Recent content by bcshields

I have listened to maybe 15 minutes of terrestrial radio in the last two years since I've had Sirius... at least 15 minutes that were my option. There's one station locally the kids play at work.. and I swear they play the same 5 songs every hour... if I hear "My hump my hump my hump" one more...

On Stern's show.. the commercials are like 3 or 4 spots, every hour. Half of them he talks through. Same with the Bubba and Farrell on 101.

Yep.. chalk it up to doing math at 3:30am. totally forgot about the ad revenue.

500 million / year = 3.12 million subscribers at 12.95/month. Considering some of the subscribers are secondary subs at $6... Stern would have to generate sone 4-5 million subs himself just to pay for himself. I can see that happen after 2-3 years. This is going to be interesting.

They look at you guys as high end customers.. if you're willing to pay $250 for an upgrade fee to lease a piece of equipment, you all can pay an upgrade fee (I'm thinking $99 w/contract, $199 without) for MPEG4 upgrades.

probably fried the LNBF if you tried to use a direct TV rcvr with a DP LNBF.

You'll get some flak if it ain't free... the transition will be painful on their ears and wallet I'll be sure...

Heck 119 is at 26-28 degrees here, depending where you are in the state.

That's downright foolish. They take up little space. I always kept extra dishes.. matter of fact I picked up a bulk pack of 10 at a time. What if you're missing hardware? What if you screw up and warp the dish... what if you run into a modification or get a call to pick up a workorder because...

or if they modify the workorder while the tech is onsite.. the reschedule will be moot since he'll do it then and there.

It's a very complicated system meant to balance installer availability and projected worload. Without getting terrifically detailed let's say your install was assigned a certain amount of points meant to represent an assumed allotment of time. Then you called to add a second dish. Since their...

Well.. they would probably use your existing D500 for your wing point. otherwise leaving it or taking it is up to the individual installer. I'd leave it personally, because you never know if it's warped or off a bit here or there. they'd probably put a DPDual on the dish.. they phased out...

Anything beyond those lengths mentioned above, you might want to switch to RG-11 for at least some of the wiring to minimize your signal degradation.

They should have contacted him and informed him of the change... It's an escolation waiting to happen... and when it does everyone will point fingers and noone will take blame.

I hear if you stick a strong magnet to the harddrive all the data will stay once it's tipped sideways.