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So, phone rings.
Dad made some adjustments to the dish pole with his lawnmower. Ooopsy!
Dad! Really???
So now they are getting nothing at all and I have been called to a rescue mission to restore digital goodness to their humble abode..
He must have rammed it pretty hard because I have hit several of my dishes with my riding mower over the past few years and have never knocked one out of alignment yet. I just can't imagine what he could have done there. And his riding mower is half the size, weight and power of mine, it's a dinky one.
I am going to recommend that they build a wall around the base, maybe out of landscape timbers or bricks and mom can plant some flowers in it so that Dad can't get close to it anymore..
Time to put my meter on charge and go make my first official service call..
Dad made some adjustments to the dish pole with his lawnmower. Ooopsy!
Dad! Really???
So now they are getting nothing at all and I have been called to a rescue mission to restore digital goodness to their humble abode..
He must have rammed it pretty hard because I have hit several of my dishes with my riding mower over the past few years and have never knocked one out of alignment yet. I just can't imagine what he could have done there. And his riding mower is half the size, weight and power of mine, it's a dinky one.
I am going to recommend that they build a wall around the base, maybe out of landscape timbers or bricks and mom can plant some flowers in it so that Dad can't get close to it anymore..
Time to put my meter on charge and go make my first official service call..
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Dee, not many of us are anal enough to put our dishes in a straight line. yeah you saw mine, but that's just ME, that's how I do things, neat, orderly, and close to perfect as I am able.
BUT, I think you have the right idea. There is NO reason you can't put your dishes however you want to. You want them in the shape of an arc, do it. You want rock gardens? Do it.
Oh, and when ya get good enough on that JD, you can cut close to those dishes and never slow down. My Husqvarna doesn't even hardly slow down going around mine.
BUT, I think you have the right idea. There is NO reason you can't put your dishes however you want to. You want them in the shape of an arc, do it. You want rock gardens? Do it.
Oh, and when ya get good enough on that JD, you can cut close to those dishes and never slow down. My Husqvarna doesn't even hardly slow down going around mine.
Haha, and with a cigar in mouth, I suppose? I've seen two BUDs with the lower rims seriously dented by riding lawnmowers. These BUDs were mounted quite a bit off the ground, so I'm not sure what part of the rider hit the dish, but this bonehead comes to mind:Oh, and when ya get good enough on that JD, you can cut close to those dishes and never slow down. My Husqvarna doesn't even hardly slow down going around mine.
LOL!!
I talked to Mom a few minutes ago and she said that last night they were LOST without their satellite. They kept pushing buttons trying to get it to work but finally gave up and had to find other things to do...
I told her she needs to build a lawnmower barricade around the dish pole with bricks and plant something in it and she said that's going to happen tomorrow!
Mom wants her PBS back, ASAP!
Dad is on the way over to pick me up to go fix things.
I talked to Mom a few minutes ago and she said that last night they were LOST without their satellite. They kept pushing buttons trying to get it to work but finally gave up and had to find other things to do...
I told her she needs to build a lawnmower barricade around the dish pole with bricks and plant something in it and she said that's going to happen tomorrow!
Mom wants her PBS back, ASAP!
Dad is on the way over to pick me up to go fix things.
Well that didn't work out as I expected.
First thing I did was turn the tuner on and try to move the dish around to satellites at the extremes, 83 and 125.
Nothing. No signal.. Hrrrrrrmmmm....
So I ask Dad if he checked the level on the pole. He said he hadn't done anything at all. So I told him to get a level and let's go check. He did and we found the pole was very much dead on perfect. So it wasn't the pole.
The very next thing that came to mind was that the dish is wiggly. I had noticed that before when I put it up but at the time it was working great so we figured it could wait. So I reached out and grabbed the edge and sure enough, it moved a lot.
So I poked my head in the door and asked Mom if it was doing anything. She said PBS Create was back on but not looking too good. Bingo! That was the problem, Dad had just bumped the dish and it moved because the motor gears are loose.
A few weeks ago I saw a post on here where one of you guys had the same problem with a SG9120 and used a hidden adjustment to tighten the gears up. So I found the sticker on the motor, explained it to Dad and he got an L wrench and tried to tighten it up. He tightened it a LOT and it still wiggled waaaaaaaay too much. So I went inside and tried to move the dish and it was stuck fast. It was too tight. So Dad fiddled with the adjustment until it loosened up enough to let it move again but it was very, very wiggly.
