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Hey everyone. I just spent the day fighting with a 1000.4 Eastern Arc dish and my Vip 211k receiver. I have tried everything to get this aligned and have failed every attempt. I have set up older SD dishes over the past 10 years without problems, and spent 2 years being a nomad where I had to set up a dish daily when we camped across america.
The Vip211k never shows any signal, when I 'test switch' I see the 1k4 dish and have no signal for any of the satellites. No problem, I haven't aligned it. so I go out to the install, hook up my trusty analog meter, put tinfoil over 61.5 and 77 and try to align... nothing. I have the receiver looking at 72 and transponder 21 which SHOULD be trying to use the center LNB. problem is I cant even get a noise reading from my cheapie analog meter if I cover the 77 LNB. it's as if the dish reciever is telling it to use the first LNB only when I choose the 72 sattelite.
What am I doing wrong? are these dishes 900X harder to point than a old Dish 500? are the gauges stamped in the 1000.4 really far off and should be ignored like some of the junk 300 dishes that had the Elevation gauge wrong?
Any help would be great! I have been fighting with this for 8 hours today.
And yes the receiver works. I took it to a friend that has a eastern arc setup and hooked it up and it works perfect, but noticed that this receiver takes from 1-5 minutes to show ANY signal reception change on the 6-1-1 menu function. I really hope this dish is not this hard to do all the time as I was hoping to use it like the old one for camping.
The Vip211k never shows any signal, when I 'test switch' I see the 1k4 dish and have no signal for any of the satellites. No problem, I haven't aligned it. so I go out to the install, hook up my trusty analog meter, put tinfoil over 61.5 and 77 and try to align... nothing. I have the receiver looking at 72 and transponder 21 which SHOULD be trying to use the center LNB. problem is I cant even get a noise reading from my cheapie analog meter if I cover the 77 LNB. it's as if the dish reciever is telling it to use the first LNB only when I choose the 72 sattelite.
What am I doing wrong? are these dishes 900X harder to point than a old Dish 500? are the gauges stamped in the 1000.4 really far off and should be ignored like some of the junk 300 dishes that had the Elevation gauge wrong?
Any help would be great! I have been fighting with this for 8 hours today.
And yes the receiver works. I took it to a friend that has a eastern arc setup and hooked it up and it works perfect, but noticed that this receiver takes from 1-5 minutes to show ANY signal reception change on the 6-1-1 menu function. I really hope this dish is not this hard to do all the time as I was hoping to use it like the old one for camping.
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Ok, I am having trouble self installing...
I have the 1000.4 EA ("Turbo HD"), vip211k, and one RG6 cable directly between the dish and receiver. I followed the instructions in the above post using the receiver to peak it (baby video monitor on the tv), EXCEPT I used port #1 instead. I could never find 72 using port #2...
Now, here is my problem. I got it locked on 72 using the 6-1-1 dishfinder screen (~50 with a green bar), then when I did check switch, I get the following:
Which to me seems like the 77 (#1) LNB is picking up the 72 sat, and the other 2 LNBs are not picking up anything. I confirmed this by putting foil over the 77 LNB and signal dropped to 0.
So, it seems like I need to shift it to the right 4-5 degrees, so the 72 LNB will line up with 72 sat. But, I can never find it...
I have done the check switch with nothing connected to clear the memory, etc. I am just stumped on how to get this thing connected! Could it be a bad LNBF, receiver? They are both from craigslist, but were supposedly working fine.
Thanks for the help.
I have the 1000.4 EA ("Turbo HD"), vip211k, and one RG6 cable directly between the dish and receiver. I followed the instructions in the above post using the receiver to peak it (baby video monitor on the tv), EXCEPT I used port #1 instead. I could never find 72 using port #2...
Now, here is my problem. I got it locked on 72 using the 6-1-1 dishfinder screen (~50 with a green bar), then when I did check switch, I get the following:
Which to me seems like the 77 (#1) LNB is picking up the 72 sat, and the other 2 LNBs are not picking up anything. I confirmed this by putting foil over the 77 LNB and signal dropped to 0.
So, it seems like I need to shift it to the right 4-5 degrees, so the 72 LNB will line up with 72 sat. But, I can never find it...
I have done the check switch with nothing connected to clear the memory, etc. I am just stumped on how to get this thing connected! Could it be a bad LNBF, receiver? They are both from craigslist, but were supposedly working fine.
