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Well I have spent the last few weeks of my spare time wiring a new house for my sister and some rewiring of my own. I finally decided with the cooler weather and seeing all the football feeds it was time to put the 7 1/2 ftr back up, but rain today stopped that idea, so I thought I would mess with the Primestar 84e I have that has a 75e arm on it.
My previous attempt with this dish was frustrating as I was right on the threshold of locking a signal on 123w. I could get KTWO( ABC) at about 66% quality and that was it Well I started at 97 and worked my way around the arc to see what I could get. It seems I can get everything within about 4degrees in either direction of my True South and then I start having problems. The Coolsat 6000's threshold seems to be right at 64-65% quality and as I move further from the south I come close but just can't get enough to lock. After a lot of tweaking I finally got 11720 on 123 at 66 to 67% quality but that is about it. I get a couple of scrambled but the other TP are all right at 60-61 and won't lock. I will have to order some lnbs so I can play around with this dish. The weather forecast is looking nice for the next week, unfortunately my sister will close and be moving into her new house at the end of this week. So hopefully I can get the big dish back up in the next couple of weeks.
The pictures below are of the wiring cabinets I installed and have been working on, weeknights for the past 2 weeks at my sisters home and mine. The first three are the video and data lines at her house and the last two are the cabinets I have had installed and just never got around to cleaning up the installation in mine. There is 4000 ft of QS RG6, 3000 ft of cat6 and about 600 ft of speaker wire plus 4 75ft hdmi cables in her house. Each room is set up for hdmi,component and ethernet distribution of anything they may want to do. I am really jealous of their southern exposure. It is perfect for as many dishes as one could want and can see the entire arc.
edit pictures are a little blurry because all I had was my pda at the time and it was late and I couldn't see straight by that time!
My previous attempt with this dish was frustrating as I was right on the threshold of locking a signal on 123w. I could get KTWO( ABC) at about 66% quality and that was it Well I started at 97 and worked my way around the arc to see what I could get. It seems I can get everything within about 4degrees in either direction of my True South and then I start having problems. The Coolsat 6000's threshold seems to be right at 64-65% quality and as I move further from the south I come close but just can't get enough to lock. After a lot of tweaking I finally got 11720 on 123 at 66 to 67% quality but that is about it. I get a couple of scrambled but the other TP are all right at 60-61 and won't lock. I will have to order some lnbs so I can play around with this dish. The weather forecast is looking nice for the next week, unfortunately my sister will close and be moving into her new house at the end of this week. So hopefully I can get the big dish back up in the next couple of weeks.
The pictures below are of the wiring cabinets I installed and have been working on, weeknights for the past 2 weeks at my sisters home and mine. The first three are the video and data lines at her house and the last two are the cabinets I have had installed and just never got around to cleaning up the installation in mine. There is 4000 ft of QS RG6, 3000 ft of cat6 and about 600 ft of speaker wire plus 4 75ft hdmi cables in her house. Each room is set up for hdmi,component and ethernet distribution of anything they may want to do. I am really jealous of their southern exposure. It is perfect for as many dishes as one could want and can see the entire arc.
edit pictures are a little blurry because all I had was my pda at the time and it was late and I couldn't see straight by that time!
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I actually started on that, but got swamped and am still swamped with work. I was getting close to zeroing in on the sweet spot. I had 64% quality on all the transponders on 123w, but couldn't get any higher when I got pulled away for work. I made a sleeve out of some 1x1 I had laying around from another project, but I stumbled upon the website for Impackt Distributing and they were selling refurb Primestar dishes along with other satellite equipment. I emailed about parts for the primestar / channelmaster dishes and I ended up ordering an arm for the 84e for 15.00. It is scheduled to arrive tomorrow.
Unfortunately I have 3 other packages all showing scheduled to arrive tomorrow and I will be out of town all day. Got to get someone over here to wait on them for me or I may have a stack of boxes sitting on my front porch.
I found a 1m and a 1.2m channel master dishes today,with trees and bushes overgrowing them at an old building in the middle of nowhere, looked like an old convenience store possibly. I left a couple of cards on the door and the mailbox.
