man, 119 and 110 are the strongest Dish birds up there! you can afford to lose quite of bit of "signal" strength and not notice a thing.mlaviolette said:
what should be done with a 1000.2 dish is optimize it for the weak 129. if that is done, 119 and 110 come along just fine.
a better bet would be to leave the 500 Dish, put a Dish Pro Plus LNB on it, and set up another 500 dish pointed at 129 by itself. This is a much more reliable setup.