DISH Network update: You may already know that one of the two satellites that most DISH Network clients in central Mexico get their programming from has been replaced by a new satellite that focuses its strength over the United States and has much less signal bleed-over into central Mexico. As a result, about three quarters of the channels on the new satellite are no longer viewable in Central Mexico, even with a much larger Dish. The other satellite that DISH Network users can get their programming from is located at 119 degrees, west.  From Guadalajara, a satellite dish pointing toward that satellite would be pointed to the SW at an elevation of slightly more than 60 degrees. Sadly, this satellite is scheduled to be replaced too, but not until next summer. I say “sadly” because the present satellite has a relatively strong signal in much of Mexico, and we simply won’t know until the new satellite is launched, positioned and turned on whether we will be able to watch programming from that new satellite or not. Some experts are suggesting that coverage in central Mexico will be much worse because the new satellites being launched these days are able to better focus their signals over the United States with less bleed-over into Mexico or Canada.

We will get a better idea of what we might expect in December of this year when another very popular DISH Network satellite, located at 129 degrees W, is replaced.  The present satellite is slowly wobbling.  And the signal, using a very large dish, is watchable 50 percent of the time in Central Mexico. The channels would come in for about 75 minutes as the satellite pointed south and would go out for about an hour as the satellite pointed (wobbled) further to the North.

Should the new satellite also focus its signals more closely over the United States with less bleed-over into Central Mexico, chances are great that all of the DISH Network satellites will be that way and that DISH will no longer be the system of choice for Americans in Central Mexico.