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Well as I type this up I was trying to figure out how to say it. Well I guess the old "be blunt" works the best right?
I'm leaving as staff of Satelliteguys and honestly I'll probably leave the board as a whole. No I'm not moving to another board. I'm just bored with free to air and satellite in general. When I started with free to air in 2003 I got it to save 7.95 a month on my Bell ExpressVu bill. At the time the radio stations on there (some 40 Canadian stations) and the audio channels were in the clear and I was paying $8 a month for them. So I bought a FTA receiver for 60 bucks and hooked it up. Very basic unit. 10 TP entry, no way to move a motor, no channel editing, nothing fancy. You typed in the TP and scanned in all the channels on that transponder. But they came in. So I saved $8 a month.
Then I got a 30" dish and found out alot more was out there. Use to manually aim the dish at a few different satellites. Mainly was used for college hockey games. Upgraded the receiver to one with blind scan and wow that really changed what I watched
(also there went the $8 a month I was saving)
Got a motor and upgraded the dish (better 30" dish) and away I went. Stumbled upon a satellite that had a bunch of stations from around the country. Thought "why the hell would I need 6 different Pax (now Ion) stations or 5 WB stations?" Yes I had stumbled upon the Equity channels. Pretty much left a dish there for 5+ years. Also had some other networks on KU Band. Also found this crazy preacher named Dr Gene Scott on 93W screaming "Git on the Telephone". I could sit there watching him and usually ended up falling asleep. Still do that sometimes.
Memories I'll have
-finding the 1st sports feed on KU
-finding those weird channels
-stumbling upon the equity stations
-remembering how many people put a fixed dish at 123W. I mean it had 35 Equity stations, including the Tube, the Puerto Rico networks (just NBC, CBS, ABC), and UWTV
-The network changes by Equity. Seemed to be weekly for a while.
-LickTV...oh how that sounds soooo bad. But Equity called some stations that after they dropped the Pax affiliation
-UonTV...remember that? Where you paid to get your program on TV. And it seemed like everytime you turned it on there was the Sadoun infomercial, the guys on the 4 wheelers, or what looked like a wedding video.
-The baseball games on Equity channels. Some Sunday's there would be 3 or 4 games
-finding the sports feeds that very few people outside of watching it on a public access channel in a small town could see
-Ohio News Network. I dont know why but I dug this channel.
-74W being the satellite for sports feeds
-Telstar 4 at 89W blowing up
-AMC9 moving from 85W to 83W
-Dish moving all their channels off 105 and subleasing it to companies for sports feeds
-105W becoming the satellite for sports feeds (taking over at one time for 74W)
-gaining some network stations when Hurricane Katrina hit
-The infamous "What happened to Equity stations" threads every time rain went through Little Rock
-KUIL 64 from Beaumont, TX. Fox station that actually had decent programming on it
-The Tube leaving and being replaced with Retro Jams
-Retro Jams Sunday Night (the call in show) but the video list was very slim so you were limited on what you could ask for them to play.
-White Springs TV. Was on the furthest west KU satellite (129W) and could pick it up with a frickin pie tin and a tookpick
-the "test channels" that Dish would do at 148W. Always fun to see what Dish was up to.
-the whole PBS is moving from 87W to this new KU satellite at 125W and the threads we had on that
-finding a bunch of "secret info" on the move for the affiliates (still have those PDF's)
-on C-Band when the Alaska channels went in the clear for like 6 months. All 4 networks+PBS+My Network. That was the bomb. Allowed me to see Ted Sadtler and the Mattress Ranch commercials which I still laugh at to this day.
-the later timezone feeds of CW, My Network, ABC & Fox so if we missed a show it would be on later in the night
-RTN...Retro TV Network. The best thing Equity ever came up with (besides being on satellite).
-The chinese (I think) mux on 127W with the best channel name ever..."SNOT"
-RTN and their dispute with new owner Luken and the red screen of death when they got pulled frm the Equity stations...that and Equity posted Luken's cell number if you had any questions on why RTN was pulled
-RTN getting back up on 83W with a shoestring budget
-Unreliable Sources...a screwed up show sometimes. And before that an even MORE screwed up show
-Confessions. When those lonely women would call in and tell Gary that they cheated on thier husband with the milkman, the paper boy, The UPS man etc and wanted help
-the news channels from around the world like Al Jazeera English, Press TV, CCTV etc
I could go on and on
Then sadly we started losing some good stations.
-UonTV (ok not really sad. Nice concept but hey it sucked)
-KUIL drops the Fox feed and leaves
-Ohio News Network goes internet
-Then there is the whole Equity slow and dying death that actually we are coming up on the 2 year anniversary of Equity being sold and channels leaving. Actually it started earlier than that when they were losing affiliations and basically filled them with RTN (now RTV). Then the red screen of death and them scrambling to fill it with really old crappy public domain movies before settling on This TV and Tuff TV on some. Equity gets sold and slowly we lose what was left. Then 6/12/09 comes (the DTV upgrade) and kills more stations quickly because they were full powered.
