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So who has been a E sub for the longest continious time?
I go back end of january 13 years. Having ditched TCI at that time and its constant were getting tv land in 2 years, for 5 years or some such. TCI cold sensitive noisey amp pushed me over the edge. they refused to send out a tech at nite, and denied my VCR recordings were their cable. they finally replaced the noisey amp a month later, after i cancelled I had them remove my cable service drop
I still remember the magic of sat tv, somehow I didnt believe it would work. and its top 36 or whatever package. the thrill of the original dishplayer, upgrading its hard drive, my wife was certain I would ruin it. the bugs of the dishplayer were unreal, but not as bad as the 721. nice box that never worked reliably. finally upgraded to 522s, not only was its hard drive larger but it just worked and was stable. then finally deciding to get 722K, and liking it so much I got a second and planning on dropping all phone lines decided to get a 3rd and final 722k, dedicating it to friends so they could use my slingbox. putting all on ethernet
then sadly the fee issue, but its been a fun ride.
was a dealer for awhile, attended the E6 launch as a VIP and met jim and charlie signed the launch banner. The day mike dugan called my home was thrilling. Mike Lehto a insider friend who cared for dbsforums issues. Harassing dan collins and winning that bet over the 500 dish upgrade for everyone. My friend and source 007 who was a great source and friend, and won that bet for me, he prepared the sl;ates for the chats
my leaking of mike dugans retirement a few days early
Caused the E PR office much grief, and Bill R accusing me of insider stock price manipulation
My slamming E for piss poor software cost me most of my sources, but E DESERVED IT!
Its been a lot of fun!
Did you know uncle mike D grew up in indiana PA near pttsburgh?
I go back end of january 13 years. Having ditched TCI at that time and its constant were getting tv land in 2 years, for 5 years or some such. TCI cold sensitive noisey amp pushed me over the edge. they refused to send out a tech at nite, and denied my VCR recordings were their cable. they finally replaced the noisey amp a month later, after i cancelled I had them remove my cable service drop
I still remember the magic of sat tv, somehow I didnt believe it would work. and its top 36 or whatever package. the thrill of the original dishplayer, upgrading its hard drive, my wife was certain I would ruin it. the bugs of the dishplayer were unreal, but not as bad as the 721. nice box that never worked reliably. finally upgraded to 522s, not only was its hard drive larger but it just worked and was stable. then finally deciding to get 722K, and liking it so much I got a second
and planning on dropping all phone lines decided to get a 3rd and final 722k, dedicating it to friends so they could use my slingbox. putting all on ethernetthen sadly the fee issue, but its been a fun ride.
was a dealer for awhile, attended the E6 launch as a VIP and met jim and charlie
signed the launch banner. The day mike dugan called my home was thrilling. Mike Lehto a insider friend who cared for dbsforums issues. Harassing dan collins and winning that bet over the 500 dish upgrade for everyone. My friend and source 007 who was a great source and friend, and won that bet for me, he prepared the sl;ates for the chatsmy leaking of mike dugans retirement a few days early
Caused the E PR office much grief, and Bill R accusing me of insider stock price manipulationMy slamming E for piss poor software cost me most of my sources, but E DESERVED IT!
Its been a lot of fun!
Did you know uncle mike D grew up in indiana PA near pttsburgh?
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I started with Direct in the early 90's and Wasn't to impressed. Anything with a lot of dark colors was almost unwatchable. So when I heard about Echostar on the net, I was all over it.
I preordered my first receiver from some company in Wisconsin? About 6 months later I got the receiver and a fairly good size dish. I think the dish was about 32 inches wide. It came with all the cables, but it had just one problem. The only channel that came in was channel 100. The others hadn't even been turned on.
So I played with it every now and then and then one day I found a mailing list group of people like me who had the equipment but nothing to watch.
Every so often someone would be scanning thru the channels and find a broadcast and alert everyone on the list of its number and what it was. Most of the time it was Walmart meetings or retailer broadcast from echostar, but every once in a while we would catch a feed from either ABC, NBC or CBS.
It was more like a hobby than anything else.
