Recent content by TheKrell

Wish I had a signal meter for the dish/lnb combo I bought from Solid Signal.

I waited 5 days and called back. The "no LOS" block is still on my account and nobody can clear it. Today I spoke to somebody in Cape Town who claimed that she couldn't tell me who put the block on my account but that that person would have to take it off again. Seems plausible but I think...

I spent about 90 mins on the phone (mostly on hold) talking to 6 or 7 different CSRs. Via somehow locked my account with "no LOS" which is a damn lie from the pit of hell. It seemed as though I was making progress getting handed all the way up to account integrity (why I don't know) who...

20 years ago they called themselves Via Satellite and they seem to be the only installers Dish employs in this area. They may have shortened their name recently. Their van has Dish logos prominently displayed. I no longer remember exactly what the tech told me, and maybe he didn't say "Dish"...

The tech took the dish and LNB back on his truck and left, saying Dish (Via?) would call, so I can't do that test. Anyhow, are you telling me that I'm wrong and the tech, who can get a strong signal on both 61.5 and 72.7 separately, is right and we can't align the dish approximately 10 deg west...

My installation issues continue this morning. Recall that I bought a new longer mast so that the dish could be mounted and pointed about 10 deg to the west of the side of my house (which has vinyl siding). The Via tech claimed that he could get either 61.5 or 72 but not both. :crying2 He tried...

It's a little late for that! I gave up trying to repair the file system on that partition and just reformatted it. So however many programs will fit in 500GB is how many programs I lost. I think the Hopper fills up partitions in order, so the bad one was the 2nd so I believe it was completely...

Even with no OTA channels, it still won't make it through one movie without at least one crash and reboot. I hope this stops when it has the satellite again.

Yeah, it worked for me too when this same thing happened on my 1.5TB disk on a 722. I simply repaired the bum partition and the 722 mounted it just fine. IIRC the bad partition was empty and I saved all my recordings, with possibly a few lost and gone forever. Back then as now all partitions...

Well my friends, I can't even delete the old channels without plugging in the OTA adapter and rebooting. Doing that now. OK; the H3 rebooted faster than expected. I had 67 channels in there and I removed them all pending my decisions on an antenna. I am now about 20 mi farther from the...

That is an excellent idea. My OTA adapter is currently unplugged because I have no antenna on this house. Yet. Need to delete those channels.

I suffered the disappearance of my 6TB Seagate on my H3 a few months ago. The old/original H3 was replaced without fixing that, but an older EHD from my 612 days worked fine on the "new" H3. So I decided there was something amiss with my 6TB Seagate and I attempted to repair it. I...

Well, this is annoying as hell. Recall that I don't have an aligned dish yet. (A longer mast just arrived.) I've been watching prerecorded programs, but I can't get through a single 2-hr movie without the Hopper crashing and rebooting. Has anybody seen that behavior without the satellite?

Ahem. The Joey's 54 remote somehow went from "working" to dead overnight, and new batteries fixed that. :oops: The Hopper's 54 remote somehow became unpaired but I located my 40.0 UHF 2G and discovered that and fixed it. The Hopper wanted to update the remote. Don't know what needed updating...

Thanks, Bobby, for these detailed instructions which I have printed out. No, I did not mix up the remotes and yes they are both 54's and they were both working as of last night when I unplugged the H3 and J3 to bring them to my new house. Why in heck would they stop working when the dish...