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Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
This came up last month on an RV Forum and has come up again for a different Dish user. Anyone got any ideas. My old Dish rcvr worked fine on 119 in the RV last week. And in the past they have always hit the box when needed.
John
"We went to Florida to the same location as the year before. I was unable to get reception.
My wife phoned DishTV and told them of this. She was told I could not use a receiver from home in our RV! after a long discussion that was headed no where, she was told we must have a separate account for the RV."
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I am not sure why you can't get the dish to work in the same location. I can't believe the technology is there that the Sat company can tell where you are and turn off signal at that specific location only for your receiver. Or am I missunderstanding your comments. I do not understand what you mean by "And in the past they have always hit the box when needed" Not sure what you mean there.

I camp 10 to 12 times a year in a travel trailer. My dish network (spare) dish and one of my home receivers come along also. As long as I am able to get the signal and lock on it, I have everything I usually do at home (except locals if I am camping outside my local spotbeam). I just don't call Dish and tell them I am taking it camping! Also, my logest camping trip would be 2 weeks so why call them? I don't understand why. It is not worth it to turn off (vacation stoppage or whatever they call it) the home receivers for that short of a period to save a few pennies.

Now there are cases where I can't get a signal. But in those cases, I just put the dish away and enjoy the peace and quiet!
Van
Van
I am not sure why you can't get the dish to work in the same location. I can't believe the technology is there that the Sat company can tell where you are and turn off signal at that specific location only for your receiver.
If the dish isnt pointed at the sat correctly then it wont get signal, and dish doesnt have the tech to see where its boxes are at but the audit department can when it calls you.
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If the dish isnt pointed at the sat correctly then it wont get signal, and dish doesnt have the tech to see where its boxes are at but the audit department can when it calls you.

Best thing to do is keep the box plugged into the phone line at home, take it into the RV when you leave.
M
Best thing to do is keep the box plugged into the phone line at home, take it into the RV when you leave.

More importantly is keeping it connected to a live satellite feed (at home). The updates and smart card hits only happen through the sat feed.
J
More importantly is keeping it connected to a live satellite feed (at home). The updates and smart card hits only happen through the sat feed.
And, apparently, the software updates only come down on 110. That was what caused the software to be so out of date at one point. It was only hooked to a 119 feed in a back bedroom when not in the RV. And the dish I carry in the RV is an old Dish 300 that came with this receiver. First time I hooked it to a 110/119 feed it spent over 20 minutes downloading updates. Now it stays on a 110/119 feed when at home and has been ok ever since even though it may be out on just a 119 feed for 3 or 4 weeks at a time..
digiblur
And, apparently, the software updates only come down on 110. That was what caused the software to be so out of date at one point. It was only hooked to a 119 feed in a back bedroom when not in the RV. And the dish I carry in the RV is an old Dish 300 that came with this receiver. First time I hooked it to a 110/119 feed it spent over 20 minutes downloading updates. Now it stays on a 110/119 feed when at home and has been ok ever since even though it may be out on just a 119 feed for 3 or 4 weeks at a time..

No, I believe the software updates are on just about every satellite location.
dlsnyder
I had never read through the form before, but if I read it correctly my Mazda pickup truck qualifies. It is registered as a commercial vehicle in California. Maybe I should give it a try!
M
No, I believe the software updates are on just about every satellite location.

correct. All Dish satellite locations can get the update. I've recived updates on 148 a few times
M
and you can have them on the same account. My aunt & uncle have a RV waiver form and they have 3 boxes in the house and one in the RV. They use to have distants too via that until DIsh had to pull them :(
S
I thought on one of the Charlie Chat's or Tech Chat's, or maybe a SatelilteGuys Recap, when they first talked about the "Single 18 inch Dish MPEG4 Service" being launched this December, they also said RV will need a separate account.

Maybe that only applied to the MPEG4 service, or maybe what they were really trying to say is that all NEW RV or other mobile services will need a separate account.

I don't know, but the only solution is not to tell them.

If your receiver has been unplugged and no longer authorized, then set it up and make sure you have signal; you don't need to be a subscriber for a satellite receiver to lock on the satellite signal. After it locks on, call support and tell them your receiver is not working, you had a power failure a few hours before and it never came back up.

