Recent content by ejerommel

Not yet. I am still waiting for the reputed contact from the Directv supervisor to appraise me of my status and options. If I do not hear anything in the next few weeks I will seek a local independent installer who does Directv. I appreciate the tip...ej

Maybe I'm holding it wrong :-). Occasionally I get the compass warning and do the figure eight until the warning clears. What I mean by unsteady is I hold the phone with the back pointing at the ground, slowly lift the phone as close to purely on its vertical axis as I can until the camera is...

Great advice. I appreciate the detailed instructions. Thank you, for the offer, vegassatellite. <br><br> I fear I care a lot less about TV than many in the forums as the idea of building something to help me find the spot(s) where I can get satellite reception is a lot more effort than I am...

The Directv installers came out and insisted they could not see the Directv 99/100/101 satellites anywhere in my little window to the western sky. They took several photographs and said they would submit to a "supervisor." Is this "supervisor" an actual Directv employee? Will I get a call...

And on the ninth try, I got it. I did not change anything I did except to maybe rush the rep a little. It still feels like it is blind luck whether you get a rep that will stack the referral RAF discount with the AAA discount. And then, after all that, and making the installer go back into...

Just got my seventh and final no from Directv in the Dominican Republic. I have read elsewhere that after getting many no's from the referral line the next step is to threaten to cancel the installation and ask for a supervisor on the assumption that Directv wants a new subscriber more than...

Just got my sixth "no," this time from Directv in Manilla Philippines...ej

I called the AAA line and placed my order, waited overnight, and have called the referral line 800-507-4045 five times so far. Each time Directv has said that I cannot have both AAA and referral discounts - it is one or the other but not both. I will try again a few more times today (my...

My small slice of sky looks to start at 99 and end at 119, with both edges up against trees. If Directv can pull in 101 I may be able to get all the Directv channels versus my current Dish which sees 110 and mostly 119 but cannot see 129.

Thanks for the tips. I downloaded DishPointer Augmented Reality on my iPhone 4. I did not find the Satellite AR application but perhaps they are one and the same. My hole through the trees is so small and DishPointer AR is so unsteady that I am still not certain if I can see the Directv...

I live in Charlottesville, VA, and have had Dish Network for SD for a dozen years. I live in a forest with a limited view of the sky. I can only see Dish's western arc 110 and 119 and 119 is iffy but working. Charlottesville's locals are on Dish's 129 (which I cannot see at all) along with...

Thanks for the tip. Several Dish receiver owners seem to have had good luck signing up for the Dish service plan and getting Dish to replace failed equipment. I personally feel it is unethical to add a service plan after a device dies, even though I admit it is a low cost repair option :-)...

My nearly three year old 625 DVR's internal hard disk (Seagate 250GB ST3250823ACE) died yesterday. I twice unplugged the unit for ten minutes, bypassing the surge suppressor, did the hard disk initialization (play, play, recall) twice but no joy. I took the hard drive out and ran Steve...