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  1. HoppertheKangaroo18

    Old ui looked cleaner to me

    I found this old time warner cable box attention popup. It kinda looks a bit like a dish popup but purple
  2. HoppertheKangaroo18

    Old ui looked cleaner to me

    I actually saw my first ever Primestar dish in in person! It was at a hotel inn down the street from me. I think there were 2 big dishes in the front
  3. MikeD-C05

    Old ui looked cleaner to me

    He's looking for old PRIMESTAR sat dishes now, since you mentioned them. :biggrin My old Primestar sat dish pole from 95 was what I used for my first DISH satellite install and it lasted me till 2005 after Hurricane Rita came through and crushed the DISH 500 satellite dish into a C shape and...
  4. That American Girl

    Echostar prepares potential bankruptcy filing

    I know there's a service offered on Dish for My rv.com called the JourneyFi...or something like that. Don't know much about it though, other than its a PIA version like a hotspot.
  5. HoppertheKangaroo18

    Old ui looked cleaner to me

    I did put a ground wire I'm not sure if you can see it because it blends in with the coax
  6. Foxbat

    Old ui looked cleaner to me

    Normally you want to avoid bending your coax cables past a certain minimum radius (depends on the cable); one example I found said 75 mm (or 3”) which would give you a minimum circle diameter of 1/2 foot. You can run into signal reliability issues bending the cable too sharply as the strain it...
  7. cyberham

    Danger Pay?

    Years ago, I fell from the second step on my ladder to the ground. No damage; just knocked the wind out of me and felt foolish. I had been distracted by the adjustments I was doing to the dish. From that point, I have never installed a dish which I can't reach by standing on the ground including...
  8. HoppertheKangaroo18

    First SuperDISH installed

    The photos remind Me of my neighbors SuperDISH but longer. The neighbors one is metal while this one looks like it's plastic or fiberglass? Anyway cool obsolete post!
  9. primestar31

    How to keep ANTS out of my satellite dishes

    I save that for ground hornets. You can BET I use the "light them on fire" part of it also, with prejudice!
  10. T

    How to keep ANTS out of my satellite dishes

    What kind of ants would crawl up posts to get into a sat dish? The only kinds I see around here are strictly ground-dwellers, nesting either in anthills or rotting wood.
  11. FTA4PA

    How to keep ANTS out of my satellite dishes

    If you want something that is NOT TOXIC - since you will likely be working on your dishes again at some point - you can use this. All natural, safe around children, pets - and you. ;) https://www.saferbrand.com/safer-home-ant-roach-spider-killer-13-and-one-quarter-oz
  12. Bobby

    How to keep ANTS out of my satellite dishes

    This stuff works. Spray it and poof they are gone. Don’t wipe it off and they won’t come back. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ortho-Home-Defense-Insect-Killer-for-Indoor-and-Perimeter-2-1-Gal-Controls-Ants-Roaches-Spiders-and-More-022081004/300569432
  13. HoppertheKangaroo18

    How to keep ANTS out of my satellite dishes

    I have 2 dishes with the ant problem. 1 on a pole in the ground and another one on a telephone pole. Do you have any suggestions? The ants are literally climbing up the lnb arm tube and laying eggs/ nesting in it and a couple bit me today while checking out the nest
  14. MikeD-C05

    Dish Change Question

    So back to what they started with. A dish 500 and twin lnb. The more things change the more they stay the same. :smug
  15. HipKat

    Dish Change Question

    It's been out. I'm shocked that in-house office doesn't have them
  16. JFOK

    Tree Trimming ??

    cyberham, I live on Cape Cod where everything is ridiculously expensive, but I still love it here. I believe with many tree trimmers/cutters around, I will be able to work a fair price for trimming, just gotta keep looking and read reviews. I'll also have to paint my solid dish sometime this...
  17. dishdude

    Dish Change Question

    That poor siding took a beating!
  18. charlesrshell

    Dish Change Question

    Internal Dish tech installed my pole mount today. Can finally get my house siding repaired now. Pole is seven foot, about 2.5 foot in the ground with foam. I still have to install conduit clamps on the side of house. Technician said he has heard that a new western arc setup is coming out. It...
  19. K

    HSN Shop by Remote discontinued

    What's making them carry them is that the shopping channels pay providers for carriage, either directly or commission on sales. i.e. on some channels like HSN and Shop LC you'll see different phone numbers or promo codes if you're watching on DIRECTV, Dish, cable, OTA or streaming. If the checks...
  20. arlo

    New user - old Birdview

    Never one to throw out potentially usable stuff. Telstar kind of hit a bone. If it makes sense at all. If you can get the gearbox and actuator tube running good. Seeing that a potentiometer is in fact a positive feedback device that would provide an ancient dish mover without memory storage a...
  21. T

    New user - old Birdview

    That was the only dish I knew of that used that fat pole. A 4" sched. 40 would have been well sufficient, especially since it didn't extend that far out of ground, but this was birdview...
  22. k4otl

    Comments from a newbie to FTA

    Well I got the mount fixed, and the 10' dish is mounted on the pole. Talk about not being fun. Top of pole I concreted is ~6.5'-7' out off the ground, we lifted dish/mount onto the pole, talk about sweating bullets. But it's mounted now and I can fiddle with it as time allows. I hot wired the...
  23. cyberham

    C Band and a 120cm dish... pointless?

    If you have visibility to 139W, point your dish toward it. I have my 4-foot offset dish receiving the ARCS mux from Alaska at a solid 6.7 dB now. This is a good transponder with five TV channels including PBS and sports broadcasts from ESPN, Fox, etc. as well as a number of radio channels. UFL...
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