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. Raine
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Last reply · posted in C-BAND Satellite Discussion
Hello everyone,
I'm having trouble aiming the Radio Shack C band dish I just put up, seems like I'm definitely missing something, hopefully something simple. The pole is plumb, my magnetic protractor at any position on the pole shows it to be spot on. Signal seems to be low, on my First Strike FS1 meter it shows about 40 for signal and 0 for Quality, the same if I hook up my X2 receiver. Trying to aim it at 72 W, my South sat, using 3937 V 2825 and 4063 V 1628 for TP's to lock on to and can't get nothing. My lat. is 41.7919 and long. is 71.8717, set elevation to 41.7 and aiming at 194.6 magnetic for azimuth, declination on the dish I set to 5.9 degrees. The dish has a horizon to horizon mount and has separate adjustments on it for declination and elevation. I have the alignment printout from the original owners from when they bought it and they didn't live too far away, it shows their lat. at 42.17, long. 71.14, elevation 42.8, declination 5.9 degrees. Are C band dishes harder to aim than Ku? My Ku dish I move around and find signal within minutes, not this dish though. Right now it has a single feed [ADL ?] with a Norsat Gold 710-0285 LNB on it and I'm using the original receiver for the polorator and motor control, which both motor and polorator are working fine. I tried another LNB that I have, a Pico LNB-75, and had the same results, just slightly higher signal. I do have two other feeds, a single chapparel and a dual ortho, which once I get the dish working I am planning on putting on the dual ortho. I figured for now I'd try the feed that came with the dish, seeing as how I have the instructions for that, even though they aren't very clear on mounting the feed to the feed arm. using 5150 as low, 18 v for supply to the LNB. Checked the cabling, no shorts or anything and the cable works fine with my Ku dish. Tried slowly, by very small increments, moving elevation and azimuth, like I do for my Ku dish when trying to lock something, and can't seem to get anything. Any advice would be much appreciated. I can post pictures, if needed, I actually have a bunch of pictures posted in another thread but I don't know how to add a link here in this one. The dish is an SR2012 Radio Shack Satellite System and the receiver that I'm using for the motor and polarator is a Realistic SR-2012. There is a lot of trees to the South but my Ku dish worked fine in the exact same spot just a week ago, so I'm thinking, hoping that the C band dish would work all right there too?
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waylew
If I recall your dish is an 8',those tp's are dvb s2 8psk,hard to get on an 8',especially when you're hunting for your first sat.If you have a ku set up you can put on the dish it would be most likely easier to find the nbc mux on the ku side.
While I get the cw's fine on my 12'Paraclipse,I've never been able to get the 4063 tp.
FaT Air
Have you tried calculating and or adjusting the focal length? It's quite common for it to be close, but not at the optimum position, as the analog signals are a bit more 'forgiving'. (all they had back when the dish was made)
Are you powering the LNB with the analog receiver? How are you getting the LNB signal to the FTA receiver?
3937 V 2825 my strongest @ Q 78
4063 V 1628 is a no show here also. Kinda think it's been gone for a while.

If it's S2 being the problem, there is a DVB-S Tp on Simón Bolívar at 78.0°W. that could be 'tried' ONLY .4° lower that 72W but west ~9°.
Still close enough to use as 'south satellite'.

?After making an adjustment, stop and wait, 10 seconds or so to allow the receiver/meter to 'lock on'.
Might look over
http://theho.web.fc2.com/BUD/9525/ for more info/clues I've put on the web. Let us know here what 'happens'.

beavs2112
I would lower your declination to 5.7 from 5.9 for starters. also take a picture from behind your dish when its pointed due south and post it here so we can see what your dish is seeing. also don't forget that a ku dish is an offset focus dish and a c-band dish is a prime focus. for newbie c-banders i recommend this website also http://www.geo-orbit.org/sizepgs/tuningp4.html#anchor797917
. Raine
It's Alive!

