johanson
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Sep 3, 2005, 3:04 PM
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Re: [Ron Jackson] Dish network - Lake Chapala region
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It looks like your question made it over to the Technical forum. Let me answer your second question first. You can buy your voltage regulators, surge protectors, and or UPS's in Mexico. But you will not know what you need until you know what neighorhood you are in and have checked out the line voltage and/or talked to your neighbors.
Here is a FIRST DRAFT of a recent article I wrote about DISH in a Guadalajara paper
"I recently received an email from a reader asking if one can get DISH Network in Jalisco using a single 1.2 meter satellite dish and single LNB (receiver located at the focal point of the dish). The answer is, yes, you can get some of the programming offered by the DISH Network, but not all using that 1.2 meter satellite dish.
Dish network offers many programming packages. Their more popular packages include programming from satellites positioned at two locations in space over the equator, one located at 110 degrees West, which requires a satellite dish of about 2 meters in diameter in Jalisco and the other located at 119 degrees West which requires a satellite dish at least 1.2 meters in diameter.
Don’t be mislead by the fact that in the US DISH Network uses one small 20 by 22 inch dish which appears to be pointing at only one location in space. The signal strength in the states is much greater thereby requiring a smaller dish and if you were to look closely you would see that this dish is really two dishes in one with dual receivers (LNBs) each pointing at a separate satellite.
Don’t rule out a single 1.2 meter dish system, yes it is cheaper and you do get some of the programming. I subscribe to the “America’s Top 180” programming package to include my local stations here in Seattle. I’m not sure where they get the 180 number from because at best I receive 159 channels. Of these 159 different channels, 80 are viewable in Jalisco from the satellite requiring the 1.2 meter dish.
If you were to add the 2 meter dish and point it at 110 degrees west, you would only be able to receive 44 additional channels. That’s only 123 of the 159 channels. What happened to the rest of them? My 9 local Seattle channels are on a spot beam pointing at the State of WA and the following channels although pointed at all of the US are too week to easily receive in Jalisco. (8 shopping, 4 educational, 3 misc., 3 music, 2 program guide, 2 foreign language, 1 bingo, 1 news, 1. soap, and 1. style channel)
Yes if you have to have the DISH Network, you can purchase oversize satellite dishes and receive perhaps 3/4 s of the channels you are paying for. However there are small dish satellite systems that work very well in all of Mexico, the Mexican SKY and the Canadian Star Choice systems. I like Star Choice best. On a single 36 by 26 inch satellite dish one can receive all the Star Choice channels to include the US network stations from Seattle and Detroit in high definition. (Warning if your satellite dealer suggests that you need two satellite dishes to get all of the satellite signals from Star Choice, maybe it’s time to look for a new dealer, you only need one dish)"
I HOPE THE ABOVE HELPS
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