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To: SirAlexx who wrote (746)	4/15/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: Carter Patterson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1394

The movable satellite dish has another BIG problem.... What if you have 3 to 4 receivers in your house and two people want to watch two different shows that are on different satellites... What's nice about the two-dish system of DISH is that it is completely invisible to the user. The receiver simply has more channels on it. Users have no idea what channel is served from each satellite. It just works. For somebody who is going to have a professional installation, there only concern should be the outside appearance of the two dishes. For somebody who wants to do it themselves, its going to be more difficult. Doesn't FutureTrak target RV and house boats for satellite acquisition? Perhaps they could make a single mount with two dishes...and/or perhaps they could design a new type of antennae that could receive the signal. I'm just dreaming and I understand why the dish is concave but if you don't ask the questions you won't get the answers. What a great week for DISH. Look out $80.