Thanks to everyone for the info - I'll try when I make it home today. Traffic around DC is miserable with the innauguration preparations going on... I hope I can find the number that the Receiver dials in this same menu screen as well - it would be safer from a security standpoint to add the...

Gotcha. Install tech told me that DISH called the receiver. Understood about the hightly reboot, thanks for that too. So now this DOES become an issue, because there is a call-blocking feature enabled on my home phone line that prevents long distance calls from being made without a PIN...

..Looking for a technical description of how DISH can call my receiver(s) via my home phone line, and my receivers will pick up that 'call' without the rest of the telephones ringing.... this happens virutally every morning in the 0300 hour. You can hear the receiver 'wake up', and then 'go back...