Recent content by n9xcr

I have been an E* customer for a number of years. Perhaps I have only been lucky, but I never had equipment problems or experienced rain fade, even during EXTREME storms. I attribute the lack of rain fade to an excellent installation by the technician that installed the dish. My wife and I...

Hmmmm......I guess I'll see what kind of service I get. :confused: I scheduled my install for this coming Saturday, and will have the 8300 as well. I guarantee I'll be a VERY squeaky wheel if the service sucks. I just wish there were a few less trees behind me so I could keep my dish. :(...

I have one other question I forgot to ask. Do any of the digital boxes come with S-Video connectors?

Unfortunately, I will be unable to receive satellite service in my new home. :mad: Time Warner is the cable provider for my area, and I'm wondering how the picture quality is. My experience with CATV has been that the picture sucks. I don't want to deal with that, but I am willing to give...

I like hearing about people ditching SBC for any services. :D The monopoly is rebuilding itself. Chris

I just went through the same thing as well. I found another thread where this was explained. The dish isn't aimed, so the receiver isn't getting a signal from 121 and 119. I forgot what the option is on that screen, but you'll see the error message if you select it. It should say something like...

Correct, he won't lose any. :D 73 to you N0QCU Chris N9XCR

Now that's an idea!!! :D My wife and I just bought our home a few months ago. I don't know any of the neighbors, so asking the guy behind me if I can cut a branch from his tree would probably not be a good way to approach new neighbors. lol There was a tree partially blocking the...

lol...That's kind of a funny idea. That'd be one way to save on service fees...split them with someone. I don't know anything about the location I.D., but it would be funny if they changed what your receiver displays in that field before they call you, and you read them what you wrote down in...

Does Dish charge per receiver or per tuner? It sounds to me like a great way to get out of some fees. lol I bought a receiver on eBay and activated it because Dish wouldn't let me lease a third one from them. That was fine with me, though. I figured I could buy one and get out of the $4.99...

Thank you! :D

I'm in a similar situation, but not sure that I have to go nearly as far as you do. I have to put my dish on a tower at my back lot line to get a clear line of sight to the sky. I was considering running 75 ohm hardline from my house to the tower, but I was wondering, however, if I could...

I think calling a local installer, like you said, is going to be the best way to go. The thing that really irritates me about the whole thing is that I drive past many houses each day that have satellite dishes pointed at tall forests that can't be more than 30 feet from the dish. I can't...

My wife and I purchased our first home last November. We had SuperDish at the apartment we were renting, so I called Dish Network to have them install another one at the new place. The installer showed up a couple hours early and I wasn't here yet. He called me cell phone to tell me he...