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  1. solarvic

    Ladders and Installing Dish?

    Do you install dish on steel roofs without them leaking!!? The way steel are installed here in pa. They put 1" X 4" furring strips over the shingle roof and the steel is the thickness of the furring strip. So if you mounted a dish on most steel roofs they would surely leak.
  2. solarvic

    Ladders and Installing Dish?

    For my orby dish I used a piece of 2 inch dia chainlink fence pipe from lowes. Took out the bolt on the top of the dish so I could slide it down the pipe leaving enough pipe sticking out out of the dish to put a cover on the top of the pipe. Put a radiator clamp under the bottom of the dish...
  3. solarvic

    Bye Bye Dish

    I havn,t had satelite since my ca. receiver got shut off. When I went to check into dish and direct tv, I decided I didn,t need thier services. I have many tv sets in my house and did not think I should have to pay for a box sub. for evert tv. So got a couple tablo players and hdhomerun and...
  4. solarvic

    Replacement TV recommendations?

    I Was interested in the sony tv that the model number ended with 900h. which is a 2020 model year, 900g is 2019 model year, 900f is model 2018. So there are some changes with imputs ect.
  5. solarvic

    Replacement TV recommendations?

    To make my post clear I didn,t say that all vizio tv,s don,t have an off air tuner. I looked at a visio that didn,t have a tuner. I thought the tv was ok And I just about bought it. I mostly watch off air tv and some roku ect. I had read that if off air is important to you that you better...
  6. solarvic

    Replacement TV recommendations?

    Only you know the quality and size of a tv you want. Things to check. You need to know what kinds of imputs you need and if it has a tuner for an antenna ect. I saw a visio once that I found didn,t have a tuner for antenna tv. It is a lot easier to do a little research to get an idea what you...
  7. solarvic

    Dryer killing signal

    I did tell you what probably could be wrong with your dryer and how to fix it!!
  8. solarvic

    Best solution for keeping snow off my dish

    The FROST KING pipe heat tape works well. A friend had his dish on the roof and I glued it on the back of the dish and run a good quality outside extension cord he had. Make sure you get a heat tape with the thermostat built into it.
  9. solarvic

    Dryer killing signal

    A lot of dryer brands are made by Whirlpool. There are idler wheels that have bearings that the drum rides on. The bearings go bad or start to drag. Also there is a spring loaded plastic idler wheel beside the motor pully to keep the dryer drum belt tight. The drive motor has an overload...
  10. solarvic

    OTA Antenna Install

    Sorry I don,tdon,t know why my message was BOLD
  11. solarvic

    OTA Antenna Install

    Maybe Dish gave you a better antenna than you had.
  12. solarvic

    Opinions on an OTA setup

    Erie channel 12 is vhf frequency, So is the reason I got the televese antenna mentioned. Some times I can get the channel 9 from stubenville ohio which is actual channel 9 feequency. on the back side of that antenna But I get stubenville on the channelmaster antenna pointed to pittsburg. I...
  13. solarvic

    Opinions on an OTA setup

    Just because you don,t like locals ,doesn,t mean that everyone has the same opinion. I like all the old tv shows way better than the new garbage they broadcast now with way lower morality standards. I agree I don,t think I would go the $2300 dollar deal either.
  14. solarvic

    Opinions on an OTA setup

    None of these channel charts are acurate for my location. This one says I need a large antenna with a pre amp and the color purple code. With that setup I would be able to receive 3 channels from youngstown. Most of them say I can,t get any channels. I can vouch that the televese antenna works...
  15. solarvic

    Opinions on an OTA setup

    Need more information. #1 How much higher is the elevation on the hill than the house? #2 What is the height of the pipe? #3 What kind of antenna rotator? #4 What antenna model and brand. #5 What brand of preamplifier. You also need rotor wire for the rotator. It might be better to put a...
  16. solarvic

    ATSC 3.0 off-air support

    They are already selling the hd homerun ATSC-3 tuner. They ordered a lot more of them than what they sold in the Kickstarter. . I ordered mine and got it in about a week. $199.00 shipped
  17. solarvic

    ATSC 3.0 off-air support

    Thanks for the explanation of Lighthouse. When I get my tower back up I want to try the pittsburg 3.0 channels with my HD Homerun tuner box. I will be using my big channel master movable antenna for the hd homerun. For now I only want to use the HD Homerun for pittsburg since its the only...
  18. solarvic

    ATSC 3.0 off-air support

    What do you mean that ATSC 3.0 will be in the lighthouse stage? Since I will be 76 in a few months I probably don,t have 5 or 10 years. The ATSC 3 tuner gives me a chance to decide whether I think it will just keep using my old tv or get a new sony ATSC 3 tv or just keep using my old 67 inch...
  19. solarvic

    ATSC 3.0 off-air support

    I got my ATSC 3 silicon dust tuner a week ago. So far I use a roku speaker, amazon stick and a nvidio to play it. The roku program guide is on the bottom of the tv screen. and the other players have it on the right side. So far just playing ATSC 1 channels and tuner gets all ota signals well...
  20. solarvic

    Ethernet Over Coaxial Cable

    Maybe I shouldn,t make a comment as I never had any dish equipment! Does your receiver have an ethernet jack on it? If it does why not just run an ethernet cable? It is easier to run an ethernet cable than a coax cable especially if you get flat cable.
  21. solarvic

    Ethernet Over Coaxial Cable

    whats a hic?
  22. solarvic

    Dish Scam alert

    When I moved from phone co. and got armstrong cable , it was the best move I rver made. They have a service that doesn,t let any spam calls go thru. Never get any election candidates or any company call me that uses automatic dialer. Heck the hospital can not even call me. I have never got 1...
  23. solarvic

    Locals from two nearby cities- Central Texas

    Jim I just did a tv fool search tonight and the frequencys havn,t been updated for years. The rabbit ears site is a whole lot better. I am going to check out rabbit ears for myself. I have some vhf frequency in pittsburg pa. I hope to still be able receive. My rotater failed and Am waiting for...