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This is a review and test of the WSI 7630 75cm Ku dish, comparing it to the Winegard DS-2076 76cm Ku dish.
The WSI measures 75cm x 81cm. The Winegard measures 76cm x 83cm.
Packaging: Very good. Sturdy double-wall cardboard box with form-fitting styrofoam insert.
Instructions: Fair. Exploded view drawing with parts list and brief captions. The Winegard instructions are similar, and no better.
Fasteners: The metric fasteners are all hardened and well plated. Six expanding bolts are included to fasten the mount brackets to your house or other flat surface.
Quality/Durability: All parts are nicely finished and high quality. The edges are smooth and safe to handle. The J-pole mount bracket is lighter than the Winegard, and you will need to use the two extra support arms that are included. The WSI dish is lighter, thinner, and noticeably more flexible than the Winegard.
The plastic LNB holder is a very tight fit on the steel arm where it mounts. I forced it on instead of using a small grinder to open it up a bit, and it cracked in the cold winter temperature. I was able to repair it with a metal strap.
I measured the edge of the dish with a dial caliper and got these readings for dish metal thickness including any plating and finish: WSI .035 inch. Winegard .050 inch.
Both should last a long time in the weather, but the Winegard dish is sturdier and in my opinion will survive higher winds than the WSI.
Adjustment ease and accuracy: The WSI assembly instructions call for small plastic washers to be used under the steel washers where adjustment bolts slide in slotted holes. They are much too slippery, and the dish will not hold adjustment if they are used. The elevation scale was off by several degrees on the example tested. The Winegard elevation scale is accurate.
Performance: Using the same JSC321 standard Ku .2 rated LNBF on both dishes and carefully peaking the signal, the WSI consistently gave 3 points higher signal quality on all transponders when tested on SES1 @ 101w using a Coolsat 6000 and ten feet of RG-6 cable. As one example, the WSI gave 75% Q on 12060H while the Winegard was only able to squeeze out 72%. The WSI dish felt like it had a tighter focus when fine tuning the position.
Conclusion: If you can live with the thinner metal of the dish and mount, omit the slippery plastic washers, and get past the inaccurate elevation scale, the 75cm WSI 7630 Ku dish will deliver significantly higher signal quality than the slightly larger Winegard 76cm dish. But if you have high winds where you live, better spend a little more and get the Winegard.
The WSI measures 75cm x 81cm. The Winegard measures 76cm x 83cm.
Packaging: Very good. Sturdy double-wall cardboard box with form-fitting styrofoam insert.
Instructions: Fair. Exploded view drawing with parts list and brief captions. The Winegard instructions are similar, and no better.
Fasteners: The metric fasteners are all hardened and well plated. Six expanding bolts are included to fasten the mount brackets to your house or other flat surface.
Quality/Durability: All parts are nicely finished and high quality. The edges are smooth and safe to handle. The J-pole mount bracket is lighter than the Winegard, and you will need to use the two extra support arms that are included. The WSI dish is lighter, thinner, and noticeably more flexible than the Winegard.
The plastic LNB holder is a very tight fit on the steel arm where it mounts. I forced it on instead of using a small grinder to open it up a bit, and it cracked in the cold winter temperature. I was able to repair it with a metal strap.
I measured the edge of the dish with a dial caliper and got these readings for dish metal thickness including any plating and finish: WSI .035 inch. Winegard .050 inch.
Both should last a long time in the weather, but the Winegard dish is sturdier and in my opinion will survive higher winds than the WSI.
Adjustment ease and accuracy: The WSI assembly instructions call for small plastic washers to be used under the steel washers where adjustment bolts slide in slotted holes. They are much too slippery, and the dish will not hold adjustment if they are used. The elevation scale was off by several degrees on the example tested. The Winegard elevation scale is accurate.
Performance: Using the same JSC321 standard Ku .2 rated LNBF on both dishes and carefully peaking the signal, the WSI consistently gave 3 points higher signal quality on all transponders when tested on SES1 @ 101w using a Coolsat 6000 and ten feet of RG-6 cable. As one example, the WSI gave 75% Q on 12060H while the Winegard was only able to squeeze out 72%. The WSI dish felt like it had a tighter focus when fine tuning the position.
Conclusion: If you can live with the thinner metal of the dish and mount, omit the slippery plastic washers, and get past the inaccurate elevation scale, the 75cm WSI 7630 Ku dish will deliver significantly higher signal quality than the slightly larger Winegard 76cm dish. But if you have high winds where you live, better spend a little more and get the Winegard.
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WS7630 30" dish
Had a chance to try out the WS7630 dish from Galaxy Marketing. It came very well packed. Opened it up and separated the parts. Assembly is pretty easy to do as its only a few parts. The dish is very light which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on location of the dish and your location. I didnt like the fact that there were no extra bolts or nuts as I always seem to lose one. The mast comes with braces which normally should be used. The location where I was going to put the dish posed a problem. The mast has a hole in the side of it for the braces to attach to. But the way I needed to put the mast this wouldn't work. So I just tightened the bolts on the mast a little tighter.
