To Live and Die on 110

[hhkr]

I've tried for a year now to find another satellite through the redwoods but its only satellite 110 for me. Thats the only satellite i can get. I tried putting a dish in the clear but its 550 ft. to my place from a good satellite install with 3 sats. Im paying a lot of money for 110 only because i have to sub to 3 movie channels to get my only 5 hd channels. I can see other hd channels on the channel chart but they don't appear on my guide. I get my locals all in hd hardly viewable. Im getting hbo half price for 1 channel now hboe. Showtime half price for 1 channel too. Pretty soon the price will go up and Im still trying to get somebody at dish to listen to me after 1 year I've given up on that. I have t o sub to the 26 dollar package of which i get no channels at all on 110.

Has anybody ever had any luck emailing anybody at Dish and gotten a decent reply from them? I would just be happy with some locals in hd and a news channel. There is no news or weather on 110 that appears on the guide but I see it in the satellite chart, I'm just not living in the area where its ported to my dish.

I get a real good signal on 110 through a hole in the trees but thats the only one. I'm thinking about just dropping tv all together after 15 years on Dish.

 

[boba]

I've tried for a year now to find another satellite through the redwoods but its only satellite 110 for me. Thats the only satellite i can get. I tried putting a dish in the clear but its 550 ft. to my place from a good satellite install with 3 sats. Im paying a lot of money for 110 only because i have to sub to 3 movie channels to get my only 5 hd channels. I can see other hd channels on the channel chart but they don't appear on my guide. I get my locals all in hd hardly viewable. Im getting hbo half price for 1 channel now hboe. Showtime half price for 1 channel too. Pretty soon the price will go up and Im still trying to get somebody at dish to listen to me after 1 year I've given up on that. I have t o sub to the 26 dollar package of which i get no channels at all on 110.

Has anybody ever had any luck emailing anybody at Dish and gotten a decent reply from them? I would just be happy with some locals in hd and a news channel. There is no news or weather on 110 that appears on the guide but I see it in the satellite chart, I'm just not living in the area where its ported to my dish.

I get a real good signal on 110 through a hole in the trees but thats the only one. I'm thinking about just dropping tv all together after 15 years on Dish.

What do you have available to you? Cable? Directv? Internet? After 15 years it is time for you to try something else.

 

[TheKrell]

I agree the redwoods must stay. Personally I'd go for a 500' run of RG11 and possibly an amp (if needed), to get all the channels you are paying for.

 

[nelson61]

I agree the redwoods must stay. Personally I'd go for a 500' run of RG11 and possibly an amp (if needed), to get all the channels you are paying for.

I'm with TheKrell. And, it's not very expensive either.

 

[Kraven]

Ditto.

Another alternative, which is going to sound stupid, but is a solution....

Build a powered shelter for your receiver next to your dish, run 500ft of cat6 shielded to your TV and use a quality HDMI/CAT6 trasnmitter/receiver kit. But make sure your remote is UHF

Last week I successfully connected/broadcasted from a PC to a LED 400ft away in 1080p as a test project.

 

[boba]

Is the Eastern Arc available to you? It will be lower than the Western Arc but you might have an opening for 61.5 or 72.7 and probably 90 degrees from where you are now pointing.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

Is the Eastern Arc available to you? It will be lower than the Western Arc but you might have an opening for 61.5 or 72.7 and probably 90 degrees from where you are now pointing.

I'm guessing he is in California(Redwoods kind of give it away),so EA is not an option for him.

 

[boba]

I'm guessing he is in California(Redwoods kind of give it away),so EA is not an option for him.

Actually his location in Big Sur Ca. gives it away. Ca isn't impossible for Eastern Arc all he needs is an opening for 72.7 and he can see a lot more HD programming.

Have you tried for OTA TV broadcasts? TV fool shows a NBC and a Fox at about 50 miles with a 2edge rating. It would probably be hard to get but you wanted network news so it is a possibility. KSBW 8.1 NBC broadcast on CH8 & KCBA 35.1 FOX broadcast on CH 13. Getting either or both could be expensive but paying for broadcasting you can't receive is also.

 

[hhkr]

What do you have available to you? Cable? Directv? Internet? After 15 years it is time for you to try something else.

Im on a T1 for internet, no cable available, direct would have the same satellite window of 110. I cant stream blu ray or even satellite quality hd movies but I can watch a little netflix.

 

[hhkr]

I agree the redwoods must stay. Personally I'd go for a 500' run of RG11 and possibly an amp (if needed), to get all the channels you are paying for.

I already made the 550 ft run of rg6 and then rg8 but i didn't want to plunk down the $600 for the rg 11 to get a signal which may or may not work. I never talked to anybody that was able to do that at that length. I tried a couple amplifiers too ... didn't work either.

 

[hhkr]

Ditto.

Another alternative, which is going to sound stupid, but is a solution....

Build a powered shelter for your receiver next to your dish, run 500ft of cat6 shielded to your TV and use a quality HDMI/CAT6 trasnmitter/receiver kit. But make sure your remote is UHF

Last week I successfully connected/broadcasted from a PC to a LED 400ft away in 1080p as a test project.

I thought about this too but its out in the steep woods and i'd have to build something on a neighbors property to do this and he already told me no.

 

[hhkr]

Is the Eastern Arc available to you? It will be lower than the Western Arc but you might have an opening for 61.5 or 72.7 and probably 90 degrees from where you are now pointing.

actually I'm completely surrounded by redwood trees with just one little hole the eastern arc is right in the mountain.

 

[hhkr]

Actually his location in Big Sur Ca. gives it away. Ca isn't impossible for Eastern Arc all he needs is an opening for 72.7 and he can see a lot more HD programming.

Have you tried for OTA TV broadcasts? TV fool shows a NBC and a Fox at about 50 miles with a 2edge rating. It would probably be hard to get but you wanted network news so it is a possibility. KSBW 8.1 NBC broadcast on CH8 & KCBA 35.1 FOX broadcast on CH 13. Getting either or both could be expensive but paying for broadcasting you can't receive is also.

Were completely surrounded by mountains OTA wont work at all. Years ago we used to put up a long antenna and amplifier to get Santa Barbara but I moved out of that location.

 

[nelson61]

actually I'm completely surrounded by redwood trees with just one little hole the eastern arc is right in the mountain.

Worst case you might need to get some bigger dishes and a switch. Something like 3 footers would double the signal strength before you even started down the cable. 4 footer would boost the signal by a factor of 4. Then stick in a passive amp in the rg11 about 1/2 way home to kick it back up again (if needed).

 

[TheKrell]

What's a "passive amp"?

 

[nelson61]

What's a "passive amp"?

No external power supply required .

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[horseshoe]

If there was such a thing as a "passive amp" the entire electronics industry would be turned on it's ears. You have to provide some source of power for any amp to work.

 

[TheKrell]

I am guessing Nelson is describing an active amp that uses power supplied by the Dish receiver.

 

[horseshoe]

Either that or some external power inserter. Otherwise I want in on it, because there's a lot of money to be made.

 

[Stargazer]

A couple of things you could try would be using sling but you would need a recever with internet at another location to do so. I also read some on here vpn/remote connect a Joey at your place while the Hopper is elsewhere although that may be against Dish rules.