Unfortunately I have 3 other packages all showing scheduled to arrive tomorrow and I will be out of town all day. Got to get someone over here to wait on them for me or I may have a stack of boxes sitting on my front porch.
I found a 1m and a 1.2m channel master dishes today,with trees and bushes overgrowing them at an old building in the middle of nowhere, looked like an old convenience store possibly. I left a couple of cards on the door and the mailbox.
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This should hit a lot of folks with a dose of reality. I can only imagine how much more common this will get as AI progresses.
I read several stories on this and most are clear as mud. They say a lot of the stolen bitcoin has been "locked out" and that everyone will be made financially whole. I guess time will tell if either of these statements are actually true.
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I read several stories on this and most are clear as mud. They say a lot of the stolen bitcoin has been "locked out" and that everyone will be made financially whole. I guess time will tell if either of these statements are actually true.
Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft
The company later added it began recovering assets impacted by the breach after pledging to cover losses using its Secure Asset Fund for Users.
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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....
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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Pissed off at the crappy healthcare costs
My health Insurance renewal for 2027 just came in. Going from $827 a month to $1,187 a month. Deductible going up a $1k to $9,350. Max out of pocket also going up $1k to $11,000. Doctor co-pay of $40. Urgent Care co-pay $50. ER 50% coinsurance after deductible. That's all in network. Out of network is double, should it be needed.
Have to think about this. I'm really tempted to just go without now. I only go to the doctor once or twice a year. I pay out of pocket for Tirzepitide and can do without the Rosuvastatin (crestor) now. Really tired of spending over $10k a year and getting nothing out of it.
After years with Blue Cross I switched last year to Ambetter as my Blue Cross premium was going from $1200 to $1800 for a Silver plan and the Bronze plan was still going to be $1300 at BCBS. Ambetter was $827 for the same coverage with a Bronze plan. Didn't think it would jump this much so soon.
I'm guessing a Silver plan is probably over $2,000 a month for 2027.
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Yes.....they do. Which is why I am very careful when at a customer's house these days....you NEVER know what is going to set someone off. Polite dialog is a thing of the past.....which is why I like my dog so much
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Some of the channels start next week.
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SiriusXM Delivers the Soundtrack to the Holidays with Its Festive Lineup of 25 Handcrafted Seasonal Music Channels
Lineup features channels produced and presented by celebrated personalities and iconic brands, including Jimmy Fallon, Hallmark,…...
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I figured some of the guys would be looking here for an answer. You'll need to use this link
I'll mention what happened over there. I don't want to cause Scott any issues or put him in a bad spot.
I'll mention what happened over there. I don't want to cause Scott any issues or put him in a bad spot.
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Now I have to go check out what happened now. Lol!I figured some of the guys would be looking here for an answer. You'll need to use this link
I'll mention what happened over there. I don't want to cause Scott any issues or put him in a bad spot.
Went and looked, not too bad...
Just let people know the address is satelliteretailer.com as DishRetailer.COM is not working.
Just let people know the address is satelliteretailer.com as DishRetailer.COM is not working.
I sent you a PM Scott. Doesn't really make any sense to me BUT....I've never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer....though I just might be the most persistent.
Its an automated bot. Explained it to you in the PM.I sent you a PM Scott. Doesn't really make any sense to me BUT....I've never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer....though I just might be the most persistent.
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America’s Fastest-Growing EV State Isn’t California—Not by a Long Shot
New data shows electric vehicle adoption is increasingly driven by state policies, electricity prices and charging access—not federal incentives
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The number-one US state for EV growth, according to the June 22 Yardi report?
Oklahoma.
It has no ZEV mandates and "minimal" incentives, Yardi says, but also has cheap electricity, high multi-car household rates (so, for example, a non-Lightning Ford F-150 pulls their trailers), and a consumer base willing to switch.
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Never realized that Tesla is losing to BYD at manufacturing too, which IMO is Tesla's biggest accomplishment and area of innovation. Nice writeup about the state of play and how we got here though. I have no faith that we're moving any productive direction though sadly, most changes and efforts feel reactionary rather than rooted in making use of the time being bought by tariffs, with few exceptions.
