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I think that the higher the value, the higher the brokerage fees and chances to get hit by them. My preference is UPS/Purolator but my last 530 cost me 45$ in broker fees. The value declared was 300$... When my mom tried to ship my 630, the guy behind the Purolator desk would not have...

It is true that some have reported problems. Mine has worked pretty much flawlessly for 2 weeks... The deals that SD has been giving make it definately worthwhile to upgrade: 99$ if you send your 530 back or 200$ to keep it. For the subscribers in the US like me, it makes no sense to pay...

True. I do have a 2 antenna setup.

Yes I subscribe. Using a broker, I think the procedure is you receive the dish, hook it up and make sure you receive signal, then get in contact with the broker so that they proceed with the activation. In other words, they make the call to the service provider. At least that's how it was 10...

Or is it that you find f1R first on 299, get it activated then look for F2? I can't remember it's been a while. There are lots of threads and post on the proper sequence.

You get the receiver activated AFTER you install it and find both birds. Otherwise you will miss the hit and you will have to do it again. French premium channel Super Ecran sends a magasine every month and I can't opt out. In my case it's OK since it goes to my mother's house. Not sure if...

Peaking signal on a ShawDirect 75cm dish is not easy!!! You might be a millimiter off on one of the 3 settings and that could be it... Wind can do that or movement on the surface on which the dish is installed.

Well it's not pretty! Do a google search on it and find for yourself, But there is good news. I bought a new 530 in February. My second. Compared to my first one it has been much more reliable and stable. I'm convinced, altough I have no proof, that something changed in the hardware or maybe the...

You are much braver than I am. When I call from the US I make sure my caller id is blocked. Today SD wanted to call me to dicuss a deal I wanted for the 630. They have my mom's phone # in Quebec so I had my mother forward her phone number to my cell here in the US... I'm probably paranoid but...

Won't be hard to do.

I have a powered Pico 5/8 switch for my Shaw Direct satellite. I'm ready to use the HD antenna input on that switch to distribute the OTA signal. I was wondering if any of you use this switch and if so which diplexer you are using. Just trying to get the best fit. I understand that each...

In Fort Worth... When I had a 75cm antenna, I had a dcb of around 3.5 on RDSHD (channel240). I don't know maybe there was a way to tweek it better but I ran out of patience and got fed up of losing signal during the hockey games so I installed 2 hot dish 90, each pointing at a specific bird. I...

Eversince I started reading about the new sat launch I started getting nevous about losing signal in Dallas TX. Iceman, your no seems pretty firm. How sure are we that the footprint is not (or not likely) to change?

Be prepared for the possibility to pay duty and brokers fees. I got hit with a 45$ charge by UPS/Customs when my mother sent me my ShawDiretc box. She made the "mistake" of declaring it full value...

If you are originally from Canada, then surely you have a cousin/uncle/ high school friend somewhere that would allow you to use their address??? I have paperless billing/auto cc billing to a US card with no problem. BUT, Super Ecran(French premium movie channels) is mailing a mandatory...