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Ok. First things first.
I do not know what I am doing. I am in way over my head.
I have gotten by by copying what I see you guys do but with no real understanding of how it works.
I have picked up on a good deal of the lingo and I have bumbled my way through a few SIMPLE things that any of you guys could do with your eyes closed.
But the bottom line is, I don't understand most of this stuff and probably never will.
That's the truth of it.
That said, moving on..
My dad made a thing to adapt the little Primerstar dish to the ku motor he bought for me MONTHS ago that has sat in the box ever since.
He took a hinge from a fence gate and attached it to a flat piece of aluminum. He made a metal band to wrap around the motor tube. But it can't really be tightened up super tight. It's pretty snug but the tube slips plenty enough to be a serious problem. So what he told me to do is put a "drill screw" through the band he made and through the motor tube in two places once I have the dish aimed the right way. He gave me a handful of little screw bolt things that have drill tips on them and screw threads too. He also gave me a tool to put in a drill for for drilling them into the tube and he showed me how to do it. Looks pretty easy, I did a few practice ones and it's within my ability to do that.
I put some pictures of the thing he made for me in the attachments. So to help you figure out what the fence part looks like I held up the other half of it in one picture. It was a hinge. Half goes around a big fence pole and the other half goes on the frame, so I a told. I didn't see the thing before he took it to pieces.
I just gave my dad the motor and showed him pictures of how motors look when they are attached to dishes, he looked at my dish then messed with it a few weeks and came up with this.
I think it will work. Well, I *hope* it will work. I have no idea if this is right or not. Knowing my luck, probably not. If this doesn't work then I'm out of luck. I have a serious fear that I'm going to have to end up buying MORE STUFF. Like a dish that is made to be on a motor.
Also, I have come to the conclusion that I need to put in all new wires.
Goofus put the wire underground in a pipe.
I went to Houston and bought a flippin heavy roll of wire that should work for the video and to control the motors of the Cband dishes.
It is "Siamese RG-6Q with cat-5e". I went to an electronics store and told them what I am wanting to do and he suggested this stuff. I looked the stuff up on their website and they have a pdf about the wire so I put that in here in the attachment too. I'm sure you guys could look at it and tell me if this stuff will really work. The guy promised me it would.
Please tell me this wire will work!
He also sold me 50 connectors for making the ends.
A few months ago I bought tools for making the ends and some cheap connectors, watched a few youtube videos and then through trial and a LOT of error, learned to put the ends on myself. I still mess up because I have trouble setting the tool properly and I mash them where they are ruined and I have to cut them off and try again. But I'll get the hang of it..
Anyway..
I have also come to the conclusion that I will have to have several wires run from the house out to the dishes. The gbox thing plug into 110 and it's obviously an indoors only thing.
So I have to have a 2 wires, one for each Cband dish. I only have one gbox on order as of now. I'll worry about the second one later. I still have to buy proper lnbs for the cbands. Grrrrr! Always more stuff!
Then there is a wire to run for the ku dishes.
So that's three wires from the house to the dishes. I'm guessing that will be like 75 feet each wire. Is that too long or is that ok?
The guy at the store told me to tie a line to the old wire and pull the old wire out. As I pull the old wire out I will pull string through the underground pipe and then I tie the string to the new wires and pull them through the pipe. He also sold me a spool of yellow nylon string, he says it's for pulling wires through pipes. I just hope it doesn't break!
It seems pretty strong, I can't break it. But I haven't tried it for real. I have such wonderful luck you know. Maybe I should pull three strings through the pipe just to be safe.
Oh yes, the guy told me to put the roll in a milk crate and put a stick through it so it will unroll easy. He was right, it fits perfectly and unrolls a bit too easy!
Ok. So now the mysterious part. How the heck to do it..
I assume, from reading old posts, that I need to run a short wire from the pc tuner to this little Ecoda switch.
From the ecoda switch I need to run a short wire to the gbox (don't have it yet) then a loooong wire out to the cband dish (it's still not put up yet.)
