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Ok, so I'm sitting here since about 3:30pm yesterday watching tv.... for free!! I owe a lot of you some thank you's. Iceburg, Anole, Turbosat, Cadsulfide, osu1991, and anyone else I forgot. I should actually thank everyone here because I have done so much reading in the past couple weeks.
Also, a big thanks (maybe even a plug) to Bryansr. He had a coolsat 6000 in the classifieds. Talked to him on Friday and paid him Friday evening. He sent out the coolsat Saturday.
So, I spent Sunday running all the cable under my house, grounding it, and running it to my living room. All I had to do was plant a pole and tune in the Primestar dish I scored for free. (and pray it worked) I figured when I got home from working yesterday that I would go ahead and set the pole and trench the line to the house so everything would be hooked up and working. I finally found a 2 1/4 pole late Sunday evening (also for free compliments of my Father in law who does construction.)
So I get home about 1pm and am driving down my driveway and notice a box on my front porch. I wasn't even expecting the receiver to arrive until Tuesday at the earlies, Wed being more probable. Low and behold, I don't know who Bryansr knows at the post office
.... but there was the coolsat 6000. From Georgia to Missouri, mailed Saturday and here Monday. What a surprise. So of course I got to work on that dish immediately. Dug a hole, made sure it was plumb and level, pounded that sucker in deep and concreted with about 60lbs of concrete. Trenched the line and hooked it up. Mounted the dish and went to work finding G18. Now, luckily for me I have a birddog since I do installations for a living, but I have to say that G18 was a bugger to find. I wasn't having much luck, so I decided to do it the old fashion way.... line up with compass as close as I can and see if receiver would lock and then make a billion trips in and out of the house checking for signal. I finally got a little bit of a lock. ( I say finally, it was only about 20 minutes of work) Then I hooked back up the birdog, played around carefully and found it. Once I found it I maxed it out on my meter. I came back inside, did a blind scan and the rest is history.
Of course..another plug for this site... soon to becoming will be a pub membership because I feel like such a freeloader since I have gained a ton of knowledge from this site.
Just figured I'd share a FTA success story and I owed a big thanks to everyone for being so helpful. My only complaint right now is that I'm already wanting a motor... dang I can see this hobby adding up, but so far I don't have too much money tied up. Anyone reading this thinking of getting into it, if your patient and smart you can do a good job of scrapping up what a lot of people don't want and save $$.
Motor question.... I know mounting that primestar dish to a primestar will be a bit challenging, but can be done. Will I have a problem mounting the motor to a 2 1/4 inch pole?
Also, I've got great signal strength on all G18 channels except the vetrans channel? Shows up as Channel 3-VBA 10.731H 13.240. Signal is only 63-64% and pixilated with choppy sound half the time and other time picture is better but starts to pixilate. Right now it's terrible. Just about all my other channels are coming in at 85-94%. A few jump all over from 63-87 but never break up.
And I have no sound on Retrojams 11.114V 4.340 but figure maybe that's normal or do I need to adjust something?
Once again to all, Thank You!!!!
BTW.. found posts for retrojams no sound problem, looks like I need an ac-3 receiver...dang it. Now if I only understood spanish
Also, a big thanks (maybe even a plug) to Bryansr. He had a coolsat 6000 in the classifieds. Talked to him on Friday and paid him Friday evening. He sent out the coolsat Saturday.
So, I spent Sunday running all the cable under my house, grounding it, and running it to my living room. All I had to do was plant a pole and tune in the Primestar dish I scored for free. (and pray it worked) I figured when I got home from working yesterday that I would go ahead and set the pole and trench the line to the house so everything would be hooked up and working. I finally found a 2 1/4 pole late Sunday evening (also for free compliments of my Father in law who does construction.)
So I get home about 1pm and am driving down my driveway and notice a box on my front porch. I wasn't even expecting the receiver to arrive until Tuesday at the earlies, Wed being more probable. Low and behold, I don't know who Bryansr knows at the post office
.... but there was the coolsat 6000. From Georgia to Missouri, mailed Saturday and here Monday. What a surprise. So of course I got to work on that dish immediately. Dug a hole, made sure it was plumb and level, pounded that sucker in deep and concreted with about 60lbs of concrete. Trenched the line and hooked it up. Mounted the dish and went to work finding G18. Now, luckily for me I have a birddog since I do installations for a living, but I have to say that G18 was a bugger to find. I wasn't having much luck, so I decided to do it the old fashion way.... line up with compass as close as I can and see if receiver would lock and then make a billion trips in and out of the house checking for signal. I finally got a little bit of a lock. ( I say finally, it was only about 20 minutes of work) Then I hooked back up the birdog, played around carefully and found it. Once I found it I maxed it out on my meter. I came back inside, did a blind scan and the rest is history. Of course..another plug for this site... soon to becoming will be a pub membership because I feel like such a freeloader since I have gained a ton of knowledge from this site.
Just figured I'd share a FTA success story and I owed a big thanks to everyone for being so helpful. My only complaint right now is that I'm already wanting a motor... dang I can see this hobby adding up, but so far I don't have too much money tied up. Anyone reading this thinking of getting into it, if your patient and smart you can do a good job of scrapping up what a lot of people don't want and save $$.
Motor question.... I know mounting that primestar dish to a primestar will be a bit challenging, but can be done. Will I have a problem mounting the motor to a 2 1/4 inch pole?
Also, I've got great signal strength on all G18 channels except the vetrans channel? Shows up as Channel 3-VBA 10.731H 13.240. Signal is only 63-64% and pixilated with choppy sound half the time and other time picture is better but starts to pixilate. Right now it's terrible. Just about all my other channels are coming in at 85-94%. A few jump all over from 63-87 but never break up.
And I have no sound on Retrojams 11.114V 4.340 but figure maybe that's normal or do I need to adjust something?
Once again to all, Thank You!!!!
BTW.. found posts for retrojams no sound problem, looks like I need an ac-3 receiver...dang it. Now if I only understood spanish
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congrats on getting it up and working
I've sent a couple items out o a Saturday and they got them on Monday. I know one went to Missouri too (from Minnesota) so maybe its your post office
I know that channel is low signal on my Coolsat too
I do like the motor, but Cad has a good point.
Easy to add that 2nd dish, and then it's just like Oreos - you can't get enough.
But at least, our addiction is socially acceptable, cheaper, and a positive influence on your life and others. -
Anyway, for up to four and maybe eight LNBs (or dishes), there are simple switch hookups over in our FAQ department.
Don't forget multiple LNBs per dish. That's the battle cry of some guys, here!
So, the motor is not the only good solution.
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Direct YouTube Link - AI Can Self-Replicate: Unplugging the Threat! #shorts
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Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w5TOILSc_U8
Direct YouTube Link - AI Model Poisoning: The Hidden Threat on Hugging Face #shorts
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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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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
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.
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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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
Help, I'm a little confjused on the activation process.
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
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All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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i bought mine straight from dish as it was only $ 100.00 bucks!!! had the protection plan they came out removed and deactivated the 4k joey and activated and installed the joey 4.All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
The new curated multiview is now live.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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