Recent content by MNipper

That "low 60's floor" is good to know. I had wondered what the limit was. What I found odd is the fact that it literally just dropped to zero during that broadcast (according to the meter that you see in the display at the top of the screen). Interestingly, I queued up the second showing of...

I appreciate the responses. It's an outdoor antenna. All RG-6. In fact, I have 4 RG-6 runs coming from where I mount my various dishes, and simply stole my 61.5 run to use for this, so it's a "known good" run of cable. As to channels that I'm checking... yeah, I'm quite familiar with the...

Sorry, but I'm pulling my hair out, and hoping someone in the Denver area may be a step ahead of me, and save me beating my head against the wall. My first question is more generic. What is an acceptable signal strength for an OTA signal? At present, I'm getting two channels and both are...

Yeah... I had the same behavior (basically you can repeat that procedure endlessly, as the receiver sees that it doesn't have the full # of days, and keeps prompting you to do it again). THANKS for confirming that the guide data is hosed. At least I know I'm not crazy!

I haven't seen anyone else post this, but I'm noticing that the Guide (at last on my three 622's) is now about 1 1/2 days out of date. It should currently be available thru Wed night, but currently ends mid-morning on Tuesday. I've forced guide downloads on several receivers, but it simply...

Taken 3/7/08 @ 12:15PM MDT Area: 80439 (Evergreen, CO) 61.5 Dish type: Dish 300 Receiver: VIP 622 L4.49 1. NL 2. 47 3. 45 4. NL 5. 45 6. 55 7. 52 8. 55 9. 52 10. 50 11. 50 12. 69 13. 35 14. 64 15. NL 16. 53 17. 48 18. 48 19. 52 20. 40 21. 48 22. 35 23. 60 24. 56 25...

Sorry. Really bad/long day. Thanks for the catch.

Thermaltake Max 4 Active Cooling & Hitachi 1GB I was thinking there was a specific thread where someone was summarizing viable external solutions, but didn't find it. Not sure if this is a good place for that, or not? But.... I have these two items in combination, and would like to report...

I realize that there is that "testing" thread, but someone might consider making this one a sticky? This channel has gone live, on 542, as a stealth delivery from E* (no doubt, due to the baseball playoffs). Some folks aren't going to see it if they aren't using the map-downs. (Obviously, a...

Sorry, but I have to (respectfully) wholeheartedly disagree. The problem is very simple, regardless of the two choices that you select in the receiver, you are losing content. A 720p program is pumping out full-frame content, fully refreshed at a rate of 60 times per second. Any way you...

FWIW, the 129-based feed looked fine.

I assume that you're using some non-Dish remote? If you're using the Dish remote, I believe that the primary remote only sends RF (but you probably already know that), but I just wanted to be sure that you weren't fighting that as an issue. Certainly, I use Xantech stuff with my 622 (with a...

Good stuff Larry, thanks. I've pasted in my readings next to yours, just for grins: TP signal(SF) Den -- ------- 01 73 72 02 77 69 03 74 70 04 72 70 05 71 72 06 87 83 07 77 74 08 65...

Thanks for each of your replies and feedback. Certainly appreciated. I've already volunteered to help my neighbor "re-tweak" his 1000 tomorrow morning at some point. I suspect that it, too, was tweaked to 119. DJ Rob, I would be curious what you see on TP2 with your 1000. If nothing...

Just curious if anyone else is seeing any issues from 129, Transponder 2. It seems to have one of the lowest strengths available, when compared to everything else I get from 129. With an 18" (single LNB) dish, I only manage a signal strength of about 70-71, and my neighbor's Dish 1000 only...