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    Dish Network Prepaid Question

    When calling in, it will tell you how much for each package. It's however easier to look it up online. Take the monthly fee and divide by 30 for a price per day. I'm using the dish for say a weekend or say a week vacation. So with the Greendot money pack I'm not going to pay for the days I'm...
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    Dish Network Prepaid Question

    Steelers rule, It's just like what I have on the original dish and not a dish pro. I'm not up to all the lingo. I did test it at my work in the back parking lot before I installed it at the other place. I think you'd call it a dual twin legacy LNB? The radio shack guys I think did not know...
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    Converter box downconvert?

    Sorry if this was covered but if you have a digital to analog converter box and the channel is running HD, does it down convert to the SD output? Or is this a stupid question? I know that digital OTA does not mean HD so that is why I ask the question.
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    Dish Network Prepaid Question

    Is the reason you are doing this because you can't get the 800 number in Canada? The reciever would not know where you are and would activate fine I would imagine.
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    Digital vs. Analog antenna power.

    Thanks Voyager. I have a perfect spot on the back corner for a J bracket. Like the current satellite dish location on my roof, no one would ever see it anyway unless they were in the back corner of the lot trying to get into my shed. The homeowners assn is a bunch of "you know whats" they even...
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    Dish Network Prepaid Question

    I set it up yesterday and got it all working just fine. Got line of site in a perfect spot on the back corner of the roof. Well, for me it's prepaid or nothing. This is a vacation/2nd home near the beach. If I were at the place full time I'd have Cable or Regular pay Satellite. I"m there less...
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    Digital vs. Analog antenna power.

    I was researching the transmitter tower info of the two rural stations that broadcast around my 2nd home. Both transmit a regular UHF as well as a digital subchannel that is HD. I noticed that the digital transmitter power was significantly less than the regular antenna power. Does Digital carry...
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    Dish Network Prepaid Question

    FYI, this is all great info and got me to buy my equipment on ebay. I too chose to use the greendot moneypak. I did a test setup at my work and will install at my vacation home sometime next week. One thing I found is that they send the activation signal to your box once. If you pay for the...
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    Alligning 119/110 w/ a 301 reciever

    Great! The thing I was not doing was unplugging for as long as 30 seconds. That did the trick! When not leaving it unplugged it did not even have the "help" button and was stuck in that screen. I'm back in business. Thx for the quick help!!!!
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    Alligning 119/110 w/ a 301 reciever

    Lots of good info. Thx I still need to figure out how to get back into the allignment screen though. If anyone has an idea, let me know.
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    Alligning 119/110 w/ a 301 reciever

    BTW, I read in another place where they describe using 2 meters in an LNB that does not have the built in switch. If I am sweeping across the az from left to right, would I see 110 first from the 119 antenna? So I would then keep sweeping right until I see 119? I"m thinking if I sweep left to...
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    Alligning 119/110 w/ a 301 reciever

    I have a 301 reciever that I am trying to get experiance alligning before I actually install it at a vacation home. Because I want to be able to understand how everything works and be able to service it myself, I chose to buy the hardware and install myself (knowing this would be quite an...
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    Dish camouflage

    I'm pretty certain that I will not have LOS if I mount it anywhere near the house. If so, I don't think I'll have to camo it. I'm pretty sure that I'll have to mount it near some trees in the front yard on a pole. My house is nearly totally surrounded by trees except for the driveway and a...
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    Dish camouflage

    I"m installing a Dish Network Dish now (prepaid) system at a vacation home next month. Based on Google maps of my place It looks like I will likely have to put the dish in the front of the house near some trees or possibly on the side of the house facing a street but surrounded by trees. I'm...