Yes I know there is still stuff up there on KU Band like the news stations but honestly its nowhere near the "good old days". There's lots of college sports still up there but with college football, basketball and hockey done for the season there isnt that much sports on KU. The system may not move satellites for a few days at a time.
I want to thank everyone here who calls the free to air section of Satelliteguys home. I've learned a lot here from y'all and tried to give that knowledge to folks starting out. I want to thank Scott for giving us this area as our own little playground. When I first got into FTA all there was for us was the "general satellite area" and really nobody posted. But Scott made a free to air section for us and it expanded beyond that simple area into what you see now with separate sections for C-Band, 4DTV, PC Cards, a software and manual download section and an area where we can shoot the breeze on non-technical FTA stuff. He asked me to help run this area and I had fun doing it.
There is an old saying "Do what you love until the desire to do it is gone". Well sadly the desire is gone so its time for me to move on. Its been fun guys .
-Berg
I'm leaving as staff of Satelliteguys and honestly I'll probably leave the board as a whole. No I'm not moving to another board. I'm just bored with free to air and satellite in general. When I started with free to air in 2003 I got it to save 7.95 a month on my Bell ExpressVu bill. At the time the radio stations on there (some 40 Canadian stations) and the audio channels were in the clear and I was paying $8 a month for them. So I bought a FTA receiver for 60 bucks and hooked it up. Very basic unit. 10 TP entry, no way to move a motor, no channel editing, nothing fancy. You typed in the TP and scanned in all the channels on that transponder. But they came in. So I saved $8 a month.
Then I got a 30" dish and found out alot more was out there. Use to manually aim the dish at a few different satellites. Mainly was used for college hockey games. Upgraded the receiver to one with blind scan and wow that really changed what I watched
(also there went the $8 a month I was saving)Got a motor and upgraded the dish (better 30" dish) and away I went. Stumbled upon a satellite that had a bunch of stations from around the country. Thought "why the hell would I need 6 different Pax (now Ion) stations or 5 WB stations?" Yes I had stumbled upon the Equity channels. Pretty much left a dish there for 5+ years. Also had some other networks on KU Band. Also found this crazy preacher named Dr Gene Scott on 93W screaming "Git on the Telephone". I could sit there watching him and usually ended up falling asleep. Still do that sometimes.
Memories I'll have
-finding the 1st sports feed on KU
-finding those weird channels
-stumbling upon the equity stations
-remembering how many people put a fixed dish at 123W. I mean it had 35 Equity stations, including the Tube, the Puerto Rico networks (just NBC, CBS, ABC), and UWTV
-The network changes by Equity. Seemed to be weekly for a while.
-LickTV...oh how that sounds soooo bad. But Equity called some stations that after they dropped the Pax affiliation
-UonTV...remember that? Where you paid to get your program on TV. And it seemed like everytime you turned it on there was the Sadoun infomercial, the guys on the 4 wheelers, or what looked like a wedding video.
-The baseball games on Equity channels. Some Sunday's there would be 3 or 4 games
-finding the sports feeds that very few people outside of watching it on a public access channel in a small town could see
-Ohio News Network. I dont know why but I dug this channel.
-74W being the satellite for sports feeds
-Telstar 4 at 89W blowing up
-AMC9 moving from 85W to 83W
-Dish moving all their channels off 105 and subleasing it to companies for sports feeds
-105W becoming the satellite for sports feeds (taking over at one time for 74W)
-gaining some network stations when Hurricane Katrina hit
-The infamous "What happened to Equity stations" threads every time rain went through Little Rock
-KUIL 64 from Beaumont, TX. Fox station that actually had decent programming on it
-The Tube leaving and being replaced with Retro Jams
-Retro Jams Sunday Night (the call in show) but the video list was very slim so you were limited on what you could ask for them to play.
-White Springs TV. Was on the furthest west KU satellite (129W) and could pick it up with a frickin pie tin and a tookpick
-the "test channels" that Dish would do at 148W. Always fun to see what Dish was up to.
-the whole PBS is moving from 87W to this new KU satellite at 125W and the threads we had on that
-finding a bunch of "secret info" on the move for the affiliates (still have those PDF's)
-on C-Band when the Alaska channels went in the clear for like 6 months. All 4 networks+PBS+My Network. That was the bomb. Allowed me to see Ted Sadtler and the Mattress Ranch commercials which I still laugh at to this day.
-the later timezone feeds of CW, My Network, ABC & Fox so if we missed a show it would be on later in the night
-RTN...Retro TV Network. The best thing Equity ever came up with (besides being on satellite).