So: how are the cars so cheap, and what is being cut to get there? The best public accounting comes from the Rhodium Group, which compared BYD, Geely, and Leapmotor against Tesla's Chinese operation, a fair comparison because it removes labor costs and shipping from the equation entirely. Their estimate is that BYD builds a car for about $4,700 less than Tesla builds a Model 3 in Shanghai, roughly 15 percent of the Model 3's price. The breakdown is the interesting part. Direct government grants account for about $292 per vehicle, which is 5 percent of the gap. The biggest single factor is vertical integration: BYD makes about 80 percent of its top-tier components in-house, against 37 percent for Tesla, and that eliminates roughly $2,369 per vehicle in supplier markups. Lower overhead, meaning cheaper engineering talent and administrative cost spread across enormous volume, accounts for another $1,719. And BYD pays its suppliers on 155-day terms, against Tesla's 60, which is worth about $214 per car in float. When people say the Chinese advantage is subsidies, the per-vehicle number says otherwise. When people say it is slave wages, the Tesla Shanghai comparison says otherwise too. The advantage is mostly that BYD decided, twenty years ago, to make its own batteries, its own motors, its own power electronics, and its own semiconductors, and Western automakers decided the opposite.
GM Is Coming for Tesla, Rivian, and China, on Your Phone and in the Car
GM’s latest tech preview details autonomous highway driving plans, AI-powered OnStar features, and new LMR batteries for future EVs.
GM said its next-generation vehicle architecture will provide 40 times more computing power and 30 percent less wiring than before and will expand from the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ to its high-volume SUVs, trucks, crossovers, and fourth-generation EVs, which will be powered by lithium manganese-rich (LMR) prismatic batteries
Despite the politicization and perceived consumer pivot away from EVs in America, GM needs to remain globally competitive, so it's doubling down on its fourth generation EVs, with energy-dense, cheaper-to-manufacture LMR batteries, more efficient motors, and state-of-the-art centralized computing architecture. With a stated goal of cutting the traditional four- to five-year concept-to-production time in half, GM is clearly challenging the concept of "China speed," which in the Chinese automotive industry can be as quick as 18 months from design to start of production. In the AI space, GM is smartly collapsing all of its marque-specific apps under the familiar OnStar brand, while providing more features—both on the phone and in the car—than it ever has before.
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That's how Ford did it- vertical integration. He even set up a rubber plantation in S. Americatomwellborn3rd (@wellborn.net)
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Never realized that Tesla is losing to BYD at manufacturing too, which IMO is Tesla's biggest accomplishment and area of innovation. Nice writeup about the state of play and how we got here though. I have no faith that we're moving any productive direction though sadly, most changes and efforts feel reactionary rather than rooted in making use of the time being bought by tariffs, with few exceptions.
So: how are the cars so cheap, and what is being cut to get there? The best public accounting comes from the Rhodium Group, which compared BYD, Geely, and Leapmotor against Tesla's Chinese operation, a fair comparison because it removes labor costs and shipping from the equation entirely. Their estimate is that BYD builds a car for about $4,700 less than Tesla builds a Model 3 in Shanghai, roughly 15 percent of the Model 3's price. The breakdown is the interesting part. Direct government grants account for about $292 per vehicle, which is 5 percent of the gap. The biggest single factor is vertical integration: BYD makes about 80 percent of its top-tier components in-house, against 37 percent for Tesla, and that eliminates roughly $2,369 per vehicle in supplier markups. Lower overhead, meaning cheaper engineering talent and administrative cost spread across enormous volume, accounts for another $1,719. And BYD pays its suppliers on 155-day terms, against Tesla's 60, which is worth about $214 per car in float. When people say the Chinese advantage is subsidies, the per-vehicle number says otherwise. When people say it is slave wages, the Tesla Shanghai comparison says otherwise too. The advantage is mostly that BYD decided, twenty years ago, to make its own batteries, its own motors, its own power electronics, and its own semiconductors, and Western automakers decided the opposite.
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I have Dish Hopper and Hopper Plus and also have Alexa Echo. I link the Alex skill to Dish and it asks me to enter the pairing code shown on the TV. I go into Dish Settings and there is no Alexa shown. Not sure what to do.
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