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First I need to say thank you to Gabshere for hooking me up with a used motor. He is an outstanding guy who really came through for me when I needed him. God has a special place for people like him!
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And not to mention Stogie, the not far second runner up who was also more than willing to help me. Thanks to both of you.
I crashed my motor by trying to move it with a pansat 2500 and a 2300. I had the motor pointed at amc4 and both of the other TV's were working The trouble happened when I tryed to move the dish with the 2500. I think the main reason is both of the pansat remotes are very slow and cumbersome. You sometimes have to hit a button you want several times to get the box to reconize what you want to do. Some how I must have hit go to reference or something( and by the way what does that really mean?) Anywaythe digi=power sg2100 must have gotten confused and it got suck. I had a green light but all 3 boxes would not move it. This is where the trouble started and I think You can easily tell what I did wrong from this point on. First I decided that I needed a reset, I read up and it said that I had to push and hold both buttons to reset the motor, easy enough right ? Well up to the roof and low and behold pushing the buttons did not work. I forgot to say keep in mind that it was dark and I had no tv. I figured out thatthe manuall move button worked fine but the other one did nothing. I kept pushing until the soft squishy button fell in. I thought "great" here it goes. I then proceeded to get a semi sharp object to push the button, at night on the roof. So I poke around and what I thought was button moves, I would later realize that this was not a button but the green led. I know its stupid but a real man has to be able to admit to his mistakes. I then determine that the "button" must have fallen in the housing and the quickest fix would be to get a uni-bit and drill a hole to get to it. Now before you call me completely stupid at least I did not try to win a darwin award!
I sucessfully drilled the hole and started going "fishing" again with my semi-sharp metal object. I cannot find the reset "button" that fell in any wheres. No wires no nothing. This was the last chance, I got down from the roof and tryed to move the motor and nothing. Nedeless to say I'm going for broke now. Back up on the roof and poking around with semi-sharp object and finally, I saw the green led go to orange!! I MUST have hit the rest button, but wait it did not flash. Hummmmmm. Lets do it again. Oh OOOOO, no more Led, no green light much less orange. I slowely reach up and press the manual button and nothing, shes gone, walking through the valley in the shadow of death gone.
Fast forward a couple of days and Gabshere saves me. I was not able to use any of the tube, brackets or anything from my old set up. His was totally different. So I went through the steps of setting up the motor from scratch. This time I was set up and ready to go in 1 hr or so. So back off the roof and to the viewsat, and NOTHING, What? It caint be say it aint so, tonight is retro night! Back on the roof everything looks right, then back down> I recheck all of my settings everytihng is entered ion correctly. After some serious thunkin I decided to drive it to 97 manually it worked with the "installer" function but not the USALS, now I getting that sinking feeling like I was an idiot. I tune it to 97 and hit save location and I try another one amc4 and do the same thing. Then all of a sudden the usals function starts working, now it will automaticly move the sat when I change channels, amazing. The conclusion? Well if works now but I have to manually drive the motor to each spot and then save it for the usals to work. Before anyone chimes in, I was hell bent and determine not to loose my channel list. I have spent months scanning and believe it or not I seldom have to re scan to get most of the feeds that I looking for. Such as the pro XXXX that was up yesterday, I did not have to do a blind scan to find it as I alread had those tps entered in. So was this it? A corrupted sat file? Or what else. I have since went and turned "off" all of the usals setting on both of my bedroom boxes so that I do not have that problem again. I will only use them to "watch" instead of move from now on. Is this what you call slaving? What does the "go to reference" really do? Any help at all in understand what happened would be appreciated. And it more than ok to poke a little fun while your at it, thanks to Gabshere I look back and laugh at myself and thats cool, we all have to do that at some time.
I forgot to add that the "reset" button is a pin hole on both motors. You need a paper clip or something to push it. Had I known that none of this might not have happened the way it did. There is a small hole next to the green light to insert the clip into. Another thanks to Gabshere for that tip.
:And not to mention Stogie, the not far second runner up who was also more than willing to help me. Thanks to both of you.