Set the dish near my true south to try out. I decided to try this as a fixed dish setup. Set it up for 97W and locked the 3ABN mux right away. Peaked the dish and got very good results. I tested out the transponders on 97W and logged all the channels. I have another 30" dish that is hooked up to the motor and wanted to see if the results were better, worse or the same. A couple transponders were stronger on the WSI dish versus my Winegard dish. Most of the rest were the same. I moved over to 101W and locked the History (well at the time it was the still frame) and Bio. Signals were very good on it. Maxed out the meter. I tried a few other satellites (83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 95, 97, 101, 103) and the dish performed very well. It really did good on the NBC feeds on 103 but that may also have to do with the LNB being skewed right (as its well known the skew on 103 KU is off by 26 degrees). This would work great as a fixed dish setup for 103W
This past week I decided to install it at my buddy's house. He really wanted RTV & TuffTV and is now at a place where he can put a dish up. That gets me to the elevation bracket. It can be confusing to figure out. There are 2 holes on the top of the bracket. If you put it in the one spot, the markings are way off. If you put it on the other hole, the dish bracket bumps into the dish when you go under 33-34 degrees. While this may not be an issue for most folks, the northern states will have an issue if they want it on a dish with lower elevation. So for him, I put it on the 1st hole. Since I've aimed dishes for years I know about the elevation for true south and went off of that. We got the transponder in at a 70 or so on the Pansat 2500 so he's happy. He's got the older shows to watch.
All and all this is a nice dish. Its lightweight so its easy to carry up the ladder or easy for one person to mount it. We've had some pretty strong winds here and the dish works just fine despite it being lightweight. Signals are just as good as they were the day it was installed. The braces, while not needed are nice to have. I wish there was a collar to bolt it too instead of the dish directly as you are limited if you have the mast mounted at a weird angle.
The elevation scale can have some issues if you're brand new to free to air but otherwise the WSI7630 is a great dish to have. I know my buddy is happy
Had a chance to try out the WS7630 dish from Galaxy Marketing. It came very well packed. Opened it up and separated the parts. Assembly is pretty easy to do as its only a few parts. The dish is very light which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on location of the dish and your location. I didnt like the fact that there were no extra bolts or nuts as I always seem to lose one. The mast comes with braces which normally should be used. The location where I was going to put the dish posed a problem. The mast has a hole in the side of it for the braces to attach to. But the way I needed to put the mast this wouldn't work. So I just tightened the bolts on the mast a little tighter.
Set the dish near my true south to try out. I decided to try this as a fixed dish setup. Set it up for 97W and locked the 3ABN mux right away. Peaked the dish and got very good results. I tested out the transponders on 97W and logged all the channels. I have another 30" dish that is hooked up to the motor and wanted to see if the results were better, worse or the same. A couple transponders were stronger on the WSI dish versus my Winegard dish. Most of the rest were the same. I moved over to 101W and locked the History (well at the time it was the still frame) and Bio. Signals were very good on it. Maxed out the meter. I tried a few other satellites (83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 95, 97, 101, 103) and the dish performed very well. It really did good on the NBC feeds on 103 but that may also have to do with the LNB being skewed right (as its well known the skew on 103 KU is off by 26 degrees). This would work great as a fixed dish setup for 103W
This past week I decided to install it at my buddy's house. He really wanted RTV & TuffTV and is now at a place where he can put a dish up. That gets me to the elevation bracket. It can be confusing to figure out. There are 2 holes on the top of the bracket. If you put it in the one spot, the markings are way off. If you put it on the other hole, the dish bracket bumps into the dish when you go under 33-34 degrees. While this may not be an issue for most folks, the northern states will have an issue if they want it on a dish with lower elevation. So for him, I put it on the 1st hole. Since I've aimed dishes for years I know about the elevation for true south and went off of that. We got the transponder in at a 70 or so on the Pansat 2500 so he's happy. He's got the older shows to watch.
All and all this is a nice dish. Its lightweight so its easy to carry up the ladder or easy for one person to mount it. We've had some pretty strong winds here and the dish works just fine despite it being lightweight. Signals are just as good as they were the day it was installed. The braces, while not needed are nice to have. I wish there was a collar to bolt it too instead of the dish directly as you are limited if you have the mast mounted at a weird angle.
The elevation scale can have some issues if you're brand new to free to air but otherwise the WSI7630 is a great dish to have. I know my buddy is happy
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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!
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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.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
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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 know HipKat said that they were working on conversions but we got the official news yesterday right from Dish that starting next month all DMA's will be on the western arc, and all customers will be assigned to that. That's gonna mean a lot of customers around here aren't gonna get Dish unless there are exceptions. Too many mountains and trees.
