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sansabar
Last reply · posted in DIRECTV General Forum
While setting up my local HD channels through my DirecTV H10 I am getting the "Station Not Available" message for one of the local broadcasts (WTLH-DT 50.1). I can receive all of the other local HD brodcasts - all appear to be in the 1000kW, including the one in question (the receiver even brought some in on the setup that I cannot receive via the OTA anenna).
My question is this: Is this a common probem? And if so, is there a way to remedy it? Other stations on the fringe get the "searching" message but with this one channel it seems to be "off limits". I was wondering if it could be the zip code via the H10 limiting my choices (however, it found the non-HD broadcast station of the same channel with ease).
Some insight would be greatly appreciated.
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sansabar
I am using a Channel Master 3020 with a Titan2 7777 Amplifier. No diplexer - two separate lines running to the D10. I receive all of the other local channels, they broadcast from approximately 30 miles away in the same line of sight. I get Fox49 clear as can be, but don't seem to get the option of Fox49-HD (broadcast on 50.1) The wattage of this broadcast station is the same as the other local HDs, no further away and in the same line (270 degrees) from my location.
sansabar
Alan

Thanks for the response. I guess that I found some posted misinformation. It stated that WTLH-HD, along with WTWC-DT (NBC), WCTV-DT (CBS) and WTXL-DT (ABC), all brodcast at 1000kW. I figured if I was getting one I should be getting them all. Obviously some powers are way up or Fox's is much lower than stated.
Thanks for straightening me out!

Scott
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sansabar said:
Thanks for the response. I guess that I found some posted misinformation. It stated that WTLH-HD, along with WTWC-DT (NBC), WCTV-DT (CBS) and WTXL-DT (ABC), all brodcast at 1000kW. I figured if I was getting one I should be getting them all. Obviously some powers are way up or Fox's is much lower than stated.
Thanks for straightening me out!

While I can't get a reliable signal from them (during the day), most nights (during primetime), I can pick up WCTV-DT quite well, and I have picked up both WTXL-DT, WTWC-DT and WVAG-DT on occasion (though not since WTXL-DT recently went HD) as well as WFSU-DT (try picking up WFSU-DT on digital channel #32!). If I had a VHF antenna, I'd probably pick up WTWC-DT, but I have NEVER ONCE picked up WTLH-DT at all, not even a bit of a signal... which is saying a lot since I have picked up stations from Atlanta, Savannah, Macon, Columbus, Jacksonville, FL, Dothan, AL, Tampa, FL, Orlando, FL and more from time to time.

I've found lists that have been less than acurate regarding the power levels of digital stations, and often the best way to find out is to either look at the FCC website, or to ask questions in the Tallahassee, FL link I posted in my post above. It also has a list of the final channel numbers for Tallahassee, FL after the analog shutdown.

~Alan
sansabar
Alan

Am I to understand that after the analog shutdown, all of the Tallahassee area broadcasts will be UHF? I thought VHF was the better choice and it appears there will be no broadcasts in the VHF realm.

WCTV-46
WFSU-32
WTLF-24
WTXL-27
WTWC-40
WTLH-49
WFXU-48

Scott
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sansabar said:
Am I to understand that after the analog shutdown, all of the Tallahassee area broadcasts will be UHF? I thought VHF was the better choice and it appears there will be no broadcasts in the VHF realm.

Actually, GPTV station WABW in Pelham (close to the Tallahassee market) will be broadcasting on VHF channel #5. Other than that though, yes, every station should be UHF... which is kind of strange since WCTV recently started mapping their digital channel to 6-1 instead of 46-1 like they had been doing.

WTWC decided to change to UHF since #40 is usually easier to pick up than #2.
WCTV probably decided to change from #6 to #46 for the same reason.

Some stations have decided to change because of signal reasons, some decided to stay because of the familiar number, and some didn't want to have to switch from UHF back to VHF after spending the money to broadcast their current digital signal on UHF. Several other reasons could come into play also.

WALB-DT in Albany has decided to switch back to their analog channel of #10, and WFXL-DT has decided to stay on their current digital channel of #12.

~Alan
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
Now that I'm retired, obviously I have different health care insurance. I take 2 prescriptions. With my old insurance I didn't have to pay for either of them, now I do. It's not a huge amount but it led me to dig a little into the cost of prescription medications. I have been using Walgreens for the longest time. But what I found was that Walgreens price is 4.8 times more for one of my prescriptions and the other is 2.3 percent more compared to the lowest price pharmacy. If you pay for prescription medications you might want to have a look at trumprx and see if you can get a lower price.


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I run them through several different providers to see who has the lowest cost

Usually it's Walmart or Sam's + GoodRx

Also...


You can also price them through the CareCard and WellRx apps.

Sometimes Amazon Pharmacy is cheapest.
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I am fortunate that the couple things I take end up being no cost to me. So far!

I get shipped 90 day supply automatically by CVS via my Medicare Advantage plan.
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Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
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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Anyone heard any updates on this, I'm still having the issue so thought I'd check in.
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Anyone heard any updates on this, I'm still having the issue so thought I'd check in.
No updates but if you can get DISH Technical Operations to roll you back to H710 or earlier even though H708 would be best because it also eliminates another problem like in this comment, you will also no longer have the problem as long as you don't update manually or forced to any new version until the problem is fixed as the problem started in H711 and still exist in H712 and H713.
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Installed an off-air antenna a couple days ago for a customer who had just cancelled his Dish service. He had a dual off-air adapter and gave it to me. Cool. I'll keep it on the truck....might come in handy. Got to admit I don't watch anything as far as live tv goes anymore. Even if we have severe weather, our local channels will have a live feed on Youtube.
navychop
In other news, it was announced that the software fix for the two tin cans and a string will not be forthcoming. A hardware fix is required. However, that fix will let you receive stations from a gazillion miles away.

