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Over the last couple of weeks I have posted a few things about redoing my 1.2 meter dish and not buying junk and avoiding knock-offs. The top of my list was to buy a new LNBF - particularly to try out the GeoSatPro SL1PLL LNBF. I ordered 2. I then posted here within a couple of technical posts that I really liked the new LNBF and thought it was doing a a good job with weak and unstable signals but one of the two units I ordered was DOA, but on such an inexpensive item I wasn't going to go the effort to return it for exchange. Fast forward to yesterday when I checked the mail and there were 2 brand new replacements from Brian at SatAV. What a class act! This is the kind of customer care and product backing that is extremely rare in a world of knock-offs and junk and zero support. Thanks Brian!
The other box that was waiting at the post office was my new GeoSatPro MicroHD receiver I ordered from Dr. Sat. A very small package told me how small the receiver was going to be.
I pulled my openbox S10 and in seconds the new MicroHD was in place. The interface was easily recoginzable from other ALI-based sat boxes but there was no lag and the interface made sense. Having the North American sats in place in both C and KU was a nice change from the usual Asia list in a new receiver. I assigned the sats I wanted, set my Lat/Long and blind scanned all the sats. I did the detailed blind scan, but forgot to set FTA only. Anyway, about 2 hours later all my channels were there on 18 satellites.
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I like the remote. It'll take some getting used to like any change in fingers that were programmed for a different remote, but I like it.
The format of the PVR is compatible with my openbox, so I don't have to convert or lose my existing recordings.
The sensitivity appears to be better than the openbox. I use certain channels like FSTV on 123w or Montana PBS / OKLA PBS as tests as they are weak and I like most people report instability with them. This morning FSTV is coming in during heavy fog. That has never happened before. Even with the big gains when I installed the GeoSatPro PLL LNBF, I still could not get signal in the morning fog on FSTV - until today. Montana and OKLA PBS are also coming decently strong. I will continue to monitor this over time. I give the reported higher tuner sensitivity the credit for this.
Being able to adjust the motor with fine tuning while using USALS, is a new one for me and a HUGE bonus. Excuse me if this is a feature of other boxes, but I didn't know of this feature of any previous satellite receiver I have owned. If the S10 did this, it is news to me. I love fine tuning the motor during fog using USALS and not having to use DiSEQC. I would have liked to see a digital audio port, but the openbox didn't have one either.
I am very pleased with the stability and can tell the MicroHD was well thought through and executed product. Thanks to SatAV for making good stuff and caring about its customers.
The other box that was waiting at the post office was my new GeoSatPro MicroHD receiver I ordered from Dr. Sat. A very small package told me how small the receiver was going to be.
I pulled my openbox S10 and in seconds the new MicroHD was in place. The interface was easily recoginzable from other ALI-based sat boxes but there was no lag and the interface made sense. Having the North American sats in place in both C and KU was a nice change from the usual Asia list in a new receiver. I assigned the sats I wanted, set my Lat/Long and blind scanned all the sats. I did the detailed blind scan, but forgot to set FTA only. Anyway, about 2 hours later all my channels were there on 18 satellites.
Observations:
I like the remote. It'll take some getting used to like any change in fingers that were programmed for a different remote, but I like it.
The format of the PVR is compatible with my openbox, so I don't have to convert or lose my existing recordings.
The sensitivity appears to be better than the openbox. I use certain channels like FSTV on 123w or Montana PBS / OKLA PBS as tests as they are weak and I like most people report instability with them. This morning FSTV is coming in during heavy fog. That has never happened before. Even with the big gains when I installed the GeoSatPro PLL LNBF, I still could not get signal in the morning fog on FSTV - until today. Montana and OKLA PBS are also coming decently strong. I will continue to monitor this over time. I give the reported higher tuner sensitivity the credit for this.
Being able to adjust the motor with fine tuning while using USALS, is a new one for me and a HUGE bonus. Excuse me if this is a feature of other boxes, but I didn't know of this feature of any previous satellite receiver I have owned. If the S10 did this, it is news to me. I love fine tuning the motor during fog using USALS and not having to use DiSEQC. I would have liked to see a digital audio port, but the openbox didn't have one either.