In either case, I would not leave it in the garage for a year without signals so that it can stay up on the software updates.
rv1pop
I do not have D* or E* but many full timers do... They only have an RV receiver, but sometimes it is parked in the side yard... And that seems to work.
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Now that I'm retired, obviously I have different health care insurance. I take 2 prescriptions. With my old insurance I didn't have to pay for either of them, now I do. It's not a huge amount but it led me to dig a little into the cost of prescription medications. I have been using Walgreens for the longest time. But what I found was that Walgreens price is 4.8 times more for one of my prescriptions and the other is 2.3 percent more compared to the lowest price pharmacy. If you pay for prescription medications you might want to have a look at trumprx and see if you can get a lower price.


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I run them through several different providers to see who has the lowest cost

Usually it's Walmart or Sam's + GoodRx

Also...


You can also price them through the CareCard and WellRx apps.

Sometimes Amazon Pharmacy is cheapest.
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I am fortunate that the couple things I take end up being no cost to me. So far!

I get shipped 90 day supply automatically by CVS via my Medicare Advantage plan.
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My OTA is not working anymore. This started after the latest update. I have the OTA dongle with a OTA antenna that I've been using for years. My hopper does not recognize the dongle anymore and when I go to the OTA setting, it has a screen that says to plug a dongle into the USB. I tried unplugging and plugging back, in the same usb port and other ports. The Hopper does not recognize it. Anyone have same issue?
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Anyone heard any updates on this, I'm still having the issue so thought I'd check in.
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Almighty1
Anyone heard any updates on this, I'm still having the issue so thought I'd check in.
No updates but if you can get DISH Technical Operations to roll you back to H710 or earlier even though H708 would be best because it also eliminates another problem like in this comment, you will also no longer have the problem as long as you don't update manually or forced to any new version until the problem is fixed as the problem started in H711 and still exist in H712 and H713.
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dishstaller
Installed an off-air antenna a couple days ago for a customer who had just cancelled his Dish service. He had a dual off-air adapter and gave it to me. Cool. I'll keep it on the truck....might come in handy. Got to admit I don't watch anything as far as live tv goes anymore. Even if we have severe weather, our local channels will have a live feed on Youtube.
navychop
In other news, it was announced that the software fix for the two tin cans and a string will not be forthcoming. A hardware fix is required. However, that fix will let you receive stations from a gazillion miles away.

Truck roll charges may apply. Two year commitment required.
brittanygarden
Hi all. If you were using a single tuner USB OTA adapter that is no longer working, please PM me. Thanks. :)
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Loose lips sink ships for her...
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Dang. That had to hurt. I would have not handled it that well. Surprised it wasn't brought up by Heff at the challenge.
dfergie
First rule - if you get a clue follow it immediately, 2nd - keep your stuff with you in a strange place, 3rd - pay attention to your ride... (pre first - don't go if you think you might not want to stay Rob)
teachsac
Loved the tribal🤣
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Last reply · posted in SatelliteGuys Support Center
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Scott Greczkowski
Just a heads up... I just patched our PHP to close the major PHP exploit announced this morning.

Now on PHP 8.4.27 (cli) (built: Oct 20 2026 00:00:00)
harshness
More specifically, these:



A more scholarly story is here:

navychop
"WARNING Will Robinson!"
Don in CT
Just a heads up... I just patched our PHP to close the major PHP exploit announced this morning.

Now on PHP 8.4.27 (cli) (built: Oct 20 2026 00:00:00)
When I heard about this exploit I was wondering how quick you would be on it. :D
Scott Greczkowski
When I heard about this exploit I was wondering how quick you would be on it. :D
12 minutes after the patch was release I had it patched. :)
Scott Greczkowski
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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If You Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red
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You'll Always Be Loved By Me - Brooks & Dunn
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You'll Always Be the One - Dinah Shore
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Still the One - Orleans
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One Toke Over The Line - Brewer and Shipley
Bruce
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Last reply · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum
I was reading this article


That said this-
Last summer, for the first time, streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime claimed the largest share of the television viewing audience, surpassing both cable and broadcast TV. Streaming captured 34.8 percent of July viewers, according to Nielsen data, compared to 34.4 percent for cable and 21.6 percent for broadcast.