-The chinese (I think) mux on 127W with the best channel name ever..."SNOT"
-RTN and their dispute with new owner Luken and the red screen of death when they got pulled frm the Equity stations...that and Equity posted Luken's cell number if you had any questions on why RTN was pulled
-RTN getting back up on 83W with a shoestring budget
-Unreliable Sources...a screwed up show sometimes. And before that an even MORE screwed up show
-Confessions. When those lonely women would call in and tell Gary that they cheated on thier husband with the milkman, the paper boy, The UPS man etc and wanted help
-the news channels from around the world like Al Jazeera English, Press TV, CCTV etc
I could go on and on
Then sadly we started losing some good stations.
-UonTV (ok not really sad. Nice concept but hey it sucked)
-KUIL drops the Fox feed and leaves
-Ohio News Network goes internet
-Then there is the whole Equity slow and dying death that actually we are coming up on the 2 year anniversary of Equity being sold and channels leaving. Actually it started earlier than that when they were losing affiliations and basically filled them with RTN (now RTV). Then the red screen of death and them scrambling to fill it with really old crappy public domain movies before settling on This TV and Tuff TV on some. Equity gets sold and slowly we lose what was left. Then 6/12/09 comes (the DTV upgrade) and kills more stations quickly because they were full powered.
Yes I know there is still stuff up there on KU Band like the news stations but honestly its nowhere near the "good old days". There's lots of college sports still up there but with college football, basketball and hockey done for the season there isnt that much sports on KU. The system may not move satellites for a few days at a time.
I want to thank everyone here who calls the free to air section of Satelliteguys home. I've learned a lot here from y'all and tried to give that knowledge to folks starting out. I want to thank Scott for giving us this area as our own little playground. When I first got into FTA all there was for us was the "general satellite area" and really nobody posted. But Scott made a free to air section for us and it expanded beyond that simple area into what you see now with separate sections for C-Band, 4DTV, PC Cards, a software and manual download section and an area where we can shoot the breeze on non-technical FTA stuff. He asked me to help run this area and I had fun doing it.
There is an old saying "Do what you love until the desire to do it is gone". Well sadly the desire is gone so its time for me to move on. Its been fun guys .
-Berg
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Mrmeandu,
You will have to bare with us, we are a "CRAZY" bunch!
Just understand that we always mean well and we hope to never give bad advice. We can be wrong or misguided at times, but we are generally quickly corrected by our co-members. So always read the follow-up conversations and posts. You'll grow to love us (someday) LOL! We have a lot of fun with this hobby and there is always someone here that can help with a Q? Somebody always has a handle on one subject or another and if we don't, we frequently go searching for the answers to help you.Glad you came in and hope you have a blast here!
RADAR
P.S. Don't forget, most of us are sick and twisted! LOL!
POP,
Do you mean to infer that Ice actually signed off (once)? I thought that the power just went out due to an unexpected Hurricane in Minnesota or something? LOL!
RADAR
Hah, Hah, Ha! Only if you are brave, Navy! Only if you are brave!
"Parade.... STRIP!"
LOL
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Cutting Edge
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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Marques Brownlee
Time for another AWESOME video from Marques Brownlee!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scwlR0QHGOk
Direct YouTube Link - The NEW Tesla Roadster: My Honest Reaction
The official MKBHD Website!
The MKBHD Store
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scwlR0QHGOk
Direct YouTube Link - The NEW Tesla Roadster: My Honest Reaction
The official MKBHD Website!
The MKBHD Store
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iJustine
Time for another AWESOME video from iJustine!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m44iKsdN1-Q
Direct YouTube Link - NVIDIA RTX Spark launch party!!!
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m44iKsdN1-Q
Direct YouTube Link - NVIDIA RTX Spark launch party!!!
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
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For quite a while now, people with a VIP211k have been losing their recordings on their activated external HDDs... even when there's nothing physically wrong with HDD. I believe this is an intentional and underhanded tactic that Dish is pulling in an attempt to force users away from the VIP211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
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Has anyone subscribed to NBA League Pass for 2026-27 and try to link their account to NBA.com to stream League Pass? I purchased it for 2026-27, and when I linked, I got a message saying success, but then I receive an error that my linked subscription does not include the preseason games for NBA League Pass. Is that how it has always been? I know satellite doesn't have the preseason games on the NBA League Pass channels, but I thought that I was able to stream the preseason once I linked my account on NBA.com?
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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Nah, you just don't understand how ignore works, which is why you made your own NFL thread thinking there wasn't one
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
S
wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
S
OMG to freaking funny
You're no fun.
I thought I would come here and find lots of complaints about the update to the dish anywhere mobile app, but am not seeing any. It used to look just like the desktop webpage. Now you can no longer filter by sports channels or movie channels. Plus that they made it look like a big button telephone and you see fewer channels in the screen which requires more scrolling. Yes I realize you can look at sports then select which sport you want to look at, I just liked being able to see all sporting events in the guide with all other channels being filtered out. Am I alone in the wilderness on this?
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
www.apple.com
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
You should have looked in the APP STORE instead.
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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
You have a different offer that is free for a shorter timeframe which is different than the one that I and bnewt saw without defining the promotion period as I sent the question to DISH Care via Facebook Messenger and this is the response I got back 20 minutes ago.