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    Goodbye Charlie... (OFFICIAL I am Leaving DISH Thread)

    I am a longstanding Dish customer (since they bought Voom). With the new Dual receiver & HD DVR fee's, I have dropped 2 of my 4 receivers from my account (dropped my 2nd ViP 622 and a 222K I had as well, as these went up to $17 + $14 / month each). I also dropped HBO, since I rarely watch it...
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    Sling Receiver 300

    I just want to get the "Sling Receiver 300" to get rid of the extra ViP 622's I have for extra HDTV's, I am not happy with this new per box montly charge. If the Sling Receiver doesn't come out, I am likely going to cancel my dish account, and return all of the equipment. enough is enough. I...
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    120cm dish with C-Band performance - Now with HD!

    not quite... That andrew spec sheet has 1 clue on it: "available with C-Band OR KU-band" the keyword is OR, not AND.... plus, that assembly is really designed for 2 way satellite applications in EITHER C-Band or KU-Band.. not both. It's designed to have a transmitter on 1 port, and and...
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    offer from dish...this is better!!!!

    Don't worry about the 2 year commitment If you sign up with Dish, and they deploy MPEG4, and you are a paying subscriber, don't you think they will have a reasonable offer for new MPEG4 equipment (such as the new 411 receiver), or upgrade your equipment for free? They want to keep you as a...
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    Are You Vooming Again On Dish Yet?

    Sounds like he has 3 dishes: 61.5, 148, and a Dish 500 for 110/119 He MUST be on the west coast, the locals for the West coast are mostly on the 148 dish. 61.5 is for the VOOM HD channels... I thought DN still had a bug that would not allow both a 61.5 and a 148 dish, I guess they must...
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    It's yours

    In Post #114 on this thread, I said the DN Provider ID is 00 01, which I am getting from my FTA Receiver, that is in the EMU section (emulator), give that a try... Just as an FYI, the only channel you will get on 61.5 should be the HD Demo channel, everything else is encrypted via Nagravision...
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    It's yours

    I am an FTA guy, that's how I got you all those numbers DN is using :-) It's hard to try and guess what Motorola was thinking, and what they expect in that Frequency spot. I would keep experiementing, or ask on a Motorola forum.. That entire diagnotic screen was most likely for testing...
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    It's yours

    Symbol rate is most likely 20Msps (mega symbols per second), not 22.5 (at least on my FTA receiver, all DN TP's are 20Msps) Try both polaritys (left / right), also known as even/odd. That should do it, if it's going to work... Mitch
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    It's yours

    As an FYI, DN uses 20Mbps Symbol Rate (Nagravision 1, anyway..), DVB broadcasting, the 22khz tone is used on a switch to select the proper LNB..... LNB Frequency: 11250, not sure of the DVB mode... DN Provider ID: 00 01 Maybe this will help you... DN is encrypted, so you might just get the...
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    Not Happy with Dish HD

    MPEG4 arriving Did any one catch a few posts back (post #13 in this thread), Dish told him his 921 would NOT work after August for VOOM? I hope Dish plans to have those 411's out soon, and I wonder about the 942's and all of the 811's being bought on fleabay... Mitch P.S. This is why I...
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    How do I recieve an OTA signal from a nearby market?

    use a rotor, there is not really any good way to connect 2 OTA antenna's together, you are ASKING for trouble (multipath, ghosting, etc) Mitch
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    RUMOR: VoOm STB w/Dish in Canada

    I find that nearly impossible, since EchoStar uses DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting), while VOOM was using a Digicipher format... Their is no way that Digiccipher can decode DVB broadcasts. It's totally untrue. Mitch
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    Can Someone Summarize Dish's Plans?

    RBBrittain: Yes, I have been saying this for a while... Since Dish Network now has 9 unused transponders on 61.5, and, they are using 4 of them for VOOM (total of 13 transponders), it makes sense for one of their first MPEG4 experiments to probably try out the new 411 MPEG4 receivers, and try...
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    Instructions for Adding the 61.5 - revised 05/04

    Try moving the LNB back to port 3A, that should get you the odd transponders.. Don't worry about what checkswitch is saying, now that you have the sat locked in, it should work just fine. You got the HDTV DEMO channel because its on an EVEN transponder (port 3B) Mitch
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    It's yours

    They are already showing up on eBay, most are selling for between $25-$35
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    What do I do with my VOOM receiver?

    sounds like they deactivated your receiver... Had you stayed until the end, it would still work as an OTA reciever. Since you left early, they disabled your STB... Mitch
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    offer from dish...this is better!!!!

    SuperDish vs. Dish 500 The SuperDish has the Dual LNB for 110/119 and it also has either a 105 FSS LNB or the 121 FSS LNB, depending upon which SuperDish you get (yes, they are different models because the of the FSS LNB). The Dish 500 is essentialy the same thing, except there is no position...
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    HD ONLY Package Pricing at Dish Network..

    You probably need 110 & 119 as well... Some of the HD channels are on those sats, such as ESPN HD, Discovery HD, TNT, HDNet & HDnet movies. You are going to have to pay the $10 for these channels anyway (you MUST get the HDPack), so you might as well get a dish pointed to 110 & 119 and get...
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    HD ONLY Package Pricing at Dish Network..

    Standard dishs and LNB's work just fine, with the right switch If have you "legacy" LNBs (read: NOT Dishpro), then you just get yourself a SW-64 switch (p-lenty of them on fleabay), connect 110 & 119 LNBs up, and there is a third position for 61.5/148. Then connect that to up to 4 recievers...
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    Any BOSTON metro VOOMers?

    Needham towers There are 3 Towers in Needham, they are all shared. You can clearly see them driving on RT128 (I refuse to call it I95, since it isn't) BTW, ALL of my local Digital stations are comming in just fine now... Mitch
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    Any BOSTON metro VOOMers?

    VOOMS position on adding your own STB's I asked VOOM if I could buy STB's on eBay, since they are popping up all over the place like weeds for between $40 and $75, and, of course they said "nope, we won't activate them". That's kind of disappoint for me, I have done my own installs, run the...
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    Any BOSTON metro VOOMers?

    Yes, CH 7-1 finally comming in on VOOM STB's :D Looks like either WHDH and/or VOOM worked out the issue (possibly bad encoder at the transmitter?), glad it finally works, and I can keep VOOM... I was starting to get concerned. Mitch :)
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    Any BOSTON metro VOOMers?

    Gee, I guess that since I can get CH 7-1 on my NON-VOOM STB's, right NOW, I guess it has nothing to do with VOOM. Think about what you are saying. If it is something related to CH 7-1, it does NOT affect my NON-VOOM Set Top Boxes.
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    Any BOSTON metro VOOMers?

    CH 7-1 comes in on 2 of my non-VOOM STB's If its a CH7-1 problem, how do you explain that I can get it on BOTH of my non-VOOM STB's? Both an old RCA-DTC 100 has no problem, and so does a korean clone STB I have "MyMaxTV".. CH 7-1 comes in perfectly on both of them. Look at the response from...