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Hello and welcome to May! With the new month comes a number of changes here at SatelliteGuys, so I wanted to take a few moments and tell you all about them.

First up, I am so excited to announced that we have relaunched SatelliteGuys Radio! The NEW SatelliteGuys Radio features a new format we call "The 80's Wayback Time Machine" and features the best music from the 80's as well as member produced shows and specials!

Why the 80's? Well the 80's Channel on SiriusXM is SiriusXM's most popular channel. SatelliteGuys Radio features more music, and in my opinion sounds better then the SiriusXM Big 80's channel! Give it a listen yourself! Plus unlike SiriusXM you can also make requests via our website and have them played for you on SatelliteGuys Radio! Best part is SatelliteGuys Radio is FREE! In addition we have apps so you can listen on your iPhone, iPad, Android Device, Blackberry Device, Windows Phones and we even have our own Roku Channel!

It should be noted that all expenses for the new SatelliteGuys Radio have come out of my own pocket and NOT out of the SatelliteGuys Operation Fund. This includes our new radio automation software, StationPlayList. This new software allows us to do amazing things and gives us that real radio sound! In addition I have purchase a bunch or professionally made bumpers, sweepers and promos. This imaging we done by Jake and Dana Sommers who do work for real radio stations around the country! After you hear their work you will agree on how good their work has made SatelliteGuys Radio sound.

SatelliteGuys Radio gives our members another platform to express themselves, and with the new software we have the ability to broadcast live on a moments notice, so if major industry news breaks we can break into the music and report it. We also have the ability to host talk shows like we do for Satellite Nation. I have shown a number of friends who work in radio our new setup and I have been told what we have is better then what they have to use.

SatelliteGuys Radio is currently commercial free, but we do plan on adding up to 3 minutes of advertising an hour in the future. The reason for this is a station like this has a lot of expenses, we have to pay our streaming host for our streams, we have to pay licensing and royalties on all music we play, we have to pay to obtain our music and we need to pay for the on going updates to our imaging with new bumpers, sweepers and promos. When we do add commercials, they will be all lumped together so that you will have 57 minutes without commercials interruptions each hour.

Remember SatelliteGuys Radio is Listener Powered, so if you want to DJ on the 80's Wayback Time Machine or host your own show with your own music or do a talk show please let us know!

In other news SatelliteGuys has partnered with Panjo Marketplace to expand and upgrade our classified section here at SatelliteGuys! All members may now place ads in our classifieds section, the cost to do this is a $2.99 Listing Fee plus a 2.5% commision fee on the total sale. However if you are a supporting Pub Member the cost to place an ad i s FREE, there is no listing fee nor is there any commission fee! (Plus for the month of May we are waiving the $2.99 listing fee for all members!) For more details and a listing of many of the new features please CLICK HERE.

Starting today (May 1st) registered members will no longer be allowed to have a signature in their posts. This is now a Pub Member only feature. As a perk Pub Members are now allowed to post their referral information and codes for DISH and DIRECTV referrals! (For some DISH customers this could help you get a free iPad Mini!) We have run a script that was supposed to remove all the signatures from our registered members but it didn't get them all. SatelliteGuys staff will be removing signatures from non Pub Members as they see them.

Later today we will be launching a "Help Wanted" forum in our Installers Zone forum. In this forum companies seeking employees may post their ads in there. Note however the only members who will be able to post in that forum will be those who are supporting Pub Members. The costs of placing ads in other mediums is a lot higher than a one year Pub Membership... and in addition you know your ad is reaching your target audience. Ultimately we are helping you and you are helping us, thank you!

On to another topic and one I hate talking about and that is money. For registered members you might have noticed a small blue "Be A Pub Member" triangle in the lower right corner of your screen. In addition if you are a registered member and are using a Ad Blocker you might have noticed a scrolling nag asking you to please turn off your ad blocker or to become a Pub member. The reason for that is we pay for our bandwidth here at SatelliteGuys, and our site is hosted on our 3 dedicated servers which are located at what is considered one of America's Best hosts. In addition SatelliteGuys pays to use CDN servers so that static files such as images, java script and css files are served to you by one of 12 CDN servers located around the country. When you load these static files they come to you from the closest CDN server to your location. This helps speed up SatelliteGuys and makes it faster for you! Of course all of this comes at a price, and unfortunately our ad revenue is down almost 70% from this time last year yet our traffic has remained about the same.

Without trying to sound mean we run SatelliteGuys as a service to you, every time you visit us it costs us money and if you are using an ad blocker it robs us of revenue which we need to pay our bills. We get it.. we hate ads too! We have worked hard to make sure the ads you see as a logged in member do not slow down your SatelliteGuys Experience, that we show you safe ads, ads that don't refresh, ads that don't automatically play audio and we make sure we have no ads that have popups or popunders. Because of this we ask you to PLEASE consider disabling your ad blocker, or better yet become a SatelliteGuys Pub Member! If more people disabled their ad blockers then we could actually lower the number of ads we show. We are not in this to become millionaires, we are doing this because we love helping others with this amazing technology!

I have created a brand new webpage which explains to you all the benefits you get as a SatelliteGuys Pub Member, you can check it out at http://www.satelliteguys.us/index.php?pageid=pubinfo please take a moment and check it out.

If you have learned something or saved money because of SatelliteGuys then again please consider becoming a SatelliteGuys Pub Member!

As always if you have any suggestions on how we can make SatelliteGuys better we are all ears! SatelliteGuys was built on listening to our members!

Thank you for your time, your support and most importantly for being a member of SatelliteGuys!

Scott