Recent content by tonystewart20

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    upgrade to locals

    I am an inhouse tech for dishnetwork. I am a directv cust. Local have become available in the beckly bluefield dma. Cust service stated i need a slim line dish. I am not familiar with dtvs equip can someone give me a link to some info on that type of dish. I know that it is mpeg 4 and i will...
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    722 and hook up to 2nd tv

    This might help SAT TV Autotune The SAT Auto-Tune feature on newer DISH Network remote controls lets the user program into the remote control the correct TV channel used for satellite viewing. When the SAT button is pressed, the remote sends that channel to the TV. Most snowy, blue...
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    eastern arc interesting situation question...

    I remeber a job I did where cutomer had a house full of legacy equip. I went out to add a 722 EA. No locals availble. I left the whole legacy install alone and set up the 722 as a seperate install. Seperate ground block and seperate lines. It worked fine. Customer service had no problem with it...
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    Dish set up for tampa, fl

    Hey where you in house in SLC?
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    1002 Antenna and DPP44?

    W brackets retail for that much. OMG. I need to quit installing these things and just sell the parts.
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    Does Dish give away 20.0 IR remotes

    find a in house tech on the side of the road and ask him. He will give you one.
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    Flextv

    How about those work orders where the cust pre pays for 2 hours labor and the w/o says if it goes over that to charge 59.00 an hour after that. I want a bigger cut.
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    1000.4 Having issues adding 4th Sat to DPP44

    The EA lnb is notorious for not turning off its internal switch when connected to a 44 sw. If you dont need 4 outs I would suggest just taking out the 44 and running the wing dish into the the lnb in port on the 1000.4 lnb. If you are running 4 recievers then get 4 dp singles or duals and set...
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    beckley/bluefield locals

    MPEG-4 does that mean i will need hi def equip like dish network
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    beckley/bluefield locals

    what sat is dtv putting those locals on. Anyone heard
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    Remote control for the elderly

    Yea dish does have the EZ remote I have 10 on my truck right now.
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    dish pissed me off

    I worked Thanksgiving 2008 Christmas 2008 and the 4th 2009. Thats the life of doing installs in house. But double time and a half isnt bad either.
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    remote issues

    I did an install of a 222 to 2 rooms. TV 2 remote works fine. TV1 remote will not work unless the reciever is as far away from tv as possible. Its an older RCA flat panel TV. Can the screen generate radiation that would block the TV1 remote IR. I tried the old and new remotes nothing works that...
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    beckley, blufield dma

    has anyone heard that locals are coming to the beckly bluefield area. its a rumor i picked up and wanted to know if anyone else has heard it.