Then one day someone on the list came across a group that had made a small box that constantly scanned all the channels for a signal.
Then it got even more fun because we were finding all kinds of broadcast. Everything from military communications to porn.
In late 95 and early 96 stations started to come on at random and stay on. very soon after that the "you are not subscribed to this channel" messages started to appear.
Then, I think it was around May or June of 96 a message appeared with an 800 number to call and subscribe to programing.
At first the picture quality was super great, but then as they kept adding more stations the image quality started to suffer. But it was still much better than Directs picture.
In 98 I dropped Direct all together and went only with Dish, thats when they started to have pretty much equal programing.
In the beginning most experts stayed away from Dish/ Echostar because they figured the company would be bankrupt before they ever got off the ground.
At the time two other sat start-ups had just went under. Both of those companies were subsidiaries of the big aerospace firms and eventually most of the satellites were leased or sold to dish and direct.
Over the years I have bounced between dish and direct, but I have always preferred dish. Only things made me switch to Direct was huge amounts of free programing.
So thats my story.
The dates may be off a bit, memory sucks. I am the guy that can't remember what the buttons on my remote do
I preordered my first receiver from some company in Wisconsin? About 6 months later I got the receiver and a fairly good size dish. I think the dish was about 32 inches wide. It came with all the cables, but it had just one problem. The only channel that came in was channel 100. The others hadn't even been turned on.
So I played with it every now and then and then one day I found a mailing list group of people like me who had the equipment but nothing to watch.
Every so often someone would be scanning thru the channels and find a broadcast and alert everyone on the list of its number and what it was. Most of the time it was Walmart meetings or retailer broadcast from echostar, but every once in a while we would catch a feed from either ABC, NBC or CBS.
It was more like a hobby than anything else.
Then one day someone on the list came across a group that had made a small box that constantly scanned all the channels for a signal.
Then it got even more fun because we were finding all kinds of broadcast. Everything from military communications to porn.
In late 95 and early 96 stations started to come on at random and stay on. very soon after that the "you are not subscribed to this channel" messages started to appear.
Then, I think it was around May or June of 96 a message appeared with an 800 number to call and subscribe to programing.
At first the picture quality was super great, but then as they kept adding more stations the image quality started to suffer. But it was still much better than Directs picture.
In 98 I dropped Direct all together and went only with Dish, thats when they started to have pretty much equal programing.
In the beginning most experts stayed away from Dish/ Echostar because they figured the company would be bankrupt before they ever got off the ground.
At the time two other sat start-ups had just went under. Both of those companies were subsidiaries of the big aerospace firms and eventually most of the satellites were leased or sold to dish and direct.
Over the years I have bounced between dish and direct, but I have always preferred dish. Only things made me switch to Direct was huge amounts of free programing.
So thats my story.
The dates may be off a bit, memory sucks. I am the guy that can't remember what the buttons on my remote do
I'm sorry I am sounding like a broken record here but I have to repeat and add to my previous posts:
Dish Network did not have a satellite in the sky until December 28 1995. It wasn't in geo orbit until mid January 1996.
Until the launch of Dish Network Echostar was STRICTLY AN EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANY.
Hughs launched their satellite December 1993. It wasn't in geo orbit until about Jan 1 1994.
DirecTV/USSB became available June 17, 1994. This company NEVER broadcast any signals before this time on any other satellite.
NO ONE was receiving Dish Network (legitamately or not--no matter what dish or receiver they owned) before Jan. 1996.
NO ONE was receiving DirecTV until (Legitamately or not-no matter what dish or receiver they owned) before Jan. 1994.
NO ONE was receiving PrimeStar before 1991 (Analog) 1994 (Digital) - or after 1999 no matter how big a dish or advanced the receiver.
NO ONE was receiving Alphastar before 1995 or after August 1997.
NO ONE ever received a signal from "Sky Cable" or "Sky Pix" since both companies folded before they broadcast a single pixel of programming.
NO ONE was receiving any regular TV broadcasts via satellite until 1975
NO ONE had any kind of satellite reception before 1963 - The first telecommunications satellite.