I crashed my motor by trying to move it with a pansat 2500 and a 2300. I had the motor pointed at amc4 and both of the other TV's were working The trouble happened when I tryed to move the dish with the 2500. I think the main reason is both of the pansat remotes are very slow and cumbersome. You sometimes have to hit a button you want several times to get the box to reconize what you want to do. Some how I must have hit go to reference or something( and by the way what does that really mean?) Anywaythe digi=power sg2100 must have gotten confused and it got suck. I had a green light but all 3 boxes would not move it. This is where the trouble started and I think You can easily tell what I did wrong from this point on. First I decided that I needed a reset, I read up and it said that I had to push and hold both buttons to reset the motor, easy enough right ? Well up to the roof and low and behold pushing the buttons did not work. I forgot to say keep in mind that it was dark and I had no tv. I figured out thatthe manuall move button worked fine but the other one did nothing. I kept pushing until the soft squishy button fell in. I thought "great" here it goes. I then proceeded to get a semi sharp object to push the button, at night on the roof. So I poke around and what I thought was button moves, I would later realize that this was not a button but the green led. I know its stupid but a real man has to be able to admit to his mistakes. I then determine that the "button" must have fallen in the housing and the quickest fix would be to get a uni-bit and drill a hole to get to it. Now before you call me completely stupid at least I did not try to win a darwin award!
I sucessfully drilled the hole and started going "fishing" again with my semi-sharp metal object. I cannot find the reset "button" that fell in any wheres. No wires no nothing. This was the last chance, I got down from the roof and tryed to move the motor and nothing. Nedeless to say I'm going for broke now. Back up on the roof and poking around with semi-sharp object and finally, I saw the green led go to orange!! I MUST have hit the rest button, but wait it did not flash. Hummmmmm. Lets do it again. Oh OOOOO, no more Led, no green light much less orange. I slowely reach up and press the manual button and nothing, shes gone, walking through the valley in the shadow of death gone. Fast forward a couple of days and Gabshere saves me. I was not able to use any of the tube, brackets or anything from my old set up. His was totally different. So I went through the steps of setting up the motor from scratch. This time I was set up and ready to go in 1 hr or so. So back off the roof and to the viewsat, and NOTHING, What? It caint be say it aint so, tonight is retro night! Back on the roof everything looks right, then back down> I recheck all of my settings everytihng is entered ion correctly. After some serious thunkin I decided to drive it to 97 manually it worked with the "installer" function but not the USALS, now I getting that sinking feeling like I was an idiot. I tune it to 97 and hit save location and I try another one amc4 and do the same thing. Then all of a sudden the usals function starts working, now it will automaticly move the sat when I change channels, amazing. The conclusion? Well if works now but I have to manually drive the motor to each spot and then save it for the usals to work. Before anyone chimes in, I was hell bent and determine not to loose my channel list. I have spent months scanning and believe it or not I seldom have to re scan to get most of the feeds that I looking for. Such as the pro XXXX that was up yesterday, I did not have to do a blind scan to find it as I alread had those tps entered in. So was this it? A corrupted sat file? Or what else. I have since went and turned "off" all of the usals setting on both of my bedroom boxes so that I do not have that problem again. I will only use them to "watch" instead of move from now on. Is this what you call slaving? What does the "go to reference" really do? Any help at all in understand what happened would be appreciated. And it more than ok to poke a little fun while your at it, thanks to Gabshere I look back and laugh at myself and thats cool, we all have to do that at some time.
I forgot to add that the "reset" button is a pin hole on both motors. You need a paper clip or something to push it. Had I known that none of this might not have happened the way it did. There is a small hole next to the green light to insert the clip into. Another thanks to Gabshere for that tip.
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Got to reference means go to zero. If you look at the bottom of the tube where it connects to the motor there is a pointer and scale, when you select go to reference in the receiver the motor should drive the dish to true south..your longitude, and the pointer should be on zero. It is a reference point, when setting up, put the receiver in Usals mode, with your longitude and latitude entered and it will make its calculations from that reference point and move to the satellite you have selected. There is no saving positions in Usals mode, it calculates it every time.