Thanks for the help.
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Thanks 3Halo0DST.
I will give it another try when I get a chance. Thankfully 72.7 gives me 95% of the channels that I need...
I thought it should go to the right, not left. Is this not the correct way to think of it? Impressive drawing, I know.
I will give it another try when I get a chance. Thankfully 72.7 gives me 95% of the channels that I need...
I thought it should go to the right, not left. Is this not the correct way to think of it? Impressive drawing, I know.
idrive67elky said:
Yeah the drawing is correct. It is a tad confusing with the three LNBs however think of it this way: The LNB that is currently pointed at 72.7 is actually the 77 LNB, right? Check out the direction of the signal for the 77 LNB in it's proper configuration. The signal is "mirrored" in which (looking from behind the dish) even though the 77 sat is on the right, the signal bounces off of the dish and hits the left LNB. So when your 77 LNB is getting 72.7, you need to move the dish to the left in order to hit 77 even though 77 is actually to the right
. It's a little different than say, a single-LNB dish, or even aiming the center LNB on the 1000.4. To simplify things, follow some of the tips I gave in my previous post such as the foil trick, set the skew, adjust to the rough elevation and azimuth (dishpointer.com,) adjust azimuth until you get the 72.7 on the center LNB (may need to adjust elevation up/down 1-2 degrees to get a signal,) once you get a lock, fine tune using the elevation rod and azimuth cam. Skew shouldn't need to be adjusted at all once properly set as long as your mast is plumb. Plumb mast is important for the triple-LNB as otherwise you will run into skew-related issues.
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My OTA is not working anymore. This started after the latest update. I have the OTA dongle with a OTA antenna that I've been using for years. My hopper does not recognize the dongle anymore and when I go to the OTA setting, it has a screen that says to plug a dongle into the USB. I tried unplugging and plugging back, in the same usb port and other ports. The Hopper does not recognize it. Anyone have same issue?
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Did you people having this issue contact Brittany yet? Shes trying to keep track of things and it would be good for you to contact her as maybe she can get this somewhere and get fixed.
Now while unofficial, I am hearing this issue wasn't caused by DISH's software team, but was caused by a chipset driver update that seemes to have hosed some older USB devices. If this is indeed the case I can see why DISH didn't know and why they are slow in fixing it as they need the chipset company to fix its drivers and release them to DISH so they can be pushed out to all.
DISH does not hate you guys nor do they want you to buy new USB dongles. I am rather sure they didn't even know this was an issue until they saw it posted.
Again contact Brittany if you are having this issue, so she has your info and hopefully she can do something for you to keep you happy.
Now while unofficial, I am hearing this issue wasn't caused by DISH's software team, but was caused by a chipset driver update that seemes to have hosed some older USB devices. If this is indeed the case I can see why DISH didn't know and why they are slow in fixing it as they need the chipset company to fix its drivers and release them to DISH so they can be pushed out to all.
DISH does not hate you guys nor do they want you to buy new USB dongles. I am rather sure they didn't even know this was an issue until they saw it posted.
Again contact Brittany if you are having this issue, so she has your info and hopefully she can do something for you to keep you happy.
Thanks, but until they do, can't Dish just revert to the old driver that worked? Then test the new driver when delivered,d before pushing it again.Did you people having this issue contact Brittany yet? Shes trying to keep track of things and it would be good for you to contact her as maybe she can get this somewhere and get fixed.
Now while unofficial, I am hearing this issue wasn't caused by DISH's software team, but was caused by a chipset driver update that seemes to have hosed some older USB devices. If this is indeed the case I can see why DISH didn't know and why they are slow in fixing it as they need the chipset company to fix its drivers and release them to DISH so they can be pushed out to all.
DISH does not hate you guys nor do they want you to buy new USB dongles. I am rather sure they didn't even know this was an issue until they saw it posted.
Again contact Brittany if you are having this issue, so she has your info and hopefully she can do something for you to keep you happy.
But then what does an old CIO know! I've only reamed quite a few buttholes from my people that didn't do that!
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dish can't revert back to older drivers or updates. although just one reason not to buy the ota dongle!!!Thanks, but until they do, can't Dish just revert to the old driver that worked? Then test the new driver when delivered,d before pushing it again.