Waylew, Fat Air and Beavs2112, thank you, it's working! Aiming for 78W and lowering the declination did the trick. It's not one hundred percent tracking the arc right now but it's real, real close. This weekend, if the weather is good, I'm gonna finish adjusting it and then install the dual ortho feed and also check the focal length as Fat Air suggested. I tried all three LNB's that I have and they're all good, so the two Norsats can go on the ortho. Once again, thank you!
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Hello everyone, new guy here. I'm trying to solve problem I'm having with Dish bonus view channels. When I'm watching the bonus view channels then I switch back to regular dish channels, after few minutes the screen flips to black and after 30 seconds flips back to regular channels and continues to flip back and forth until I turn off TV. After I wait 30 minutes and turn back on , I can use regular channels again. So, its after I switch from bonus view channels to regular dish channels the problem starts. Been trying to fix this for a month, but no luck
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
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dfergie
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Last reply · posted in What's Cooking?
We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so... :)
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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TRG
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Pork shoulder, refried beans, cheddar and chopped green chile burrito with a pint of pale ale.

Its nice being able to have a pint with lunch during the week or whenever. I've been enjoying the retired life. 🍺

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Pork shoulder, refried beans, cheddar and chopped green chile burrito with a pint of pale ale.

Its nice being able to have a pint with lunch during the week or whenever. I've been enjoying the retired life. 🍺

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Congrats! I love retirement, no wake ups, no e-mails...
Leftovers for lunch, bacon wrapped salmon fillet from Saturday and a KFC thigh from Friday, Tea.
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Congrats! I love retirement, no wake ups, no e-mails...
Leftovers for lunch, bacon wrapped salmon fillet from Saturday and a KFC thigh from Friday, Tea.
I've been retired since October. It was very strange at first. But I'm loving it now.
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Creamy flat chicken enchiladas with green chile, beans and rice.

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Layered Spicy Dorito / chili cheese Frito pie casserole…real sugar Pepsi
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I had a very unusual but delicious 1/4lb hotdog with cream cheese, raspberry preserves and chopped Hatch green chile. It is an unlikely combination but it works.


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N5XZS
Last reply · posted in Over the Air Television By RabbitEars.Info
New low power station has been granted by the FCC and the new call leter is K33OB-D on RF ch. 33.

Will run at 15 KW ERP, this one runs from the Westside same location as KWPL-LD a HC2 owned station.

It's going to be aimed at eastern part of Albuquerque, so it's tightly focused beam pattern.

This new station is owned by Digital Network and what kind of programmings is unkown at this time.😎
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N5XZS
Yeah, there are some diginets like Heartland, Retro, The Family Channel diginetworks that we already have here in this market and we don't need duplicates, but bring the new diginets on like the Rev'n, Karate Acton movies, different kind of music videos on the new station. :hatsoff2
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comfortably_numb
Yeah, there are some diginets like Heartland, Retro, The Family Channel diginetworks that we already have here in this market and we don't need duplicates, but bring the new diginets like Revn, Karate Acton movies, different kind of music videos on the new station. :hatsoff2

I watch MovieSphere Gold channel a lot. Many recent movies on that digitnet :)
N5XZS
Yes that's a good channel MovieSphere, only thing is the missing CC on it. :rolleyes: :hatsoff2
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According to the FCC listing, the tower is near I-40 and Juan Tabo:

primestar31
According to the FCC listing, the tower is near I-40 and Juan Tabo:

Many of these in my DMA are on cell towers, so don't always reach very far because the towers aren't very high.
zippyfrog
Pub Member / Supporter Lifetime Supporter
Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
Did anyone have a price increase today on their equipment? I own my VIP211k's, and they have been $5.00. My bill that I received last week shows the "add-ons" as being $5.00. However, I just logged into my Dish account, and my "add-ons" are now $10.00. Did the additional receivers go up by $5.00 recently?

As I mentioned, my last bill shows $5.00 and under the notes, nothing is mentioned about a price increase.
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zippyfrog
However, when I make a change (tried to add the Columbian pack for $2 so I could generate my bill) and there is a new line - it says "Access for TV" - whereas previously that line item was not there. I hope they aren't charging $5.00 for the initial TV now...

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Apparently it's not an "owned receiver" fee but rather an extension fee that's applied to 2nd and subsequent viewing. Maybe that played into their decision to force a box at every TV- garnering those fees
zippyfrog
Apparently it's not an "owned receiver" fee but rather an extension fee that's applied to 2nd and subsequent viewing. Maybe that played into their decision to force a box at every TV- garnering those fees
Possibly. In theory, $9 of the base pack has a rental fee built in. But now is this $5 a chance to get a little more? I don't know for sure. According to chat, it is a glitch and will be resolved in a timely manner, but we shall see. Part of my thinks there is a going to be a new charge, whether it is now or this fall. Here in Illinois, the law requires we are given 30 days notice of any fee changes, but I have not been given anything.