So anyway, I plugged my little meter into the dish and wiggled it back and forth by hand until I got a good signal and called it good for now. We went back inside to check and everything was coming in pretty good but could be better. I need to go over sometime when it's a whole bunch cooler and spend more time on it.
My dad wants one of those meters like I have. He thinks that's neat stuff and he said it would make it easier so he wouldn't have to shuttle me back and forth everytime something goes kooky. Thing is, and I can't believe I'm saying this but, I don't think Dad understands that it's not like an idiot light on the dashboard of a car, that you actually have to know at least a little about the stuff to use it. If he really wants one I would have to teach him about this stuff and how to use it.
So now he wants photos of the inside of the motor and a copy of the file that explains the procedure to adjust the gears on the motor. I have those but they are on my main pc which is totally messed up right now.
I'm pretty shocked at how wiggly that motor gear is. That can't be right.
But mechanical things, my dad is good at. He just spent three weeks totally rebuilding the motor in his Buick, all by himself. And he has a little machine shop in his garage with all sorts of big oily machines for making metal things so I would bet money he could make a set of brand new gears for that motor.
Oh, and when I mentioned a barricade around the dish he was totally against that. Just more yard work he says. Whatever... Hard head..
Well, at least they have satellite back. Dad gets his jollies on Antiques Roadshow and American Pickers. Mom just likes everything on PBS in general.
First thing I did was turn the tuner on and try to move the dish around to satellites at the extremes, 83 and 125.
Nothing. No signal.. Hrrrrrrmmmm....
So I ask Dad if he checked the level on the pole. He said he hadn't done anything at all. So I told him to get a level and let's go check. He did and we found the pole was very much dead on perfect. So it wasn't the pole.
The very next thing that came to mind was that the dish is wiggly. I had noticed that before when I put it up but at the time it was working great so we figured it could wait. So I reached out and grabbed the edge and sure enough, it moved a lot.
So I poked my head in the door and asked Mom if it was doing anything. She said PBS Create was back on but not looking too good. Bingo! That was the problem, Dad had just bumped the dish and it moved because the motor gears are loose.
A few weeks ago I saw a post on here where one of you guys had the same problem with a SG9120 and used a hidden adjustment to tighten the gears up. So I found the sticker on the motor, explained it to Dad and he got an L wrench and tried to tighten it up. He tightened it a LOT and it still wiggled waaaaaaaay too much. So I went inside and tried to move the dish and it was stuck fast. It was too tight. So Dad fiddled with the adjustment until it loosened up enough to let it move again but it was very, very wiggly.
So anyway, I plugged my little meter into the dish and wiggled it back and forth by hand until I got a good signal and called it good for now. We went back inside to check and everything was coming in pretty good but could be better. I need to go over sometime when it's a whole bunch cooler and spend more time on it.
My dad wants one of those meters like I have. He thinks that's neat stuff and he said it would make it easier so he wouldn't have to shuttle me back and forth everytime something goes kooky. Thing is, and I can't believe I'm saying this but, I don't think Dad understands that it's not like an idiot light on the dashboard of a car, that you actually have to know at least a little about the stuff to use it. If he really wants one I would have to teach him about this stuff and how to use it.
So now he wants photos of the inside of the motor and a copy of the file that explains the procedure to adjust the gears on the motor. I have those but they are on my main pc which is totally messed up right now.
I'm pretty shocked at how wiggly that motor gear is. That can't be right.
But mechanical things, my dad is good at. He just spent three weeks totally rebuilding the motor in his Buick, all by himself. And he has a little machine shop in his garage with all sorts of big oily machines for making metal things so I would bet money he could make a set of brand new gears for that motor.
Oh, and when I mentioned a barricade around the dish he was totally against that. Just more yard work he says. Whatever... Hard head..
Well, at least they have satellite back. Dad gets his jollies on Antiques Roadshow and American Pickers. Mom just likes everything on PBS in general.
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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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TWiT Tech Podcast Network
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TWiT Tech Podcast Network
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