And then, sometime in the second half of 2022, cord-cutters became the majority. The share of cable and satellite television subscribers dipped to 48 percent, according to a report from Samba TV, a television technology company.


Now I do not consider those with YTTV and the likes, Cord Cutters, but they still do not have Traditional Cable/Satellite delivered Live TV, so I decided to do the math.

There are, now, 129 Million Households in the United States.

In 2015, there were 100 Million Cable/Sat Subscribers , no streaming Live TV Service.

Today, there are 66 Million Live TV subscribers, including Cable, Satellite and Streaming.

Roughly, Streaming Live TV has 14 Million subs including all of them.

So that means, Cable/Satellite now has, roughly, 51 Million Households

So in just 8 years, lost 49% of their subscribers and by the end of this year, expected sub count to be, roughly, 45 million households.

That means a total loss of 55% since 2015 at the end of 2023.

But out of 129 Million households, 45 million will mean only 35% will get Cable/Satellite Delivered Live TV by the end of 2023.

Imagine what 2024 will be like.
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Bruce
Sony is discontinuing it's last 4K disc player, Panasonic has been rumored to be doing the same, the end of physical media is unfortunately, about to happen.

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Got a Sony 700 at WM dot commie.

I think.

Ordered, anyway. Amazon let me go thru entire process but then said no inventory.

Hopefully,, WM will come thru.
dishstaller
Sony is discontinuing it's last 4K disc player, Panasonic has been rumored to be doing the same, the end of physical media is unfortunately, about to happen.
Hate to hear that. If you don't physically have something in your hand, you don't really own it.
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Bruce
Hate to hear that. If you don't physically have something in your hand, you don't really own it.
Even a physical disc purchase is considered a license, just extremely harder to pull access vs digital.

But once new players are no longer sold and older players quit working, that takes care of the access to your library.

See LaserDiscs for one example of that happening.
ncted
Sony is discontinuing it's last 4K disc player, Panasonic has been rumored to be doing the same, the end of physical media is unfortunately, about to happen.

I am so done with Sony on so many levels. This is just one small piece of it.
M
Last reply · posted in Over the Air Television By RabbitEars.Info
Interesting article about the work being done to develope an ATSC 3 converter box. Yes it does mention affordable.
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navychop
DEATH TO NEXGEN!
primestar31
DEATH TO NEXGEN!
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It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.

There is absolutely NO compelling reason for anybody to switch to ATSC3.0. They only want it as a total and complete money grab.
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navychop
I truly hope you are right.
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Mister B
What bothers me is the total waste of broadcasting spectrum in this very crowded market. It has been almost three years now since KFOX converted their broadcast tower to ATSC 3.0 and moved all of their channels to other towers causing noticeable degradation of the picture quality.
I have a Sony TV with 3.0 capabilities but still use the 1.0 version of locals due to the fact that one or all of the 3.0 channels are often missing or unwatchable. In this city of 800K I doubt that more than a few hundred even know about ATSC 3.0.
The only thing that could motivate me to be interested in 3.0 would be if all of the minor networks (diginets) could be in at least 720P rather than blurry ultra-compressed 480i.
Three years is long enough to waste one of the few available RF frequencies in the area for this trial.
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.
navychop
In this city of 800K I doubt that more than a few hundred even know about ATSC 3.0.

They might notice the hand going into their pocket for their wallet.
navychop
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.

QFT. Of course, my preference involves a curb and some kicking.
Van
Van
Last reply · posted in What's Cooking?
Who says dinner or lunch has to be the only good meals of the day?

Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
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TRG
TRG
Wound up at the Waffle House this morning. Got the two egg breakfast with coffee.

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Speaking of waffles, I'm going to put my mini waffle iron on stove so I'll remember to make waffles in the morning... Had some last week, been awhile.
dfergie
Dos cackleberrys over easy on top of 2 corned beef hash patties fried in skillet... Chocolate milk.
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Cold morning today, only 32 degrees. Fired up the oven and made cinnamon rolls (from a tube) and a pot of coffee.
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TRG
2 egg burrito with bacon and a side of hashbrowns. Coffee.

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