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  1. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    The last spot beam on D9S using TPN 18 was shut down, and the SD duplicates for Chicago on TPN 18 were moved to a National trasnponder on D16 TPN 18. The only active spot beams on D9S today are on TPNs 12 and 20.
  2. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    This morning DIRECTV removed the slate displays that replaced the SD duplicate locals for Baltimore, Birmingham, Houston, Seattle, and Washington.
  3. Tom Speer

    DVR via app

    I may have been affected by something else. Here is the whole scenario. On Sunday April 14th CBS broadcast a Billy Joel Concert. It was delayed by other live programming running long, then the prime time shows shifted later. I extended the recording time of Ttracker and the Billy Joel...
  4. Tom Speer

    DVR via app

    i encountered that last week. I tried to schedule a recording from my loacal station,wen I was outside my home DMA. I wanted to watch it when I got home. Didn't work.
  5. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    Thursday morning. The spot beam on D9S TPN 28 was shut down overnight Wednesday and TPN 28 on D16 was activated.
  6. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    DIRECTV did an overnight transfer of the Atlanta SD duplicates from a spot beam on D9S tpn 26 to a National beam on D16 tpn 26. So far they have shut down the spot beam transponders on D9S TPN 4 and TPN 26. TPN 18 has only one spot beam active (Chicago), and TPN 28 only has Los Angeles locals.
  7. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    Agreed. They can't use the Ka transponders at 101, they are too close to 99 and 103. But D16 was designed to function at any of the DirecTV licensed locations. I've never seen anything about the total number of transponders it can power simultaneously (that I recall).
  8. Tom Speer

    DVR via app

    The HR24 software develpment has been frozen for years.
  9. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    I prefer to deal from facts, not speculation. But while we are speculating, I had a less sinister thought in mind. D9S is only licensed until July 31 2024, when it is sceduled to go to disposal orbit. D16 is going to pick up those spotbeam frequencies as national transponders, we think. They...
  10. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    That is what DIRECTV requested, but the request was "granted in part and denied in part". I can find no record of that grant in the FCC database. According to the FCC database the current authorization for D5 expires 02/28/2027.
  11. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    The two systems that I use for capturing the APG data and feeding REDH use Legacy SL5 LNBs (no SWM and no Reverse Band). So I can monitor 110 for signals, if they are DSS (SD) signals. The modified DVBS2 modulation and encoding used for DirecTV's Mpeg4 transmission can't be received by those...
  12. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    The current LNBs that receive 119 also recelve 110. They are not installed in most residential accounts, unless they needed the 119 SD locals. This may be for some niche subset of customers.
  13. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    I'm not sure where this is headed. DIRECTV has filed for, and been granted permission to reorient D5@110 to its original orientation, covering the lower 48 and Alaska. It had been reorinted to cover Puerto Rico, and lately left in an elliptical orbit requiring little fuel for station keeping...
  14. Tom Speer

    Audio for OTA channels with LCC stops working after March 12, 2024 Software Update 0x1a4a on HR44-500

    No. 0x1A4A is now the National Customer Release. Prior versions are not available on the satellite. All regular customer Genies have been upgraded to that version. 0x1A4A is the end result of the development of software cycle PI38. The Cutting Edge Program last tested a PI38 build in...
  15. Tom Speer

    Gas Price Info With National Gas Temperature Map

    I just filled up at $3.04 here at the Speedway near me in New Bern NC. The Mobil across the street was the same price. The usually cheaper stations at Walmart, BP and GoGas are all at $3.09.
  16. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    After over a month of final warnings, The San Francisco and Sacramento SD duplicate locals were removed two weeks ago, being replaced by static slates telling customers to call DIRECTV. These were only visible to people with SD only equipment. The slates were removed from the Guide data on...
  17. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    This morning (Monday) they removed slates for the SD locals in Boston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Denver, Memphis, Paducah, Pittsburgh, and Sacramento. Those SD duplicate locals will no longer show in the guide.
  18. Tom Speer

    Gas Price Info With National Gas Temperature Map

    Correction, I meant premium Non-Ethanol.
  19. Tom Speer

    Gas Price Info With National Gas Temperature Map

    i agree. But the cheapest gas station near me sells 2 grades, regular and premium no-lead.
  20. Tom Speer

    Gas Price Info With National Gas Temperature Map

    It not only comes from the same refinery, it flows through the same pipeline to the fuel depots. Any additive would have to be added at the local depot storage tank. I buy the cheapest gas I can find. I keep my vehicles for a long time, and I never had a problem with "carbon buildup".
  21. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    Let's just say the national transponder test signal on D16@101 tpn 4 is up and down. This morning it is up.
  22. Tom Speer

    DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 4/24/2024

    Today (Saturday) that test signal from D16@101 TPN 4 is gone.
  23. Tom Speer

    Audio for OTA channels with LCC stops working after March 12, 2024 Software Update 0x1a4a on HR44-500

    Oh, one other thing. Try turning off Dolby Audio on the HR44. That's never going to survive conversion to analog. It won't even pass over optical or coaxial digital cables.
  24. Tom Speer

    Audio for OTA channels with LCC stops working after March 12, 2024 Software Update 0x1a4a on HR44-500

    Try using the speakers on your Samsung TV as a test. The HR54 is probably putting out digital audio, and the Samsung may not be converting it to analog for the RCA cables. If your TV has a ARC HDMI port, and the Onkyo has a an ARC HDMI output running the sound that way works much better...
  25. Tom Speer

    Audio for OTA channels with LCC stops working after March 12, 2024 Software Update 0x1a4a on HR44-500

    I have an LCC and have not experienced the problem you described. But I am not running, and have never run version 0x1A4A. In Cutting edge testing, we tested a version leading up to 0x1A4A and did not have any LCC problems reported.