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Lori

I know a friend of mine used to have 2 dishes, 1 for pay channels and one for local channels with DirecTV, but I'm not sure if it's that way anymore.

pghmyn

I've never seen 2 dishes on a house before. I'm going to have to go with the option that those people were too lazy to take their old dishes down when they got new ones.

Aaron62

I'd like to know the answer to this!

kat77

It could be they are just too lazy to take them down. I know people whom got 3 dishes and do even have dish.

kat77

Sometimes, I wonder if they cause siding damages to the home eventual if they aren't taken down.

antkmom

They put up 2 dishes on our house when we ordered dish network. They said that one picked up Fox and other channels, while the other picked up the local stations.

SuzanaD

I am not sure about having two dishes. I have one dish only, and three boxes, in different rooms, so we are able to use one dish for the services.

1inxs

You will occasionally see two dishes with single and sometimes dual feedhorns on each dish. The earliest installations were a single dish with a single feedhorn. As programming expanded some of the installations would have one dish with up to two feedhorns. As the programming was expanded once more, it became necessary to add more feedhorns. The least expensive way for the dealer to add the feedhorns was to add a new old stock dish with the old dual feedhorn configuration. The dealer would simply add another dish to the side of the original and combine the signals from the feedhorns from both dishes. This allowed the dealer to use up their current inventory of obsolete hardware. Satellite providers have since added more programming and it has become necessary for a single dish to include five feedhorns. If you look at the new installations they include a single dish with five feedhorns.

Piggie

DirecTV has an international bird that requires a second dish for international channels.

I have seen dual 4 output dishes side by side. Often on a big house, it's a better signal than going through a 8 port switch out of the dish. Giving better reception for more than 4 TVs.

Dish network has gone through many (I don't know them all ) periods of time in various locatoins their birds were so far apart in the sky to fill a package it took two dishes.

Then I have seen a lot of both companies on a roof, with one not hooked up. ie too lazy to take it down.

A friend of mine upgraded a few years back now to what Dish called the Super Dish. The installer put it up, the owner asked what about the old one? The installer said you can just take it down.

However if you do have one unused, It can be pointed straight up and it makes a great bird bath.

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