Recent content by walkerjs

My apartment dish was mounted in a bucket of concrete for quite awhile and worked rather well until I had to elevate the dish due to tree growth. It is now on a 10' fence pole (well, actually 10' of conduit sleeved into a fence pole) which is secured to the wooden floor of the balcony with a...

Nah, it just means that people who have E* have more problems with them :D You don't go to a website to post "hey everyone, just wanted to let you all know that everything is a-OK!" You go to the website to ask if anyone else's receivers are pixellating, freezing, randomly rebooting, slow...

I have D* and my parents in WV have E*. They got it before I got D*, but I went with D* because I think they had some channels I wanted in the tier level that would require a more expensive tier on E* for me to get. I forget, it's been more than a year. Anyway since then I've had some time to...

I live in Southeast PA, but I suppose you can use this photograph to get a guage on the tree-to-dish ratio to see if you are going to get a signal: I think the direction it is pointing (the...azimuth? I forget) is 247 degrees. I get a 100 signal on the 101, an 89 on the 110 (dish needs...

Not black pipe. A grounding rod driven into the ground that the gas meters are grounded to. Or maybe that guy's apartment is going to asplode one day. Ah well, it seems that I have yet to see any straight answer from anyone about where to ground a dish, only gleeful admonitions about where...

In my apartment complex there are gas meters for the gas heat coming in from utility, and apparently they need to be grounded, since they are attached to a grounding spike driven into the, uh, ground. I suppose if you have one of those nearby you could ground to that. I've seen at least one...

Zip code? Hell, I gave you GPS coordinates within a degree! Besides, the zipcode calculator gives an elevation of 37 degrees, which is only ballpark. At any rate, I'm pretty much 100% sure that the 119 is completely blocked. Last night we had thunderstorms blow through, and while the wind...

That probably 'splains it. I'm a few hundred klicks north, so it's probably even lower. Oh well, hope Direct doesn't move anything I care about to the 119, or I'm gonna have to jack that dish into the stratosphere! Thanks all.

Interesting question. Though I would gather that since they are on property owned by the apartment complex they are most definitely private trees, even if they are not in any tenant's fair use area. I don't think I could get any local government agency to get them trimmed back if that's what...

One year ago this month I fired Comcast and went with DirecTV, purchased a three room, triple LNB RCA dish/receiver rig from Best Buy because I didn't know any better and set up an appointment with a local installer. When the guy finally came he hemmed and hawed about the tree line, my...

Okay, well that makes it pretty clear. Guess I'll just have to suffer through the crisp clear picture, rock solid reliability, reasonable rate, decent channel selection, ability to pick and choose premium channels instantly, quick menus, and no hassle billing for yet another year. 'Cept now...

Sorry, didn't include all the details. I have three RCA receivers with no Tivo at all so I'd have to pay the $4.99 for the Tivo service, which I'm not at odds with. Looking again at the offer it does indeed seem as though if I take them up on their offer it means that I'm in for another year...

Okay, so I'm coming up on my first full year of having Direct and naturally they have sent out an incentive offer in the interest of keeping me for yet another year. Not that they really need to do anything to keep me on as we've been more than happy with the service and have no intentions of...

For the record, History Channel has been cutting out with a "Searching for sat.." randomly. I switch to another channel and all is well. I have the reciever in the other room tuned to HS to see if it happened to it while it happened to mine (wife is watching a DVD in the main room) and it did...

Around these parts, (SE PA) I think Comcast intentionally gives customers in New Jersey the good stuff, and leaves the crappy stuff for this area. Our area's digital cable had poor PQ, digital boxes with slow, cumbersome navigation menus, advertisements in the menu, poor channel lineup and it...