On the other side of the little ecoda switch I run a loooong wire out to the ku dishes.
From what I have been told but still can't understand, I hook the ku wire to the motor FIRST, then hook a wire from the motor to the 8way switch that's out there now. Then I hook all the ku dishes into the 8way switch, including the lnb from the motorized dish.
Right?
If that's correct, how the heck does it work? This is where my brain goes into meltdown mode trying to figure out how the pc will control all this Rube Goldberged up stuff.
It's one thing to duplicate physical things that I can see in pictures but programming the stuff to work, that's where I fall flat on my face.
For now, because I am still a good ways off from having a working Cband system I will just not worry about it for now and focus, for now, on making the ku and motorized ku dish work.
Maybe you guys can look this over and divert me from any monumental disasters before I get too deep into this.
Thank you!
I do not know what I am doing. I am in way over my head.
I have gotten by by copying what I see you guys do but with no real understanding of how it works.
I have picked up on a good deal of the lingo and I have bumbled my way through a few SIMPLE things that any of you guys could do with your eyes closed.
But the bottom line is, I don't understand most of this stuff and probably never will.
That's the truth of it.
That said, moving on..
My dad made a thing to adapt the little Primerstar dish to the ku motor he bought for me MONTHS ago that has sat in the box ever since.
He took a hinge from a fence gate and attached it to a flat piece of aluminum. He made a metal band to wrap around the motor tube. But it can't really be tightened up super tight. It's pretty snug but the tube slips plenty enough to be a serious problem. So what he told me to do is put a "drill screw" through the band he made and through the motor tube in two places once I have the dish aimed the right way. He gave me a handful of little screw bolt things that have drill tips on them and screw threads too. He also gave me a tool to put in a drill for for drilling them into the tube and he showed me how to do it. Looks pretty easy, I did a few practice ones and it's within my ability to do that.
I put some pictures of the thing he made for me in the attachments. So to help you figure out what the fence part looks like I held up the other half of it in one picture. It was a hinge. Half goes around a big fence pole and the other half goes on the frame, so I a told. I didn't see the thing before he took it to pieces.
I just gave my dad the motor and showed him pictures of how motors look when they are attached to dishes, he looked at my dish then messed with it a few weeks and came up with this.
I think it will work. Well, I *hope* it will work. I have no idea if this is right or not. Knowing my luck, probably not. If this doesn't work then I'm out of luck. I have a serious fear that I'm going to have to end up buying MORE STUFF. Like a dish that is made to be on a motor.
Also, I have come to the conclusion that I need to put in all new wires.
Goofus put the wire underground in a pipe.
I went to Houston and bought a flippin heavy roll of wire that should work for the video and to control the motors of the Cband dishes.
It is "Siamese RG-6Q with cat-5e". I went to an electronics store and told them what I am wanting to do and he suggested this stuff. I looked the stuff up on their website and they have a pdf about the wire so I put that in here in the attachment too. I'm sure you guys could look at it and tell me if this stuff will really work. The guy promised me it would.
Please tell me this wire will work!
He also sold me 50 connectors for making the ends.
A few months ago I bought tools for making the ends and some cheap connectors, watched a few youtube videos and then through trial and a LOT of error, learned to put the ends on myself. I still mess up because I have trouble setting the tool properly and I mash them where they are ruined and I have to cut them off and try again. But I'll get the hang of it..
Anyway..
I have also come to the conclusion that I will have to have several wires run from the house out to the dishes. The gbox thing plug into 110 and it's obviously an indoors only thing.
So I have to have a 2 wires, one for each Cband dish. I only have one gbox on order as of now. I'll worry about the second one later. I still have to buy proper lnbs for the cbands. Grrrrr! Always more stuff!
Then there is a wire to run for the ku dishes.
So that's three wires from the house to the dishes. I'm guessing that will be like 75 feet each wire. Is that too long or is that ok?
The guy at the store told me to tie a line to the old wire and pull the old wire out. As I pull the old wire out I will pull string through the underground pipe and then I tie the string to the new wires and pull them through the pipe. He also sold me a spool of yellow nylon string, he says it's for pulling wires through pipes. I just hope it doesn't break!