Glad you got things sorted out
How come you have your dish on your roof? That is got to be a killer....all that climbing
Glad you got things sorted out
How come you have your dish on your roof? That is got to be a killer....all that climbing
I believe you need to have the receiver in Usals mode to use go to reference, I could be wrong there but give that a try. It should move to zero. Usals is easier to use to setup a dish, you don't have to search for all the sats, just find one, get it tuned as well as you can and you should be close enough to do the fine tuning....moving motor east, west on the pole, increasing, decreasing elevation on the dish.
I figured you had los issues with your dish on your roof, it made me tired just reading about all the climbing you were doing in your post
I figured you had los issues with your dish on your roof, it made me tired just reading about all the climbing you were doing in your post
well we've all made mistakes working with something ( and i love electronics ) i'm sure ... my problem seems that i can get them apart pretty easily but when putting them back together sometimes they don't fit right or have a few extra parts lol lol
for broke motor if its not totally ruined you can work on it in the house a couple feet from the receiver ..... it just might not give you the led lights now. work the motor back to the zero position and then try the reset pinhole on the motor.
some other things to consider for both motors
some motors act strangely being swapped between different receivers. always return to zero position when swapping out and some you have to reset the motor ( this looks like the case if swapping between a VS & Pansat receiver). all of my swaps have been from a coolsat to a coolsat. On another safe side, save your channel list before swapping out motors and preform a reset on the motor & receiver then load the channel list back to the receiver.
where we talked about putting up your c-band dish would be an ok spot for a KU dish to look over your roof if mounted on a pole about 6 ft above ground. This would save you from having to climb up to the roof to play with the dish i know we all like to adjust the dish
for broke motor if its not totally ruined you can work on it in the house a couple feet from the receiver ..... it just might not give you the led lights now. work the motor back to the zero position and then try the reset pinhole on the motor.
some other things to consider for both motors
some motors act strangely being swapped between different receivers. always return to zero position when swapping out and some you have to reset the motor ( this looks like the case if swapping between a VS & Pansat receiver). all of my swaps have been from a coolsat to a coolsat. On another safe side, save your channel list before swapping out motors and preform a reset on the motor & receiver then load the channel list back to the receiver.
where we talked about putting up your c-band dish would be an ok spot for a KU dish to look over your roof if mounted on a pole about 6 ft above ground. This would save you from having to climb up to the roof to play with the dish
i know we all like to adjust the dish 
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Is ESPN News changing packages? I see on the lineup card that ESPN News is only available in Top 200 and above now. Is this accurate? Did anyone with Top 120 or 120+ lose ESPN News?
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Curious if you still have ESPN News on 142 right now with AT120 or AT120+. As of today, the Dish website no longer lists it on the public website for that package.
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So I have recently setup Indoor OTA due to drop to Local from Dish, and found out reason why I have such bad signal is my Monitor now none of cable for my monitor near OTA or it cable going to TV, but the TV right above my Monitor maybe not even a foot.
If i have 3 to 2 bars with monitor off said channel for most part of perfectly watchable, but as soon my monitor is ON (show image of desktop or what ever) OTA going to TV halved that 3 to 2 bars become 1 and 2 if I lucky and channels start scrambling alot, and depending on what is being shown on monitor it might out right give no signal, and I can easily restore singal to being bad if change what show on monitor or bring back 3 to 2 bars if I turn monitor off or let it to to standby mode.
I have already disconnect every cable on TV except the OTA cable leaving just that so it not those cable. the Power cable for monitor and DP to DVI cable the monitor is using no where near that OTA cable either.
Any idea on how to fix this? moving my monitor isnt exactly an option neither is moving the tv and moving the OTA to other side room even with long cable dont fix this issue.
