When the Leaves Return Will I Notice?

If 1. You are currently viewing your locals
and 2. Your locals are on the 110 sat.
and 3. The 110/119 dish will not be obstructed as your 148 dish is/will be
then, all your getting off of the 148 sat. is a few public interest (P.I.) channels. Your reciever has already "found" your locals on the 110 sat.

If you were to block your 110/119 intentionally, most of your programming (including your locals) would be unviewable. If you feel like it, you may do this just to see what happens, just don't run a "check switch" test while you have anything blocked. BTW, none of your locals would be on the 148 sat. *if* #2 above is correct.

One more thing, if the leaves do completely block your 148, you may still leave the dish alone, take it down, or re-aim it to a different sat location.

If your locals are on 110° they are not on 148°. E* has very few markets on two satellite locations (they do that for transitions - such as moving from 105° to 61.5° where replacing a dish is needed). A move from 148° to 110° does not require much of a transition period since receiving 119° and 110° is considered a default install in most of the US.

As colavsfaninnwia noted - the only content you get from 148° is a couple PI channels (in the 9400 range). It is "something" to watch during outages on the main dish, but not much.

James Long said:

the only content you get from 148° is a couple PI channels (in the 9400 range). It is "something" to watch during outages on the main dish, but not much.

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Well, a foot of snow fell here a day ago, and it filled both dishes. No service. I took a broom to the 110/119 dish and all channels returned including Tier 2 locals. Let the trees grow.