But then what does an old CIO know! I've only reamed quite a few buttholes from my people that didn't do that!
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I've been using APC UPS units to protect my computer and Home Theater equipment for many years, but now there are a number of companies producing "Glamping" power accessories that can provide hours of 120 VAC power for off-grid use at a camp site or a few hours of power when severe weather knock out the power. I had mentioned elsewhere that I picked up a Jackery HomePower 3000 to use instead of a gasoline generator to provide emergency power for our refrigerator. The 3.0 kWh of Lithium Iron Phosphate battery cells can supply power for over 24 hours and is "light" enough that I can move it into the kitchen to allow it to power the fridge. However, it's not an automatic operation, as I need to move it from its home in the closet to the kitchen, in addition to rolling the refrigerator out from its alcove so I can plug it in.
The Jackery wasn't my first LFP Power Bank; I had purchased an EcoFlow River 2 unit with 512 Wh of capacity. I had purchased this to use on our Home LAN to give it a longer run time than the three hours that I had with the APC UPS I had been using. This isn't an odd use case, EcoFlow advertises this capability on its website and a transfer time of 16 mS. I used this River 2 to supply power to a 16-port Cisco gigabit switch, the AT&T router, Printer Server, MoCA adapter, and surveillance camera NAS. All told, about 35 W of load. With the EcoFlow River 2, it reported approximately 12-13 hours of run time. So far, so good.
After it had been in use for a month or so, I was down in the basement and heard a whirling sound. Turns out the State of Charge was 24% and it appeared the River 2 was off-grid even though it was still plugged in. Well, turns out that the firmware had a big bug in it for people that were using it like I was. I communicated with EcoFlow and eventually they sent a newer firmware that fixed this problem. But before they fixed it, I decided that I had such a good experience with the Jackery, that I bought their Explorer 1000 (1,070 Wh capacity) which should run our home network for over a day. It worked great right out of the box, and even when it was charging, the cooling fan was practically silent.
After the River 2 was patched, I put it to work, replacing the APC UPS powering the bedroom TV with Dish 4K Joey and Apple TV. The LG OLED uses quite a lot more power than I expected, depending on the scene, it can have a 120 Watt power draw. With the River 2, that might limit power-out watching to 4-5 hours. Also, the River 2 still had the issue with its cooling fan, I find it disturbing the quiet bedroom environment.
EcoFlow had one of the Spring sales and have a new EcoFlow Delta 3 1000 Air which was on sale for $299. That's a 960 Wh capacity power bank with a 10 ms power switching, so this seemed like a perfect solution. Well, except for two things: 1) It has one grounded NEMA 5-15 receptacle; 2) even though EcoFlow claims "35 dB @ 1m" quietness, it was even louder that the River 2 was. Not optimal!
So, I ended up swapping the Jackery Explorer 1000 with the EcoFlow Delta 3 1000 Air since the power demands for the Home LAN are less, and the loud fan noise won't bother anyone. The bedroom TV setup says it should be good for approximately 7 hours:
I realize that at some point the amount of money spent on these individual long-term Power Backup solutions will be more expensive than if we just bought a whole-house power solution. Those are coming down in price, but we're still looking at $16,000 at a minimum for a LFP solution, and $10,000 or so for a home LP generator solution. (With the LP generator solution, we would need to also pay the Gas utility to increase the size of our gas line, so that tilts me towards a the battery solution.)
Finally, I tried an Amazon 12 VDC LFP battery that replaces the Lead Acid Gel Cell in a normal UPS with an equivalent set of LFP cells. The price was roughly the same as a 12 VDC battery from Batteries+, and it's been running for about a year now with no difficulty. But these APC UPS units won't run for long, and are really intended to allow the powered equipment to be shut down in an orderly manner.
So, am I weird to use these Camping power banks for Home emergency power solutions? I haven't even touched the idea of Solar panels to supplement the run time in an Outage.
After it had been in use for a month or so, I was down in the basement and heard a whirling sound. Turns out the State of Charge was 24% and it appeared the River 2 was off-grid even though it was still plugged in. Well, turns out that the firmware had a big bug in it for people that were using it like I was. I communicated with EcoFlow and eventually they sent a newer firmware that fixed this problem. But before they fixed it, I decided that I had such a good experience with the Jackery, that I bought their Explorer 1000 (1,070 Wh capacity) which should run our home network for over a day. It worked great right out of the box, and even when it was charging, the cooling fan was practically silent.