I am very pleased with the stability and can tell the MicroHD was well thought through and executed product. Thanks to SatAV for making good stuff and caring about its customers.
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Ok now someone explain this one. Todays project was to move the 9120B to a new pole. The pole it was on was a reg 1 5/8" pole and had to much play in it to suit me. So after the concrete had set all night, I made the move. Wasn't too hard since the new one was only a foot or so away. Anyway during the re-alignment process the thing is now auto correcting again, so it was a coinsidence, and not a firmware upgrade???? So beats me.
I know this is floating way off topic, but I'd love to see the folks at SatAV develop a good motor I know there probably isn't much demand, though. My 9120B sometimes does the auto-correct (not sure if it does it with the microHD...but definitely with the Openbox), but what really drives me crazy is when it jams (for whatever reason). It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's invariably bad weather or in the middle of the evening when I can't see what I'm doing. I really wish it had a simple "reset" button! Alas, it doesn't. So, reseting that motor means disconnecting the cable to the house, going out to the shop and hooking up a drop cord to the dish, connecting any ol' receiver back to the motor, pushing down on the two buttons at once, switch on the receiver, hold the buttons in for five seconds after the receiver boots up, then finally releasing the buttons to move the dish to "0 position" and clear it's little micro(Processing)-brain. Grrr! Thankfully, it's fixable, but it's so ridiculous
I know there probably isn't much demand, though. My 9120B sometimes does the auto-correct (not sure if it does it with the microHD...but definitely with the Openbox), but what really drives me crazy is when it jams (for whatever reason). It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's invariably bad weather or in the middle of the evening when I can't see what I'm doing. I really wish it had a simple "reset" button! Alas, it doesn't. So, reseting that motor means disconnecting the cable to the house, going out to the shop and hooking up a drop cord to the dish, connecting any ol' receiver back to the motor, pushing down on the two buttons at once, switch on the receiver, hold the buttons in for five seconds after the receiver boots up, then finally releasing the buttons to move the dish to "0 position" and clear it's little micro(Processing)-brain. Grrr! Thankfully, it's fixable, but it's so ridiculous 
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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
Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Tony as the director.
Would you rather have LaRoche ???Tony as the director.
No. Bring in someone new.
Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
I don't think Tim and Tony are that far apart in Age ...No. Bring in someone new.
Remember what Tony said to Tim when they first got back together ...
Tony said: I am the New Tony, Tim .... (something to that effect)
Tony has changed, he's been running his Security Business ... I'm sure he has grown up.
Give it time ... your judging the New Tony from the old Tony.
It sounds like Tim won't be around the Team much longer either.
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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!
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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Please post your remote make/model here and any details of your issue. We are looking to collect as many examples as possible. I may reach out to you for your receiver number, but please do not post it here.
If you've already reported this to me, please repost it here so I can track all instances in one thread.
Thanks!
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If you've already reported this to me, please repost it here so I can track all instances in one thread.
Thanks!
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I was having similar issues last night while watching and recording the NLCS game on 148. When I tried resuming the game at one point the screen went blank and I couldn't get my H3 to respond to any remote commands. Eventually the Hopper went to a HD channel but still no remote response. After a while the Hopper went into a re-boot cycle. This happened at least 3 times. I was using an IR universal remote only.
A little frustrating to have the game broken up like that but at least the Brewers won
Yea, I've only been a CIO for the last 30 years!
Trust me, when something important breaks, they get to own it!
This started a couple months ago. I have 2 H3s on one network, both with 2 EHD identical 3 TB seperately powered so all recordings are accessible by all 4k & J4s (8 of them).
