Recent content by dcavaiani

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    Signal a bit worse each year

    4 years ago I knew how to realign the dish, pretty much forgot all about that procedure now .
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    Signal a bit worse each year

    Maybe I could just shorten the tree by an inch or so ...
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    Signal a bit worse each year

    At camper, dish is on an old large tree - for 4 years now. The 101 signals are still in the 90's but the HD signals are now mostly in the 60's when they were in the 70's and 80's couple of years back. Any suggestions regarding how to TWEAK the dish to recapture better HD signals ?
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    Is there logic/explanation for this ??

    I have the setup shown in the pic. I have the signal for the powered A/V Amplifier going to an old non-HD small TV in the kitchen. It works ONLY IF the HDTV at the amplifier is TURNED ON. If I turn that TV off, and the Directv controller remains on, then all I get is a BLANK screen on the...
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    How lame is this ???

    I have a $9 dumb LG cell (Tracfone service - pay as you need it) for emergencies and rare texting and rarely carried with me. I use a windows 10 laptop a lot for email, Access Databases and Excel and Word, newspapers, surfing We have DSL (Uverse), MagicJack (VOIP), cordless 3 phone system...
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    How lame is this ???

    Called DIrectv and they will replace it, told them maybe just send me another H24 cause they all work fine with the caller ID. Did a reset on the H25 and the 76-694 error msg went away, but still no Caller ID showing up.
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    How lame is this ???

    I have searched the forum and found many posts regarding the non-functioning of the the Caller ID/Call log. I have a H24-100 and it works fine for the Caller ID. I also have a H25-100 and the Caller ID setup looks exactly the SAME. The option is there just like on the H24. YET, it simply...
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    I'm sounding off - Comments welcome

    I think I'm good there. Have a SL5 at both locations and all HD receivers as of this year now.
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    I'm sounding off - Comments welcome

    I keep getting Charter/Spectrum cable service reps BANGING on my door! I have patiently told them before that I CANNOT change my Directv service BECAUSE I use it at both my home AND camper - and THEY have no comparable service! My question to you experts is: do you ever see Directv somehow...
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    HD Directv and Sanyo SD TV

    Found it, Chip. Was the Tv/Vcr/Input key on the remote! Thanks for your quick response which encouraged me to look deeper!
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    HD Directv and Sanyo SD TV

    Yes, composite. Sanyo model is DS31810.
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    HD Directv and Sanyo SD TV

    Having a bit of a snafu. Trying to connect an H24-100 to a Sanyo SDTV. The Directv box has no S-Video, only AV and HDMI. I have tried the AV hookup but am getting no signal - just a 'snow' screen. The TV has only a few settings and it is set to receive signal from Cable. I believe this...
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    This is very WEIRD

    I just swapped, all was powered down, so it may take a while again if/before issue come back. The box with issue is h24-100, other 1 is h24-200. Audio settings are same.
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    This is very WEIRD

    I have shut off the surge protector the box is plugged into b/4 and it seems to clear things up for a bit, but then the issue re-occurs. Is it possible it could be something awry in the box vs the TV?
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    This is very WEIRD

    There is an Audio out black plug - which splits into av later on (actually this is a camper set up). I unpluged the audio out still get the skipping right from the tv, but only on music channel.