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09-20-2009, 07:08 PM
| | SatelliteGuys Freshman | | Join Date: Sep 20th, 2009 Location: wheeling
Posts: 8
| | | HELP Can't get locals and live in remote area
I recently switched over to dish after having directv for 7 years, with directv I had nbc, fox and abc out of ny. Dish told me I would get Pittsburgh locals with my zip code provided. When installed, number one LIE. Now I can only get FOX. I have been denied by all other networks. I live in a town that no locals are provided through the dish.
I've recently heard of MOVING and would like more info on this. The next town about 10 miles away does indeed get Pittsburgh locals.
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09-20-2009, 07:11 PM
| | SatelliteGuys Freshman
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| | Join Date: Sep 20th, 2009 Location: wheeling
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some more info to provide you. I live in a valley, surrounded by trees so roof top only gets my local cbs. I am so tired of fighting with DISH, allamerican and the stations that denied me.
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09-20-2009, 07:12 PM
|  | The Uplink Report Dude | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Jun 8th, 2005 Location: Louisiana
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What zip code are you in? are you trying to get HD locals or SD locals?
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09-20-2009, 08:23 PM
| | SatelliteGuys Freshman
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| | Join Date: Sep 20th, 2009 Location: wheeling
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zip is 26059 but like I said next town is only maybe 10 miles(15376) to me and I put their zip in and Pittsburgh locals all come up.
I just want networks. i don't even care about HD at this point. LOL
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09-20-2009, 09:04 PM
| | The Uplink Report Dude | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Jun 8th, 2005 Location: Louisiana
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Originally Posted by tricia48  zip is 26059 but like I said next town is only maybe 10 miles(15376) to me and I put their zip in and Pittsburgh locals all come up.
I just want networks. i don't even care about HD at this point. LOL | Well we need to know if you have an HD receiver and trying to get HD locals or not.
What kind of dish setup do you have? If you are unsure... go to the system info screen(dig around in the menu...can't remember off the top of my head). It will show you which satellites you have configured for your receiver.
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09-20-2009, 09:50 PM
| | SatelliteGuys Freshman
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| | Join Date: Sep 20th, 2009 Location: wheeling
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Yes I do have one HD receiver and I am getting HD on my bedroom TV.
119 110 129
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09-20-2009, 10:00 PM
|  | SatelliteGuys Regular | | Join Date: Jan 27th, 2008 Location: southern California
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Will they at least allow even the superstations?
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09-20-2009, 10:11 PM
| | The Uplink Report Dude | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Jun 8th, 2005 Location: Louisiana
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Originally Posted by tricia48 Yes I do have one HD receiver and I am getting HD on my bedroom TV.
119 110 129 | Go to the point dish screen ... menu 6 1 1. Make sure you are on 129. Check your signal strengths on transponders 1 through 16. It make take several seconds to lock on some of them, some will not lock. On the ones where the word spotbeam is listed about the transponder number, report those transponder numbers and strengths back here. Also report the signal on a transponder number in the 20's.
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09-20-2009, 10:11 PM
|  | Pub Member / Supporter | | Pub Member / Supporter Join Date: Jan 4th, 2007 Location: Fairfax, VA
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I don't know why Dish is doing this to you. But you can "move" to Pittsburgh and get 4 locals in HD (NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox) out of 129. "Moving" is not really moving. It's telling Dish your service address is somewhere in the desired DMA (Pittsburgh), and not where you are really located.
Edit: Yeah, what Digi said. He's making sure you are still in the spotbeam for Pittsburgh.
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09-20-2009, 10:12 PM
|  | Pub Member / Supporter | | Pub Member / Supporter Join Date: Sep 30th, 2006 Location: Great High Plains
Posts: 3,100
| | | "Move"
So "move" the 10 miles down the road to a non-existent apt # there. You must've moved to where there is an existing dish. But none of us know anything about this.  As Krell said. It is just changing the service address w/o changing the billing address.
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