It seems pretty strong, I can't break it. But I haven't tried it for real. I have such wonderful luck you know. Maybe I should pull three strings through the pipe just to be safe.
Oh yes, the guy told me to put the roll in a milk crate and put a stick through it so it will unroll easy. He was right, it fits perfectly and unrolls a bit too easy!
Ok. So now the mysterious part. How the heck to do it..
I assume, from reading old posts, that I need to run a short wire from the pc tuner to this little Ecoda switch.
From the ecoda switch I need to run a short wire to the gbox (don't have it yet) then a loooong wire out to the cband dish (it's still not put up yet.)
On the other side of the little ecoda switch I run a loooong wire out to the ku dishes.
From what I have been told but still can't understand, I hook the ku wire to the motor FIRST, then hook a wire from the motor to the 8way switch that's out there now. Then I hook all the ku dishes into the 8way switch, including the lnb from the motorized dish.
Right?
If that's correct, how the heck does it work? This is where my brain goes into meltdown mode trying to figure out how the pc will control all this Rube Goldberged up stuff.
It's one thing to duplicate physical things that I can see in pictures but programming the stuff to work, that's where I fall flat on my face.
For now, because I am still a good ways off from having a working Cband system I will just not worry about it for now and focus, for now, on making the ku and motorized ku dish work.
Maybe you guys can look this over and divert me from any monumental disasters before I get too deep into this.
Thank you!
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I admire her stamina on this project and my hat is off to her. Isn't there somebody on this forum that lives close to her that could help her and maybe even have the proper dish laying around that they don't need and help her out of her frustration?
You are doing super and don't give up. I know what frustration is like and I've been in the field of communications ( technical ) for over 40 years but I am a stubborn kraut and I also don't give up. I'm not even a red head.
You are doing super and don't give up. I know what frustration is like and I've been in the field of communications ( technical ) for over 40 years but I am a stubborn kraut and I also don't give up. I'm not even a red head.
Well, I'm taking a few weeks off from it.
I'm having some simple exploratory surgery early next week and my doc is restricting me to "do nothing!" duty for a minimum of one week after. The rest of this week I'm trying to get my ducks in a row.
I guess I'll just have to relax and watch TV for a week or so until I'm done mending then give it a go again.
Maybe this break will give my dad some time to cook up something a little more polished than what he's come up with so far.
Then again I may just take a trip to Houston and try to find a store that sells satellite dishes.
Or just buy a new motor. I don't know but I have a few weeks to figure out what I'm going to do about this.
I will be around reading a LOT, I just can't do anything physical. Can't even drive or lift 5lbs.
But everything will be fine and I'll get back to this stuff and one way or the other, I'll find a way to put a motored dish up..
Thanks guys..
I'm having some simple exploratory surgery early next week and my doc is restricting me to "do nothing!" duty for a minimum of one week after. The rest of this week I'm trying to get my ducks in a row.
I guess I'll just have to relax and watch TV for a week or so until I'm done mending then give it a go again.
Maybe this break will give my dad some time to cook up something a little more polished than what he's come up with so far.
Then again I may just take a trip to Houston and try to find a store that sells satellite dishes.
Or just buy a new motor. I don't know but I have a few weeks to figure out what I'm going to do about this.
I will be around reading a LOT, I just can't do anything physical. Can't even drive or lift 5lbs.
But everything will be fine and I'll get back to this stuff and one way or the other, I'll find a way to put a motored dish up..
Thanks guys..
Good luck with the surgery, Dee! Looks like you'll have plenty of forum-reading time ...
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Since the Reds have there thread we should too!
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Hello everyone, new guy here. I'm trying to solve problem I'm having with Dish bonus view channels. When I'm watching the bonus view channels then I switch back to regular dish channels, after few minutes the screen flips to black and after 30 seconds flips back to regular channels and continues to flip back and forth until I turn off TV. After I wait 30 minutes and turn back on , I can use regular channels again. So, its after I switch from bonus view channels to regular dish channels the problem starts. Been trying to fix this for a month, but no luck
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
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Thanks to Fitch Ratings ( who gives the ratings on Credit and debt, as approved by the SEC, so they have accurate numbers) we have the totals.
