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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...

...that purchasing three satellite recievers and a three LNB oval Dish would cost far more than it did when we got it, and now that we've been with D* for a year we own it outright. I think she's been brainwashed by years of Comcast and their rental boxes. She would be the one who would mostly...

...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. I must conclude that that D* must be having some problem. Clear skies and I doubt that tree grew THAT much (and only blocking the History Channel) since spring.

...digital boxes with slow, cumbersome navigation menus, advertisements in the menu, poor channel lineup and it was expensive. Hence our switch to D* which we have been extremely happy with, save the occasional spontaneous receiver resets, rain fade, and that mysterious half hour locals outage...

If you have all of the other aspects of your site survey done you should have no problem. I aligned my oval Phase III dish in a bucket after only estimating where I thought the birds would be with a compass, an aeronautical chart and a lot of research. Of course, I don't get the 119 but that...

Okay, locals just came back.

Add me to the list of those not getting signal in the philly area. All transponders are good signal, just no channel on the 101.

I didn't want to mention the team since that tends to get people up in arms for some reason :D, but in this case it would be the USC Trojans. Despite being #1 they don't get any respect on the east coast. They do, however, get TV coverage just not out here. This season many of their games...

Okay, a couple of things that may have been answered before, but I haven't seen a direct answer to a lot of them so I figure it doesn't hurt to ask here. 1. PPV - Currently we do not have any phone lines hooked up to any of our three receivers because of the inconvenience of where the phone...

So this means that Comcast and their ilk can't get their filthy mitts on NFL ST until at least 2010? Sweet! I'll buy it next year and every year just on principle modest price increase or not. Hell, I got all off-season to save up for it.

Okay, so in addition to the tailgating threads I thought I might ask for a quick internet feasability study of my own regarding setting up a portable DirecTV for when one isn't at the home base. My parents (who get Dish currently, DirectWay internet ironically) live out in West Virginia and...

...So, is this something that is happening "upstream"? As in, WFMZ just has a crappy signal from wherever they are generating it or otherwise sending it along so that D* is just passing along the local-quality signal with the occasional fuzz and faithfully replicating it digitally on my receiver?

Oh, I don't know I wouldn't say you're a moron if you were spot-on with the signal once you connected it to the correct line. :D I'm going to leave the grounding and RG6 questions to the pro guys here, but I will comment on your apartment management. Them 'not wanting a bucket' is pretty...

They are indeed DRD-435's, and after speaking with DirecTV they said to reset the receivers which I did. Checking through the system setup menu there is an upgrade that was performed on 9/14. Only two receivers are doing it, though all three show the upgrade. Also this upgrade changed the...