Recent content by judybob

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    Is Do It Yourself Installation Possible?

    do it you self it is very easy to do it your self on Dish or Directv menu there is a place for installing type in your zip code ( it will tell you what setting for your sat dish. the pipe must be level ,i have post level mounted to the pipe , and use a compass to find sat. as you get close...
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    DirecTV in Mexico

    AS long as i have a account with Direct or Dish and pay my bill , why should they care if we are watching at home. or in the Motorhome somewhere in Calif, Wash., Alaska , Canada or Mexico. as far as getting sat. service in Mexice we might be there 2 weeks or 2 months we don't know we are...
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    DirecTV in Mexico

    If you look in any RV park about 90 % of the RV have a Sat. dish on them or on the stand by them. look at at all the long haul trucks that have a sat. dish on the sleeper why do you think they made it so easy to line up and lock on to a sat. a lot of the RV parks are not putting cable in...
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    Hose On Rain Repellent?

    PAINT ON DISH WON'T HELP OR HURT the dish is just the reflector to the LNB, the LNB receives the signal A lot of R V ers take there dish to Mexico and have them Paint a Picture Or scene on it off of a photo In Mexico there is a lot of artist who paint pictures on canvas,saws & Satellite...
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    Hose On Rain Repellent?

    we've had satellite for over 5 years and have never washed or even wiped it off , have never lost sig. because of rain on the dish , We've have lost the sig because off a bad storm and heavy clouds & heavy Rain and the sig. cant get to the dish. Water on the dish will not stop the sig The...
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    Mounting Direct TV Dish on long pole

    Try it on the patio we do a lot of RVing we have had our dish 2 feet of the ground on our stand between two 11 foot high Motorhomes 10 feet apart. and still had about a 85% we was locked to the sat before the other motorhome pulled in but did not lose it try it see if you can get a lock...
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    10 Voom Channels - Compelling Content or Just HDTV?

    we loved VOOM and miss all the MOVIES on it, as we are locked into directv for a year, there is so many channels on directv & dish that we do not care for,could not go to cable as it is hard to drag a cable behind a R V, in a lot of the R V parks the cable is very bad , so we need a satellite...
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    Send Directv an E-mail ASKING for VoOm

    Hi I went on Directv web site to the Contact them link sent them a e-mail asking them to add Voom Channels. they sent me an email back saying that if a lot of sub wanted Voom they would consider adding Voom We had Voom before Direct we miss a lot of voom's channels bob
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    Ten Million HDTV's in U.S. homes!!! And VOOM only got 40,000 subscribers

    Wal_Mart would done better we never heard of voom till sept of 2004, we to Sears to see it, Sears said it did not work right,was not any good , would not show it to us, We Got Voom when they started to run TV adds WAL-MART would have done a lot better we are stuck with Direct now for 1 year...
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    Everyone send a e-mail to DIRECTV (VOOM)

    Hi I sent a e-mail to directv today asking them to carry VOOM within two hours we had this answer Although we don't carry the VOOM Channels right now, WE often add programming based on customer request, and I have forwarded your request to Directv management Bob don't want dish want VOOM
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    Dish / VOOM deal ( NO DEAL )

    After 3 phone calls to Dish today the best deal we got was because we had Dish before VOOM $25.00 restartup fee $49.00 for 2 month in advance $300.00 for each HDTV receiver ( not HD_DVR ) never got to how much it would be for hdtv or voom programing TOLD THEM WE WOULD GO TO DIRECTV IF...
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    Voom will stay on pass May 1st!

    IT would not do us any good, unless it is picked up by Direct , as we signed with direct for 1 year , As we had talked to Voom many times about putting the dish on our Motor Home and they said no, which also left out cable bob
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    Post your wish list for surviving VOOM originals (max 10)

    Our List MONSTER HD ( about 90 % of the time) (the other 10 % between) Equator hd Rave hd Rush hd Bob az
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    CNET.com: Death of Voom: we just weren't ready

    Voom was great ,we will miss it. don't care about a DVR, if i want a dvd recorder i can buy one at wal-mart we want VOOM but with VOOM GONE , do not need HDTV we got one from Aaron Rents just for VOOM, It went back last week back to just plain old TV we went to Direct as Dish wanted...
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    [VOOM] Question about Monster HD on Voom

    Hi The Monster Hd Channel Is The One We Will (( Miss The Most )) No Cable Co. Or Satellite Co Has Anything Like It Also Rave Bob & Judy