DIRECTV's video subscriber base is the third-largest traditional multi-channel video programming distributor (MVPD) in the U.S. with about 8.2 million subscribers at the end of 1Q26.
The last time it was reported, it was 8.8M at the end of 2Q25, so only a 600,000 loss for 3 quarters, which is a major improvement, since for many years before that, it was losing 500,000 a quarter, 2 Million a year.
It is now losing less than Dish/Sling combined, I believe the Genre Packs are helping to retain and get subscribers.
DIRECTV's video subscriber base is the third-largest traditional multi-channel video programming distributor (MVPD) in the U.S. with about 8.2 million subscribers at the end of 1Q26.
The last time it was reported, it was 8.8M at the end of 2Q25, so only a 600,000 loss for 3 quarters, which is a major improvement, since for many years before that, it was losing 500,000 a quarter, 2 Million a year.
It is now losing less than Dish/Sling combined, I believe the Genre Packs are helping to retain and get subscribers.
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Recently came back to DirectTV Satellite service and have two boxes, Gemini and a main HR54.
DirecTV is charging me two "TV access fees" of $10 each, but can only watch TV on the one without the server. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
DirecTV is charging me two "TV access fees" of $10 each, but can only watch TV on the one without the server. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
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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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I feel like this was discussed in another thread, but I can't find it. I have T-Mobile and my last iPhone upgrade was in 2020. I want to get a new iPhone, but what is the best way to go about doing it? Should I order the iPhone from T-Mobile directly, or should I buy from the Apple Store? I feel like there are pros/cons to each option.
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I have a Hopper with Sling. (Don't know exact model.) A couple nights ago, I went into the DVR screen, and noted that it was recording three programs. Yet I was able to view live TV (that was not one of the channels being recorded.) Did something change? In the past, it would only let me watch one of the channels being recorded, or any recording in the DVR menu. Maybe it was streaming, although there was no indication of that?
Apologies if this has been covered; I searched and didn't find anything.
Thanks.
Apologies if this has been covered; I searched and didn't find anything.
Thanks.
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Time for another AWESOME video from iJustine!
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View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YJjxjYvmQ8s
Direct YouTube Link - Good Bye, Tim! Last WWDC
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
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WANTED DirecTV LCC
Anyone have a DirecTV Local Channel Connector that you'd like to get rid of at a reasonable price? DirecTV is currently in a contract dispute with owner of my local ABC affiliate.
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I did that. The response was that the LCC is not available. Escalated the issue to a tech support person with the same results.
Could be out of them I guess ... I'd keep trying, every 3-4 days.I did that. The response was that the LCC is not available. Escalated the issue to a tech support person with the same results.
If they are not out of them as them WHY you can't get one, seeing Your in a Dispute. Thats what they are for.
I would make them give you a real answer, don't let them off the hook.
I had one, and it worked well, but I believe I gave it to another D* friend (also had a AM21), I know I gave them away ...
According to the tech support guy, they don't have any in stock. He said I should receive an email when and if they have them. I even told him I would accept a refurbished unit.
I'm not sure your going to find any Refurbished ones as D* doesn't ask for them back.According to the tech support guy, they don't have any in stock. He said I should receive an email when and if they have them. I even told him I would accept a refurbished unit.
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Did anyone have a price increase today on their equipment? I own my VIP211k's, and they have been $5.00. My bill that I received last week shows the "add-ons" as being $5.00. However, I just logged into my Dish account, and my "add-ons" are now $10.00. Did the additional receivers go up by $5.00 recently?
As I mentioned, my last bill shows $5.00 and under the notes, nothing is mentioned about a price increase.
As I mentioned, my last bill shows $5.00 and under the notes, nothing is mentioned about a price increase.
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