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MikeD-C05
These fees are why streaming has caught on so well across the country and DISH is losing subs each quarter. Soon won't be enough subs to be profitable.
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Does cable charge box rent?
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Bruce
Supporting Founder Lifetime Supporter
Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
With the 1st Quarter Report just released, Dish lost another 180,000, now at 4.84 Million.

Sling now at 1.79 million subscribers, down approximately 190,000.

For comparison, YouTube TV now has about double the subscribers of Dish and Sling combined.

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fmj77
I'm surprised Dish still has that many subscribers. I don't know a single person in my area that is still with them after getting either Starlink or fiber at their home. They all cancelled Dish and went with streaming. I used to get offers pretty regularly in the mail to come back to Dish, but no more. Haven't seen one in a couple of years now.
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Bruce
I'm surprised Dish still has that many subscribers. I don't know a single person in my area that is still with them after getting either Starlink or fiber at their home. They all cancelled Dish and went with streaming. I used to get offers pretty regularly in the mail to come back to Dish, but no more. Haven't seen one in a couple of years now.
Only about 3.6% of Households in the United States, still have Dish Network.

For comparison, YouTube TV has about 10%.
Y
$25 a month for 1 gig, for two years with Spectrum. I'd be darned that their router was MUCH better than AT&T's. I didn't realize that what I thought was something else was the bloody router. Those buffering issues stopped when I swapped... after AT&T refused to lower my bill, after 25 years of high speed internet service. They wanted $80 or so a month for 1 gig, with no drop to a lower speed.
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I despise that most of all. I'm going to talk to a remote?
T
$25 a month for 1 gig, for two years with Spectrum. I'd be darned that their router was MUCH better than AT&T's. I didn't realize that what I thought was something else was the bloody router. Those buffering issues stopped when I swapped... after AT&T refused to lower my bill, after 25 years of high speed internet service. They wanted $80 or so a month for 1 gig, with no drop to a lower speed.


1gbit up and down here from att start out great was suppose to be $60 for life of service, with years time it went back up to $80 I complained about they gave us $49 for year which about to end, I Wonder what prices will be when it "up" I in no way like ATT fiber service there DNS that are hardcode and unchange able in the router are some WORSE DNS I ever used. you know how much of pain it is to change DNS setting on EVERY single wireless device...
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mwdxer1
Only about 3.6% of Households in the United States, still have Dish Network.

For comparison, YouTube TV has about 10%.
I dropped Dish a couple years back after having them for 25 years. The pricing got higher and after we got high speed internet, I watched it less and less. It got to the point all I watched was TCM for classic movies. Many of them are on You Tube now and a Premium subscription is $14 a month. A far cry of the $100 a month was paying with AT180, Supers, and locals. I get locals OTA anyway. I took down the dish several months ago and tossed it. I owned all my my equipment, so nothing to return. Do I miss a traditional cable type service? No way. If I want one I have all of the free live streaming with Roku, the Fire Stick, as well as Google TV. Right now as I type this, I am watching episodes of "The Midnight Special" from 1976 on You Tube, ad free. Dish was fine for many years. I do not regret buying the equipment and installing it myself (No installers in 1999). I enjoyed Dish for many years. My thoughts, Dish & Direct will be forced to merge in time, or they both will be gone. Even cable companies are getting out of TV. Some are only selling the internet and phone packages.
tanman
I despise that most of all. I'm going to talk to a remote?
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nelson61
A lot of it flows back to the 4 big networks.
Cable and satellite are their money tree.

But, in reality, each market need 1 or perhaps 2 news feeds - not 4 or more
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MikeD-C05
A lot of it flows back to the 4 big networks.
Cable and satellite are their money tree.

But, in reality, each market need 1 or perhaps 2 news feeds - not 4 or more
In my area we get 2 news feeds spread over 4 local stations.
ABC/NBC (TEGNA)
Same news cast simulcast over both channels.

CBS/Fox (Sinclair)
Same news casters at 5pm, 6pm, 10pm.
Fox shows an hour at 9pm but same news casters.
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