I was an early adopter of DirecTV due to my hatred of the local cable company. I had to install my first dish.
Over the years I've had a number of receivers that were immune to ham band signals (1500w), but had ONE that was terrible. One watt of RF on 40m would render it useless as it turned on and off, recording programs at random. Research showed this receiver was notorious for this, but DirecTV would do nothing about it, claiming it was my fault yadda yadda.
I had to unplug it to get on 40m. All attempts at blocking RF from getting into the box had no effect.
I finally ponied up for a different receiver/DVR, and since going HD have had zero problems. But be warned, most installers know nothing. Insist they ground the dish as the NEC requires, or they won't do it. I haven't detected noise from the system, but in my neighborhood it's often S6-S9 anyway.
73 Eric WD6DBM
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