I have one those Leaf MoHu antennas 11x3 ones, I had same issue with one gateway mohu antennas the older one too
If i have 3 to 2 bars with monitor off said channel for most part of perfectly watchable, but as soon my monitor is ON (show image of desktop or what ever) OTA going to TV halved that 3 to 2 bars become 1 and 2 if I lucky and channels start scrambling alot, and depending on what is being shown on monitor it might out right give no signal, and I can easily restore singal to being bad if change what show on monitor or bring back 3 to 2 bars if I turn monitor off or let it to to standby mode.
I have already disconnect every cable on TV except the OTA cable leaving just that so it not those cable. the Power cable for monitor and DP to DVI cable the monitor is using no where near that OTA cable either.
Any idea on how to fix this? moving my monitor isnt exactly an option neither is moving the tv and moving the OTA to other side room even with long cable dont fix this issue.
I have one those Leaf MoHu antennas 11x3 ones, I had same issue with one gateway mohu antennas the older one too
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Do you have any splitters or combiners in between the antenna and TV? That can cause issues, especially indoors.
I would get that antenna into the attic or outside if at all possible.
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I would get that antenna into the attic or outside if at all possible.
And we need your Rabbitears reception report to really be able to provide answers specific to your location-
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I get I just need to short out the monitor from kill the signal to the tv cause the monitor being on and show image basically castrates signal
I just moved wires around moved power cord away data cord and what not, and some made this issue worse just have my monitor on and show image was enough to just kill signal, I went and moved monitors data cable DP to DVI cable and it came back even if was still spotty at best, now I think it DP to DVI cable I using considering moving seem maninpulate how bad the signal that cable is still no where near OTA cable or any cables going to the tv, the tv and monitor are on the same surge protector though
no spilter is just for my tvDo you have any splitters or combiners in between the antenna and TV? That can cause issues, especially indoors.
I would get that antenna into the attic or outside if at all possible.
And we need your Rabbitears reception report to really be able to provide answers specific to your location-
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I get I just need to short out the monitor from kill the signal to the tv cause the monitor being on and show image basically castrates signal
I just moved wires around moved power cord away data cord and what not, and some made this issue worse just have my monitor on and show image was enough to just kill signal, I went and moved monitors data cable DP to DVI cable and it came back even if was still spotty at best, now I think it DP to DVI cable I using considering moving seem maninpulate how bad the signal that cable is still no where near OTA cable or any cables going to the tv, the tv and monitor are on the same surge protector though
Well, it's grounded up to the Surge Protector anyways ... but if not 3rd prong, it's not grounded ... I don't recall if my TV's have a ground, guess I never thought about it ...
Now ya got me curious, I got to check.
Well, thats interesting, I thought all TV's were grounded ... guess not, maybe they figure if the voltage gets that far, its not going to save the TV ...
get rid of the monitor and plug the computer into the tv and use it as the monitor
New low power station has been granted by the FCC and the new call leter is K33OB-D on RF ch. 33.
Will run at 15 KW ERP, this one runs from the Westside same location as KWPL-LD a HC2 owned station.
It's going to be aimed at eastern part of Albuquerque, so it's tightly focused beam pattern.
This new station is owned by Digital Network and what kind of programmings is unkown at this time.
Will run at 15 KW ERP, this one runs from the Westside same location as KWPL-LD a HC2 owned station.
It's going to be aimed at eastern part of Albuquerque, so it's tightly focused beam pattern.
This new station is owned by Digital Network and what kind of programmings is unkown at this time.
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The 'get after it media' stations
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Like Heartland, Retro, rev'n, Action etc
probably the same programming they have been putting on their other owned stations.
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I was pretty satisfied by the Finale as well. So many multi-season shows come up short, but this one was well done. The whole season has had a pretty high body count (including some of the executive producers
) so the tombstone seemed quite appropriate.
Hopefully the Gen V show sticks around a few more seasons.
) so the tombstone seemed quite appropriate.Hopefully the Gen V show sticks around a few more seasons.
I was pretty satisfied by the Finale as well. So many multi-season shows come up short, but this one was well done. The whole season has had a pretty high body count (including some of the executive producers
Hopefully the Gen V show sticks around a few more seasons.