On one H3 (not the main one that controls the MOCA network), after it reboots, it doesn't recognize it has two EHDs plugged into it. Rebooting the EHD by their power source doesn't fix it. Resetting the network doesn't. Software h3 reset doesn't fix it. Rebooting MOCA h3 doesn't fix it but so far, after 3+ cold boots (unplug pwr to H3 with unrecognized EHDs), it finally it figures out they are plugged into it. BUT.... Then when you open a program it only partially shows series and episodes, but instead of showing recordings, it only shows upcoming airings. HELP!!!!
On one H3 (not the main one that controls the MOCA network), after it reboots, it doesn't recognize it has two EHDs plugged into it. Rebooting the EHD by their power source doesn't fix it. Resetting the network doesn't. Software h3 reset doesn't fix it. Rebooting MOCA h3 doesn't fix it but so far, after 3+ cold boots (unplug pwr to H3 with unrecognized EHDs), it finally it figures out they are plugged into it. BUT.... Then when you open a program it only partially shows series and episodes, but instead of showing recordings, it only shows upcoming airings. HELP!!!!
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Thanks JohnGalt1234 - That's interesting. I wonder are the Boot Strap versions different between a Hopper 3 only and a Hopper 3 with Hopper Plus setup as I have the later. I guess when charlesrshell is able to since he has both setups, he can do the test. Unless the bootstrap version is tied to when the specific Hopper 3 is manufactured, in my case, mines is from February 2016 when it was installed.
At least Google Search AI is saying the bootstrap version will never change and unique to each Hopper 3.
This is probably why different people seem to either have the issue or they don't because the bootstrap code could also be tied to the hardware revision and
components other than the internal HD.
At least Google Search AI is saying the bootstrap version will never change and unique to each Hopper 3.
This is probably why different people seem to either have the issue or they don't because the bootstrap code could also be tied to the hardware revision and
components other than the internal HD.
JohnGalt1234 - So you basically have 2 Hopper 3's. The CasinoH3 is the one that is Hopper 3 only while Master Bedroom is a Hopper 3 with Hopper Plus setup.
Master Bedroom uses Android TV (ATV) software so the DISH part is actually a app and will behave differently as you can probably tell the Guide's are different on the Master Bedroom which will resemble the same guide used on other ATV devices such as the Joey 4 and Wireless Joey 4. If I am correct, the CasinoH3 is the one with the problem since you did say the one dated 09/05/2026 is the naughty one while 08/15/2026 named Master Bedroom is the nice one. Usually I would expect the CasinoH3 to be the one without the problem because it's Hopper 3 only and Master Bedroom would be the one with problems because it has the Hopper Plus involved. That is why they behave differently because CasinoH3 is running the native Hopper 3 software while Master Bedroom is running the Android TV software and also it runs a app called DISH known as package com.dish.atv.launcher, the version for mines is P15403 2026100917 so it's probably the same version as the Hopper Plus software version with the date of October 9, 2026, not sure what the 17 means except maybe revision 17?
This explains it better than I can. Sorry, had to take all the ads out.
Master Bedroom uses Android TV (ATV) software so the DISH part is actually a app and will behave differently as you can probably tell the Guide's are different on the Master Bedroom which will resemble the same guide used on other ATV devices such as the Joey 4 and Wireless Joey 4. If I am correct, the CasinoH3 is the one with the problem since you did say the one dated 09/05/2026 is the naughty one while 08/15/2026 named Master Bedroom is the nice one. Usually I would expect the CasinoH3 to be the one without the problem because it's Hopper 3 only and Master Bedroom would be the one with problems because it has the Hopper Plus involved. That is why they behave differently because CasinoH3 is running the native Hopper 3 software while Master Bedroom is running the Android TV software and also it runs a app called DISH known as package com.dish.atv.launcher, the version for mines is P15403 2026100917 so it's probably the same version as the Hopper Plus software version with the date of October 9, 2026, not sure what the 17 means except maybe revision 17?
This explains it better than I can. Sorry, had to take all the ads out.
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No idea what improvements might be involved.
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Two bugs out and three new bugs in.
Yep. Just got a call from a customer who said her DVR buttons stopped working. Told her about the new software and had her reboot her H3, problem solved.Two bugs out and three new bugs in.
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