Truck roll charges may apply. Two year commitment required.
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Hi all. If you were using a single tuner USB OTA adapter that is no longer working, please PM me. Thanks. :)
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Loose lips sink ships for her...
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Dang. That had to hurt. I would have not handled it that well. Surprised it wasn't brought up by Heff at the challenge.
dfergie
First rule - if you get a clue follow it immediately, 2nd - keep your stuff with you in a strange place, 3rd - pay attention to your ride... (pre first - don't go if you think you might not want to stay Rob)
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Loved the tribal🤣
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Last reply · posted in SatelliteGuys Support Center
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.
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Just a heads up... I just patched our PHP to close the major PHP exploit announced this morning.

Now on PHP 8.4.27 (cli) (built: Oct 20 2026 00:00:00)
harshness
More specifically, these:



A more scholarly story is here:

navychop
"WARNING Will Robinson!"
Don in CT
Just a heads up... I just patched our PHP to close the major PHP exploit announced this morning.

Now on PHP 8.4.27 (cli) (built: Oct 20 2026 00:00:00)
When I heard about this exploit I was wondering how quick you would be on it. :D
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When I heard about this exploit I was wondering how quick you would be on it. :D
12 minutes after the patch was release I had it patched. :)
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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....
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You'll Always Be Loved By Me - Brooks & Dunn
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You'll Always Be the One - Dinah Shore
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Still the One - Orleans
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Bruce
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Last reply · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum
I was reading this article


That said this-
Last summer, for the first time, streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime claimed the largest share of the television viewing audience, surpassing both cable and broadcast TV. Streaming captured 34.8 percent of July viewers, according to Nielsen data, compared to 34.4 percent for cable and 21.6 percent for broadcast.

And then, sometime in the second half of 2022, cord-cutters became the majority. The share of cable and satellite television subscribers dipped to 48 percent, according to a report from Samba TV, a television technology company.


Now I do not consider those with YTTV and the likes, Cord Cutters, but they still do not have Traditional Cable/Satellite delivered Live TV, so I decided to do the math.

There are, now, 129 Million Households in the United States.

In 2015, there were 100 Million Cable/Sat Subscribers , no streaming Live TV Service.

Today, there are 66 Million Live TV subscribers, including Cable, Satellite and Streaming.

Roughly, Streaming Live TV has 14 Million subs including all of them.

So that means, Cable/Satellite now has, roughly, 51 Million Households

So in just 8 years, lost 49% of their subscribers and by the end of this year, expected sub count to be, roughly, 45 million households.

That means a total loss of 55% since 2015 at the end of 2023.

But out of 129 Million households, 45 million will mean only 35% will get Cable/Satellite Delivered Live TV by the end of 2023.

Imagine what 2024 will be like.
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Bruce
Sony is discontinuing it's last 4K disc player, Panasonic has been rumored to be doing the same, the end of physical media is unfortunately, about to happen.

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Got a Sony 700 at WM dot commie.

I think.

Ordered, anyway. Amazon let me go thru entire process but then said no inventory.

Hopefully,, WM will come thru.
dishstaller
Sony is discontinuing it's last 4K disc player, Panasonic has been rumored to be doing the same, the end of physical media is unfortunately, about to happen.
Hate to hear that. If you don't physically have something in your hand, you don't really own it.
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Hate to hear that. If you don't physically have something in your hand, you don't really own it.
Even a physical disc purchase is considered a license, just extremely harder to pull access vs digital.

But once new players are no longer sold and older players quit working, that takes care of the access to your library.

See LaserDiscs for one example of that happening.
ncted
Sony is discontinuing it's last 4K disc player, Panasonic has been rumored to be doing the same, the end of physical media is unfortunately, about to happen.

I am so done with Sony on so many levels. This is just one small piece of it.
M
Last reply · posted in Over the Air Television By RabbitEars.Info
Interesting article about the work being done to develope an ATSC 3 converter box. Yes it does mention affordable.
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navychop
DEATH TO NEXGEN!
primestar31
DEATH TO NEXGEN!
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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.
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I truly hope you are right.
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What bothers me is the total waste of broadcasting spectrum in this very crowded market. It has been almost three years now since KFOX converted their broadcast tower to ATSC 3.0 and moved all of their channels to other towers causing noticeable degradation of the picture quality.
I have a Sony TV with 3.0 capabilities but still use the 1.0 version of locals due to the fact that one or all of the 3.0 channels are often missing or unwatchable. In this city of 800K I doubt that more than a few hundred even know about ATSC 3.0.
The only thing that could motivate me to be interested in 3.0 would be if all of the minor networks (diginets) could be in at least 720P rather than blurry ultra-compressed 480i.
Three years is long enough to waste one of the few available RF frequencies in the area for this trial.
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.
navychop
In this city of 800K I doubt that more than a few hundred even know about ATSC 3.0.

They might notice the hand going into their pocket for their wallet.
navychop
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.

QFT. Of course, my preference involves a curb and some kicking.
Van
Van
Last reply · posted in What's Cooking?
Who says dinner or lunch has to be the only good meals of the day?

Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
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Wound up at the Waffle House this morning. Got the two egg breakfast with coffee.

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Speaking of waffles, I'm going to put my mini waffle iron on stove so I'll remember to make waffles in the morning... Had some last week, been awhile.
dfergie
Dos cackleberrys over easy on top of 2 corned beef hash patties fried in skillet... Chocolate milk.
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Cold morning today, only 32 degrees. Fired up the oven and made cinnamon rolls (from a tube) and a pot of coffee.
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2 egg burrito with bacon and a side of hashbrowns. Coffee.

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