After the River 2 was patched, I put it to work, replacing the APC UPS powering the bedroom TV with Dish 4K Joey and Apple TV. The LG OLED uses quite a lot more power than I expected, depending on the scene, it can have a 120 Watt power draw. With the River 2, that might limit power-out watching to 4-5 hours. Also, the River 2 still had the issue with its cooling fan, I find it disturbing the quiet bedroom environment.
EcoFlow had one of the Spring sales and have a new EcoFlow Delta 3 1000 Air which was on sale for $299. That's a 960 Wh capacity power bank with a 10 ms power switching, so this seemed like a perfect solution. Well, except for two things: 1) It has one grounded NEMA 5-15 receptacle; 2) even though EcoFlow claims "35 dB @ 1m" quietness, it was even louder that the River 2 was. Not optimal!
So, I ended up swapping the Jackery Explorer 1000 with the EcoFlow Delta 3 1000 Air since the power demands for the Home LAN are less, and the loud fan noise won't bother anyone. The bedroom TV setup says it should be good for approximately 7 hours:
I realize that at some point the amount of money spent on these individual long-term Power Backup solutions will be more expensive than if we just bought a whole-house power solution. Those are coming down in price, but we're still looking at $16,000 at a minimum for a LFP solution, and $10,000 or so for a home LP generator solution. (With the LP generator solution, we would need to also pay the Gas utility to increase the size of our gas line, so that tilts me towards a the battery solution.)
Finally, I tried an Amazon 12 VDC LFP battery that replaces the Lead Acid Gel Cell in a normal UPS with an equivalent set of LFP cells. The price was roughly the same as a 12 VDC battery from Batteries+, and it's been running for about a year now with no difficulty. But these APC UPS units won't run for long, and are really intended to allow the powered equipment to be shut down in an orderly manner.
So, am I weird to use these Camping power banks for Home emergency power solutions? I haven't even touched the idea of Solar panels to supplement the run time in an Outage.
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I would not trust a UPS designed for lead acid to properly charge, discharge and maintain a LFP battery.
Sounds like it'd be cheaper to move where the power is more dependable. Like near me. Quite a few houses in this neighborhood go for less than $1M.
Are you weird? If you seriously consider moving for this - YES!
Sounds like it'd be cheaper to move where the power is more dependable. Like near me. Quite a few houses in this neighborhood go for less than $1M.
Are you weird? If you seriously consider moving for this - YES!
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I'm surprised Walmart hasn't banned this guy from all of their stores. He has been on their CASE the past few months.
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Daisy Ridley to Star in New Take on 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' at Paramount+
I'm not usually a fan of remakes but the description provided in the article does intrigue me.
I'm not usually a fan of remakes but the description provided in the article does intrigue me.
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The soundbar/sub is a pickup, also, not a delivery
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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The situation w/ the Titans and Jordan Elliott is scary.
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Makes me think of the Javon Belcher murder suicide.
Titans' Jordan Elliott was released after reportedly going to retrieve a gun after dispute at practice
Jordan Elliott lasted just five games with the Titans.
Makes me think of the Javon Belcher murder suicide.
Every time my Dish contract comes up I weigh the options of keeping Dish or switch to streaming. Right now I can watch/record the OTA channels vis my HDHomerun. I also can stream CBS and NBC via the Paramount+ and Peacock apps. What I would need to find is how to watch the Food Network, HGTV, Syfy, USA, Hallmark channels, Great American Family, Lifetime channels plus a few more with an app or two. My current Dish bill is $118, so I should be able to get a few apps for a lot less.
Any suggestions? I would want the best picture quality and audio quality I could get.
Any suggestions? I would want the best picture quality and audio quality I could get.
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USA and SyFy content is on Peacock, you can receive the rest of those channels via Philo, only $25 a month.
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Interesting article about the work being done to develope an ATSC 3 converter box. Yes it does mention affordable.
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Pearl TV Issues Progress Report on Low-Cost 3.0 Converters in Advance of NAB Show New York
Group has secured lower pricing from key tech players to make less costly boxes available
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It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.
There is absolutely NO compelling reason for anybody to switch to ATSC3.0. They only want it as a total and complete money grab.