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I returned to DISH about two weeks ago and happened across the "issues" button in the "status" section of settings. It shows "LNB Drift detected". Sometimes it is both satellites and other times just one. The numbers in parenthesis are generally around -5 or -6. Most of the threads on this...

We lived in rural MN and used cable. Now we moved to the twin cities... and do OTA TV.... but ours works, and my friends does not, and yesterday a decent OTA portable antenna gave us the exact same problem. Here goes.... The house we bought at a satellite dish. I removed it and used the mast...

It was actually 2 things for me...my biggest problem was that I would go through the set-up process, scan for satellites, it would say not all satellites found, I would move on and all I could get was cable channels (ESPN, SECN, etc.) and I could not get any locals (CBS, FOX, etc.) the two...

What did you do? Get a new receiver or find a mode that didn’t include 61.5? We must tailgate somewhat close to each other, and based on your previous posts I live across the river from you, but I use Montgomery locals on campus. No problem getting any channels but for the first time this year...

Technology is a big part of our modern lives. We don’t give a thought to all these modern conveniences. Whether it’s our phones, our TVs, or our cars, we spend all day surrounded in the latest tech. But all that really happened in the last several decades. Even 100 years ago, none of the things...

And that is a good summary of what I was trying to say. Just like there is Elon Musk and then there is Charlie. Charlie had things in the outer space first but look at who came out of nowhere and ahead of everyone including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, all of them started the companies from the...

note that some newer E2 images like TNAP 4.2 and TNAP 5 show the SNR measurement, just like they do for satellite reception. Might be worth installing one of those in a spare slot just for that purpose

After trying the antenna 20 feet high on a mast, I quickly discovered height is not what counts in this situation. There was zero signal at 20 feet. But at about 4 feet off the ground, there is solid signal much of the time. Sunset time is tricky since the signal seems to drop out then briefly...

Ofcourse but that was back then, this is now. People get old and the company was way smaller back then and easier to manage. Ofcourse, CEOs get paid with stock options and then there are those who would take a $1 salary like Steve Jobs did. Every CEO is different as I am a CEO but of a...

Charlie built dish from the ground up...he knows how to hire good people who can make money...I don't think you know what a CEO does but they usually get paid by stock options with some cash...so their primary focus is to increase profits and stock prices..kicking back and collecting a pay check...

As an over-the-road truck driver, do you find it difficult to stay in shape? Most of your day is spent behind the wheel, with little free time to yourself. When you do have some time, you’re usually nowhere near a gym. To make fitness more difficult, it’s hard to enjoy a healthy meal on the...

One less reason to ever get a C-band dish now: I managed today to pull in all 7 Weigel channels OTA from KVOS in Bellingham, WA. It's 77 miles to the transmitter site yet reception is perfect. My OTA antenna is just 5 feet above ground which is the best location for reception. A lot simpler than...

last I checked 15W actually had hunderds of channels, the TuVes direct-to-home service from Latin America. Unfortunately only a few religious channels are ITC. Those transponders require a slightly stronger signal than VoA, so in case of marginal reception, they can be missed while VoA is coming...

These days both eastern and western arc satellite constellations consist of 2 orbital locations. Eastern arc: 61.5/72 Western arc: 110/119 Presumably each of your single satellite dishes was pointed at one of these locations. But if one of the dishes is now pointed at the ground, you should...

If Amazon ( or anyone else) wants the spectrum, they seem content to wait for Bankruptcy. With all the financial information I get via email newsletters, there has not even been a whisper in any of them that Dish has been approached about acquiring any of it. Even if so, Ergen might be wanting...

Huh? I have only heard rumblings of a DISH Amazon deal. Amazon is launching their own internet via Satellite, if they had DISH's ground spectrum it would push them to be one of the largest carrier. But so far their deal with Amazon with Boost isn't doing anything. No one is buying. And...

What you see is a lightning arrester. This particular one is for a high-tension power line. It’s a device designed to keep a lightning strike from traveling down a wire and ruining everything, because let’s face it, one lightning strike can (and will) ruin your entire day. If lightning can hit...

You HAVE to do an inverted dish for a sat that low to the horizon, but even so as stated, ground noise is likely going to wipe out any signal, unless you use a much larger dish. Then you might have a chance.

The best days of 15W seem to be in the past. It was one of my first-ever received satellites from Nova Scotia. I used to receive MSNBC and exotic tps including from TVGE from Equatorial Guinea (now on 97W). The lowest I've seen in past was 12 degrees elevation. I could reliably receive 3W using...

Actually, the RG6 cords saved the dish.. It never hit the ground, but the lnbf took a wack... The dish has no visible damage. But, i have not pulled any signals in as of yet with this dish. Maybe tomorrow, ill grab a signal I'm very familiar with and weed out any other potential issues.

Is it possibe due to the dish falling that it is warped? It does not take much to mess up the focal point. I dropped a 33" dish and I could never peak it right.

Yea, i did that with 30w. I've been reviewing some old posts. Thus far - I cannot receive a signal. I may make sure i can receive a test signal first.. This is the dish that blew off onto the ground a year back.. Not 100% the lnbf is good.

For me, the signal is about 3 degrees above horizon. I want to try and get the VOA.. I would be using a 39 inch dish. I already know from setting up 30w, the darn dish looks like it is pointed at the ground. So, for 15w, I'm sure ill have issues mounting it right side up being the dish will...

Does the thought of buying an antenna tower make you nervous? If so, it’s perfectly normal. This is a HUGE purchase, and there’s a lot you need to know beforehand. Like how high should your tower be? And is it going to need guy wires? (What are guy wires, anyway?) Then there’s the question of...

On my pole mounts, I would take the foot off the J mount I wasn't using and tighten it around the bottom of the pole to keep it from spinning. A lot faster and easier than drilling into the pole.