No one can receive what wasn't there.
Dish Network did not have a satellite in the sky until December 28 1995. It wasn't in geo orbit until mid January 1996.
Until the launch of Dish Network Echostar was STRICTLY AN EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANY.
Hughs launched their satellite December 1993. It wasn't in geo orbit until about Jan 1 1994.
DirecTV/USSB became available June 17, 1994. This company NEVER broadcast any signals before this time on any other satellite.
NO ONE was receiving Dish Network (legitamately or not--no matter what dish or receiver they owned) before Jan. 1996.
NO ONE was receiving DirecTV until (Legitamately or not-no matter what dish or receiver they owned) before Jan. 1994.
NO ONE was receiving PrimeStar before 1991 (Analog) 1994 (Digital) - or after 1999 no matter how big a dish or advanced the receiver.
NO ONE was receiving Alphastar before 1995 or after August 1997.
NO ONE ever received a signal from "Sky Cable" or "Sky Pix" since both companies folded before they broadcast a single pixel of programming.
NO ONE was receiving any regular TV broadcasts via satellite until 1975
NO ONE had any kind of satellite reception before 1963 - The first telecommunications satellite.
No one can receive what wasn't there.
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No idea what improvements might be involved.
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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.
Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
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Breakfast Quesadillas. Grilled flour tortilla filled with scrambled eggs, hash browns, chopped green chile, cheddar & Jack cheese and bacon. Coffee.
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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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We were up in Pigeon Forge, TN a month ago and we couldn't get anything on our phones to work on mobile data...the Ookla speed test app couldn't even do a speed test. I have an older 13 and went into my settings and turned off the 5G, making it use LTE exclusively....did a speed test of over 300mbps so obviously the 5G bands were overwhelmed. Anyway, tried to do the same thing on my Wife's 15 and the cellular data options tab simply wasn't there. Any of you run into this? We've on Verizon
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Apparently I'm not a big enough nerd
since I did not read every Marvel Comic Book ever published. If I had, I might be comparing the comics' version of events compared to what's transpiring in "Visionquest". So, I am enjoying the series a lot, not weighed down by previous expectations, knowing only the Avengers MCU movies and the "Wandavision" / "Agatha All Along" TV series.
I found the Mr Know-it-All channel from his discussion about "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" and he's been gleefully picking these episodes apart, referencing the Marvel comics from the 1939 on. Turns out A.I. has been around since before World War II, at least in the comics. (Robots before that, yes, yes.) This show is going back into the archives.
since I did not read every Marvel Comic Book ever published. If I had, I might be comparing the comics' version of events compared to what's transpiring in "Visionquest". So, I am enjoying the series a lot, not weighed down by previous expectations, knowing only the Avengers MCU movies and the "Wandavision" / "Agatha All Along" TV series.I found the Mr Know-it-All channel from his discussion about "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" and he's been gleefully picking these episodes apart, referencing the Marvel comics from the 1939 on. Turns out A.I. has been around since before World War II, at least in the comics. (Robots before that, yes, yes.) This show is going back into the archives.
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It's time for my wife to get a new iphone as her iphone 12 is getting weak battery life test says 70% compared to when new. But it is beginning to show signs of screen freezing as well.
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BTW, iOS 26.3 is now out for iPhone, along with the OS 26.3 updates for all other supported Appley iDevices.
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Time for another AWESOME video from iJustine!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CjVbq6h2VZw
Direct YouTube Link - The new PROLED MacBook Pro has a Dynamic Island
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CjVbq6h2VZw
Direct YouTube Link - The new PROLED MacBook Pro has a Dynamic Island
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
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iJustine
Time for another AWESOME video from iJustine!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ux8oQzvijl4
Direct YouTube Link - New PROLED MacBook Pro!
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ux8oQzvijl4
Direct YouTube Link - New PROLED MacBook Pro!
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
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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.
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Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MT4ptWNv2E
Direct YouTube Link - Windows Weekly 1007
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MT4ptWNv2E
Direct YouTube Link - Windows Weekly 1007
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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