Recent content by COBill

Note that it isn’t as big an issue this time of year, but when heavy thunderstorms roll over DISH’s Cheyenne, WY uplink site they sometimes block the signals going to 129, resulting in that same message.

This has been an issue for a long time with the Joey 4K, and I assume it's just "normal": Either pause the program briefly or skip back a bit so that the Joey is running just a few seconds behind live. Eventually the picture will just freeze for a second or so and you will end up watching...

Also here. The various Hallmark channels also do this regularly.

Thanks, Mike. The problem with used dishes is that most of the Denver metro area has been hit by 2.5" hail or larger sometime over the past 30 years, so virtually every existing 10' dish of any age has been pummeled and dented, though the others don't have the holes punched through the mesh...

I have (had) a 10' Winegard QuadStar mesh dish, CoRotor II+ feed horn, great NorSat C and Ku band LNBs. I have an old Manhattan DVB receiver bought from Mike Kohl when he was shutting down and it's being driven by a 4DTV with capacitor issues such that it's SD output has a lot of interference...