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As you will discern from my question, I am new to FTA. I have a Geosat Micro HD receiver running 06/26/13 firmware downloaded from the G19 satellite. I bought a KU band motorized system, but the motor was backordered. I successfully setup for single-satellite operation on G19 and have been enjoying G19 programs for about two months. The motor is scheduled to arrive tomorrow and I want to install it in the system, hence my question.
I suppose I could use G19 (97W) to align my dish after I install the motor, but I thought it might be more convenient to use a satellite closer to my longitude of 117W. I need to find an active transponder to align the dish. I checked Lyngsat for KU band transponders on several convenient satellites. When I compared the list from Lyngsat to the preprogrammed transponders for those satellites in my Micro HD, I found no matches. In fact, the list of satellites on Lyngsat did not match 100% to the satellite list in the Micro HD (SATMEX satellites have changed positions). My question is, will I find a satellite if I use the preprogrammed transponders in the Micro HD? Was the satellite and preprogrammed transponder list updated in 06/26/2013 firmware? If so, did I miss installing a current .UDF file if I only did an update from the file on G19? I feel like I'm missing something here...what?
I would appreciate any clarification that the members here can provide. I have learned a lot from this forum and I thank the moderators and administrators for their efforts.
I suppose I could use G19 (97W) to align my dish after I install the motor, but I thought it might be more convenient to use a satellite closer to my longitude of 117W. I need to find an active transponder to align the dish. I checked Lyngsat for KU band transponders on several convenient satellites. When I compared the list from Lyngsat to the preprogrammed transponders for those satellites in my Micro HD, I found no matches. In fact, the list of satellites on Lyngsat did not match 100% to the satellite list in the Micro HD (SATMEX satellites have changed positions). My question is, will I find a satellite if I use the preprogrammed transponders in the Micro HD? Was the satellite and preprogrammed transponder list updated in 06/26/2013 firmware? If so, did I miss installing a current .UDF file if I only did an update from the file on G19? I feel like I'm missing something here...what?
I would appreciate any clarification that the members here can provide. I have learned a lot from this forum and I thank the moderators and administrators for their efforts.
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Sorry, I couldn't help rubbing this in 
No installer needed...when ya follow instructions.
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Good work, SatNav!
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This is how every USALS motor setup should turn out! :up
No installer needed...when ya follow instructions.
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Good work, SatNav!
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Some installs are tougher than others.
Here you go...position your dish pole and line up 125W right through that space gap that drops down at the right side of this pic. All the tree tops are well above the 11 degree elevation of 125w. It's going to take a little longer than an hour. 
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Update #2: So, a friend had a MicroHD recovery cable which he let me borrow. Armed with the ALI Editor and .udf file from the sticky, I tried to install the .udf file. It took me a while to realize I needed a driver for the device, but after I found a USB-to-serial driver and got it installed, I could see the device in the Device Manager conveniently annotated with the COM port number I needed for the installation. I launched the ALI Editor and, following the instructions in the sticky, finished updating the corrupt .udf file in less time than it took to write this sentence...continuous boot problem solved!
So when I got home from work, I updated the firmware in the MicroHD by USB, remembering again to do a factory reset and pull the power cord for at least 10 seconds. Then I went outside, removed the dish from its post, tightened the motor shaft to fix the problem that started all this, rezeroed and reset the SG6100 motor using the instructions in the manual, and reinstalled the dish on the post. I reinserted the USALs data, drove the dish to G19, and called my long-suffering spouse to assist in yelling the signal strengths to me on the balcony. I moved the dish a degree or so and peaked the signal in less than 5 minutes. I ran down a few satellites to prove that everything is working properly. Good again! The entire process described in this paragraph took less than 30 minutes.
I think the secret to getting good signals quickly was that I carefully set my latitude on the motor scale, properly set the dish elevation using the chart in the motor manual (which is actually the motor shaft angle of 35 degrees minus my declination at 47.5 degrees north of 7 degrees, resulting in a dish angle of 28 degrees) and insured that the mounting post was truly plumb. I set my true south by noting the path displayed on the satellite dish setup web site over some small bushes in my yard, which resulted in an almost perfect true south setting on the first try.
The great instructions in the stickies and the friendly suggestions from members of this forum made this setup easy. I guess my time in the military taught me to follow instructions carefully. Thanks to all those who provided the helpful information to this newby and led this project to a successful conclusion. My hat is off to you guys and gals!
So when I got home from work, I updated the firmware in the MicroHD by USB, remembering again to do a factory reset and pull the power cord for at least 10 seconds. Then I went outside, removed the dish from its post, tightened the motor shaft to fix the problem that started all this, rezeroed and reset the SG6100 motor using the instructions in the manual, and reinstalled the dish on the post. I reinserted the USALs data, drove the dish to G19, and called my long-suffering spouse to assist in yelling the signal strengths to me on the balcony. I moved the dish a degree or so and peaked the signal in less than 5 minutes. I ran down a few satellites to prove that everything is working properly. Good again!
The entire process described in this paragraph took less than 30 minutes.I think the secret to getting good signals quickly was that I carefully set my latitude on the motor scale, properly set the dish elevation using the chart in the motor manual (which is actually the motor shaft angle of 35 degrees minus my declination at 47.5 degrees north of 7 degrees, resulting in a dish angle of 28 degrees) and insured that the mounting post was truly plumb. I set my true south by noting the path displayed on the satellite dish setup web site over some small bushes in my yard, which resulted in an almost perfect true south setting on the first try.
The great instructions in the stickies and the friendly suggestions from members of this forum made this setup easy. I guess my time in the military taught me to follow instructions carefully. Thanks to all those who provided the helpful information to this newby and led this project to a successful conclusion. My hat is off to you guys and gals!
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.
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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.
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But.....if you like Tulsa King....looks like you would probably like this as well. I don't mind spin-offs as long as they don't involve a sassy niece who moves from the big cityAnother Tulsa King spin off.
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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Might be worth a watch when it comes out. Looks like typical big corp against the little guy movie BUT....there is a reason this plot type is so oft repeated, it draws audiences.
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