Gen V was cancelled already. The story of The Boys is over, it's on to the prequel now.
All that buildup in their series and they were called useless, retconned and sidelined in the finale.
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So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
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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.
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Over the past year I have been tracking the changes on Western Arc. The past 3 months have had a lot of changes that I posted in the other MPEG2 Western Arc shutdown thread. Now that 129 is (basically) out of commission, here is where Western Arc stands. This is just a national channel list, (no local channels) based off what I can see and what others have contributed. Thanks to everyone who has helped me come up with the locations of some of the channels – I would try and list all of you out, but I know I would forget someone! As has been suggested in other parts of the forum, it would be great to collect the spotbeam data for those who could contribute!
A couple of pieces of info:
When I talk about number of channels on a transponder, all my numbers are unique channels – for example, channel 101 and 199 are the same channel mapped to two different numbers, but in terms of space, only takes up 1 channel worth of bandwidth on the transponder.
Finally, I have to give Dish a ton of credit. When it was 110/119/129, Dish had 82 transponders they were using – it took a lot to get it down to 50 transponders and figure out where all the pieces were going to go. What are the things they did to get there? Here are the things I saw:
A couple of pieces of info:
- Out of the 64 transponders between 110/119, there are currently 50 transponders that Dish is licensed to use. 22 are Spotbeams, 28 are ConUS transponders (14 transponders are licensed to DirecTV and Dish doesn't have access to them)
- Those 28 ConUS transponders are divided as follows:
- 10 are dedicated to National HD channels (ESPN, CNN, Disney Channel, etc). Dish is maxing out at 16 HD channels per transponder (note – in an earlier post I said there was one transponder with 17 HD channels, that was an error on my part. When I double checked my listings, one channel changed transponders). Before the transition, there was a maximum of 14 HD channels per transponder.
- 1 transponder is dedicated to adult content
- 2 are a mixture HD PPV Movies/4k channels
- 3 are set aside for HD Sports channels that are only on for live games (NBA League Pass, the PAC 12 alternate channels, some PPV events, etc); 3 SD PPV Sports Channels are there as well.
- 7 are for SD and/or music channels. Dish is maxing out at 26 SD channels per transponder thus far on the SD transponders.
- 5 transponders on 110 I have no channels listed but Dish operates. (they are labeled as ConUS on my chart below) There are other things that could be on those transponders, like RV Distant Networks, internal testing channels, etc, that I can't see. They might be able to be used for additional content, but I am not sure exactly what is on those transponders.
When I talk about number of channels on a transponder, all my numbers are unique channels – for example, channel 101 and 199 are the same channel mapped to two different numbers, but in terms of space, only takes up 1 channel worth of bandwidth on the transponder.
Finally, I have to give Dish a ton of credit. When it was 110/119/129, Dish had 82 transponders they were using – it took a lot to get it down to 50 transponders and figure out where all the pieces were going to go. What are the things they did to get there? Here are the things I saw:
- During this migration from 129, Dish converted 7 ConUS transponders on 119 into Spotbeams – that is how they ended up fitting on all the HD locals that used to be on 129. (for those interested, TP 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 are the ones that used to be ConUS on 119 that are now Spotbeam)
- Removed almost all SD duplicate channels that are offered in HD
- Converted remaining SD channels from MPEG2 to MPEG4
- There are also 2 subtle things that changed from the HD channel perspective
- At the beginning of the transition, Dish decreased the number of PPV Movie channels – prior to this transition the PPV channels HD PPV movies were 502-522; now they are 502-517.
- At the beginning of April when MLB, NBA, and NHL regular seasons were all going on at the same time and this transition began, there were a ton of games "joined in progress" for the HD feeds. That wasn't common since the days before the full time HD RSN's. The reason for that was prior to the transition, Dish had 4 transponders set aside for HD Sports – 2 transponders was the bandwidth set aside from the HD RSN's before Dish dropped the RSN's, then 2 transponders were for alternate channels. Now we are down to 3 transponders for HD sports.
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