Recent content by BarryO

I never answer calls from a number I don't recognize. I don't understand why anyone does. If it's something important, they'll leave a voicemail. Usually, it's a spam call.

I watched Velocity every night, and remember no such popup. One minor annoyance is that it disappeared without warning. The bigger one has been this tendency on Dish's part to continually degrade the "Everything" pack. It's really false advertising now to continue to call it that. They...

Same here. I pay big bucks for the "Everything" pack, doesn't that mean I'm supposed to get everything? Now I find tonight 364 has disappeared. From the first time it hit the air as HD Theater, it's been one of my most-watched channels. I liked the new program line-up. I'm pissed. I've...

You're not that old. ;) The second dish I plan to use is one I used at the main house to receive 61.5 back when all the HD channels were on it. Being in the PNW as well, it was a challenge to find LOS, what with a 10.9 degree elevation. It's a big elliptical sucker, too. At the main house I...

Hi all, We've had a Dish installation at our vacation house for years, with a Dish 500 pointed at 110 & 119, no problem. We finally upgraded our old TV to a nice HDTV set, so added HD channels. I've done a site survey there, and there's no location from which you can see all three birds...

have had problems with BBC America HD for the past few days. haven't checked it today yet.

So I suppose this is why my 921 lost most of its channels today? I know, I know; I'm the world's biggest procrastinator.

It's working now. Guess I just had to wait awhile.

Hi, We have a weekend place that we bring one of our receivers with us from home when we go there (I heard Charlies say on a Charlies Chat years ago that this was OK with them; it's no different than havong one in an RV, really). Anyway, we left one of the 311's in the vacation house when...

Well, if it's a CONUS satellite, which most transponders are (other than the spot beams), then the signal is as wide and tall as the USA! The reflector on the dish intercepts a miniscule portion of this at any given location, and reflects it to the LNBF. That's why you can improve your...

Absolutely. Finally helped a neighbor when his wife asked mine if maybe I could stop by and see how he's doin'. Yep he accepted some help. When I showed up with a level to plumb the mast, his eyes' got wide and he said "you mean it has to be that exact?". I told him he was trying to point at...

Dish network is not licensed by the owners of the various channels to distribute them outside the USA. So if they learn their signal is being received on your account outside the U.S., they have no choice but to cancel the account.

There's nothing unethical about that. It's the corrupt Las Vegas casinos that are acting unethically by throwing people out for playing their games too well (e.g., "counting cards"). let's see: they'll happily take the money from dumb people who play their games badly, but ban smart people...

ROFLOL!!!!!! In case you hadn't noticed, the political party currently in control of all branches of gov't isn't exactly known for favoring activist consumer protection. To the contrary, it believes in gov't as small as possible, that does as liitle as possible. Read the party platform...

If it's on your property, Federal law says you don't need no stinkin' permission to install it. See www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html for details on your legal rights. Unfortunatel, many condo ass'ns and HOA's rules are still in violation, even though it's been like 8 years sinvce the law...