Recent content by gwdave

I have a vip 211K receiver with a 500 dish. If I am understanding you right, I tell the setup that I am pointing a 1000.4 dish?????? Get the settings for the zip then point the dish accordingly....... I have a dish on the roof right not that is pointed at 61.5, 72, & 77 for all HD...

OK, guys..... I will be setting up my dish in camp grounds. Now my question is weather there is a Eastern arc set for my 500 dish or am I tied to 110/119 only...... I know a camp site that we like there is a pretty high tree line on the western side of the grounds that shields the campers...

OK, I looked at your profile, and found that you are in NC. I am in CT, and for me at my zip, and 119/110 I am at 247deg azimuth with 26deg elevation, and cannot remember the skew. With the 500 dish there is an elevation point on the dish itself. I found that, that is so close, I did not have...

I will just throw my 2c's in here. I switched from COX Cable to Dish last Aug...... My reasons for switching was because of cost, they kept going up every couple of months, with nothing added for benefit. When I switched I went from the bundle "$179.00" per month to $59 for AT&T for phone...

I checked 6,1,3, I waited for the signal to show, it shows 61.5, 72, and 77 in the green. However I went to aim dish, and it shows a 55 percent on that scale.... Does that mean that the dish is off??????

OK Folks, I lost signal today during a heavy rain, however I could change channels and pick channels. My thought is that maybe I was losing a signal off one satellite while changing channels switched me to another satellite..... This has not happened before so I am wondering if I need to have...

I am over 70 also, and have dish at the house. I wanted to be able to set up a TV for the wife, as she needs the noise to sleep. I went with this CO. for my dish kit -----http://bestwaysatellite.com/inc/sdetail/250 I bought the 500 kit because I have the VIP211K receiver, and asked Dish HQ...

I had something interesting happen today..... I have switched to dish network last summer (2 year contract) COX Cable stopped by today wanting me to switch back to them.... I told them that when they could give me a good a package as I have now I might consider it........ I told the gent that...

OK, what I use is a WINEGARD Satellite finder meter. Camping World $29.95. I ordered a 500 dish kit from Satellite Guys.com a Utah based company. The kit came with a piece of junk meter, looked like a winegard however it does not work. I used my winegard to set the antenna up, took just a...

You need to have a talk with someone. What I got from MATT whom is on this forum, he stated the same information that I got from the main office..... what it amounts to is you cannot have a box floating around, another words go to your sons house install the dish, and box so they/he can have...

I think the reason I am not getting the local channels is because they are on a different satellite then 119. The dish I have on the house is pointed at 61.5, 72, and 77, and is a HD PRO dish. It says 500 in the menu however it is not pointed at the same location. When I set up my new dish at...

Well as I said yesterday, I would keep you posted..... Today, I set the dish up did my aiming thing. I used a compass to get the azimuth, I place a stick on the ground to give me the direction for aiming. I then found that with the box plugged in, I could get the 18V to the meter for...

Received my new dish from "Best way Satellite" put it all together. Then set it up in my drive to aim it. Found that the meter that came with it was no good, went to full scale, and no matter where I turned it it was locked at full scale. I have a wingard meter, that I thought I had fried...

I just had to get a new box in the bedroom as that one died...... I asked the UPS guy how I could ship it back. He told me where the nearest shipping point was, and said I could give him a call he would stop, and pick it up..... For me I am only a couple of miles from the shipping point so I...

I have that application for my DROID from Verizon, it is good...... However if the lite is bright you can't see the screen very well.... I would like to be able to use my Lap Top connected to the satellite dish for aiming like the expensive meters do. I would like to tell it what satellite I...