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Unfortunately, I don't think my social proximity to Charle Ergen provides any special perks. Maybe if Foxbat, Jr. were to marry his daughter…have charlie buy you a new house
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The title was to catch everyone's eye lol! But it is a thought I've been having as I dev a Roku app for a client. You see many MAAANY years ago I got really interested in cable TV channels and even chatted with a regional carrier, Insight about what it took to get a channel number. It was surprisingly easy although prohibitively expensive.
You could petition, reserve a high channel number, they monitored performance and if they liked you, you'd get lower channel number overtime and cut into ad overlays.
Roku has a similar setup. Make an app, if it has a strong, original linear component you could get channel assignment on The Roku Channel.
As mixed as my feelings are on the current media landscape, I can't help but feel a little excited interest when I scope out the apps in the Roku store.
You could petition, reserve a high channel number, they monitored performance and if they liked you, you'd get lower channel number overtime and cut into ad overlays.
Roku has a similar setup. Make an app, if it has a strong, original linear component you could get channel assignment on The Roku Channel.
As mixed as my feelings are on the current media landscape, I can't help but feel a little excited interest when I scope out the apps in the Roku store.
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Season 2 order already in hand:
'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1
I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.
'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1
I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.
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Why are ViP922s So rare? like its crazy how ebay has none, i checked everywhere, also, i got a ViP222k now, which is actually activated!
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I remember this in the news too...
www.nbcnews.com
$14,000 spent on rented rotary phone
A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now- outdated phone.
www.nbcnews.com
That is a misnomer. In the old days you subscribed to telephone service. That included the telephone line and one telephone. An extension cost $1 a month extra. So that $14,000 over 42 years was for the service not the leased telephone. There is no way they paid $28 a month for 42 years for a leased telephone.I remember this in the news too...
$14,000 spent on rented rotary phone
A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now- outdated phone.
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me either. sometimes it seems like things disappear when they start changing sh*t around
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So...DirecTV advertises the Choice package with 95+ bonus channels for Satellite customers. You don't want 90+ of the 95...
Excluding PPV, premium networks, infomercial, shopping, religion, and non-English programming, there are 7 channels on satellite that are not on streaming:
NFL Network, MavTV, FE TV, Free Speech, NASA, INSP, and Pursuit. I'm pretty sure a couple of those are public interest that they have to carry to meet an FCC quota on satellite.
I hope they get called out for this advertising because that is ridiculous. One big network, NFL, will probably get added to streaming when their next agreement comes up, and the rest are likely very low viewership.
What about streaming, what do you get extra with the Choice package that isn't on Satellite:
Two stations - one of which is an internet TV - Fox Weather, and Heros & Icons (a diginet). Nothing special here to look at either.
If they cleaned up a couple of their agreements, added a few public interest stations to streaming, they could probably have their lineups match. It's close now, if you take out all the garbage on satellite that they earn money on. If they can sell infomercials on satellite, why can't they on streaming, seems like a miss. A bigger miss, including those stations in the "bonus channels just for satellite customers." Pretty sad marketing right there.
Attached is a comparison sheet of satellite vs streaming for the three main packages if anyone is interested.
MOD EDIT: See Post #3 for an up to date list of what channels are available on sat but not on streaming/internet, see Post #21 for an up to date list of what's available in the app for streaming customers, but not for sat customers.
Excluding PPV, premium networks, infomercial, shopping, religion, and non-English programming, there are 7 channels on satellite that are not on streaming:
NFL Network, MavTV, FE TV, Free Speech, NASA, INSP, and Pursuit. I'm pretty sure a couple of those are public interest that they have to carry to meet an FCC quota on satellite.
I hope they get called out for this advertising because that is ridiculous. One big network, NFL, will probably get added to streaming when their next agreement comes up, and the rest are likely very low viewership.
What about streaming, what do you get extra with the Choice package that isn't on Satellite:
Two stations - one of which is an internet TV - Fox Weather, and Heros & Icons (a diginet). Nothing special here to look at either.
If they cleaned up a couple of their agreements, added a few public interest stations to streaming, they could probably have their lineups match. It's close now, if you take out all the garbage on satellite that they earn money on. If they can sell infomercials on satellite, why can't they on streaming, seems like a miss. A bigger miss, including those stations in the "bonus channels just for satellite customers." Pretty sad marketing right there.
Attached is a comparison sheet of satellite vs streaming for the three main packages if anyone is interested.
MOD EDIT: See Post #3 for an up to date list of what channels are available on sat but not on streaming/internet, see Post #21 for an up to date list of what's available in the app for streaming customers, but not for sat customers.
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Apple Fall Hardware Event takes place today, September 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET. It marks the debut of new CEO John Ternus and the expected reveal of Apple's first foldable phone.
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. can we say over priced garbage!!!
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
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