish available with reverse band LNB? Thanks again for the help.

 

Yep, that's it ...

You have the latest ....

A Slimline-3 Reverse Band capable LNB or specifically a model "3D2RBLNBR0-01" if IIRC for mfr. WNC.

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Okay great. Thanks for replying and for all the help yall!