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Most recent pic of the finished FTA project started in June and completed two weeks ago.
With added support in case of 60-70+ high winds added recently.
This is a better pic to show the LNB and dish heater taken before the added support was installed.
I installed these pieces of framing lumber to the other framing joists in the attic for the best roof mount I could come up with. It was blazing hot in the attic, and about did myself in from the heat.
I use the Manhattan RS-1933 Receiver
My Dish Farm includes the very active Directv Dish with dish heater.
The dish farm includes the since disconnected Dish Network antenna. But it could be reconnected if needed.
Above the satellite receivers and near the HDTV is this warning:
On the Directv 11 Satellite 99.2W recently, I came across a much sought after channel from Japan NHK World!
It is pretty cool getting all the news, weather (including U.S. weather) and lots of other very interesting stuff all from Japan in perfect english with subtitles in some cases. I watch this all the time now, it's so fascinating to watch. I hope I might get some channels from England or France this Fall or Winter when the leaves come off the big tall trees. I hope I don't lose this channel anytime soon!
Hello, I'm Chris Cromwell, I am new to the forum; this being my first official thread post. I became reacquainted with FTA early this past spring, by Google searching and visiting numerous sites, including this one to gather all the research I could. Once I found out all of the channels I could get on up to 100 different satellites, I wanted to get them all! By May or early June, I was ready to buy the items I knew I wanted to get started, including the dish motor. I made numerous calls to different vendors like Skyvision & The Satellite Shop. I took a 3 day weekend off of work driving a semi-truck when I was ready to get started on the project. The biggest aggravation was not being able to see or hear the satellite signals coming in. I finally resorted to many trips in and out of the upstairs window with extension cords, TV, cable, receiver, etc.. After I got everything hooked up on the roof, it was a quick 10-12 minute find to lock on to my southern most satellite 87W, and the first image I got was the Echostar Test Card interestingly. By that time is was getting pretty dark and my wife wanted me off the roof. Later that same evening, I shocked my wife when I asked her if she would like to watch football from Kuwait! The second worst aggravation that took up most of that weekend was trying to get the correct story on what the elevation is supposed to be set to on the motor. I finally got the correct answer on Youtube from Sadoun Satellite Sales, geeze....it was beginning to look like top secret information there for awhile!! Anyway, I did spend the next several weekends after that, to locate every Ku satellite and channel that I could, and improving the roof mount for added winds during a severe storm. I can always get another dish and motor if the winds jacks it over hard or worse, but I can't very easily get another large section of roof. At this point I wanted to move on to the C-Band and learning some people getting C-Band on a 90cm dish. So I bought a Titanium C1-PLL LNB with the separate Conical Ring. I spent another weekend with the TV and receiver all on the roof, but I could only get 11% quality on the strongest C-Band satellite with a known good transponder, as my dish was too small. It is looking as though C-Band will not be in the cards for me sadly, as my wife told me we have enough satellite dishes on the roof; and doesn't want a 6 foot C-Band dish out by the side of the house for all the neighbors to see. I still think it would look pretty awesome, as our house is looking more like a TV station with 3 dishes on the roof. I told my wife I would name the TV station after her: WMAR TV 48 Martha TV! She isn't convinced. If anyone knows of any other way to bring in 1 or 2 strong C-Band satellites that carry most of the local TV stations, without another obvious looking dish, I would love to know! If it could be undetected or small, like a C-Band Mobile Dome Antenna, maybe I could get away with it being on the roof. Just wanted to give everyone some good positive happy news about my first successful FTA attempt and very happy to finally join the forums not to mention this wonderful new hobby. I am not entirely new to satellite installation however. In 2001, I installed my first Dish Network Satellite system on my Semi-truck where it remained mounted for a good several years. At the same time as well as afterwords, I installed Dish Network systems at my folks house in Colorado, and later on Kentucky where I live now. That was back before installation techs came to be, and you were pretty much on your own when you bought the Dish Network system off the shelf at Sears. This post is pretty long so I will end here, I hope to hear from some of you soon.
Chris.
With added support in case of 60-70+ high winds added recently.
This is a better pic to show the LNB and dish heater taken before the added support was installed.
I installed these pieces of framing lumber to the other framing joists in the attic for the best roof mount I could come up with. It was blazing hot in the attic, and about did myself in from the heat.
I use the Manhattan RS-1933 Receiver
My Dish Farm includes the very active Directv Dish with dish heater.
The dish farm includes the since disconnected Dish Network antenna. But it could be reconnected if needed.
Above the satellite receivers and near the HDTV is this warning:
On the Directv 11 Satellite 99.2W recently, I came across a much sought after channel from Japan NHK World!
It is pretty cool getting all the news, weather (including U.S. weather) and lots of other very interesting stuff all from Japan in perfect english with subtitles in some cases. I watch this all the time now, it's so fascinating to watch. I hope I might get some channels from England or France this Fall or Winter when the leaves come off the big tall trees. I hope I don't lose this channel anytime soon!
Hello, I'm Chris Cromwell, I am new to the forum; this being my first official thread post. I became reacquainted with FTA early this past spring, by Google searching and visiting numerous sites, including this one to gather all the research I could. Once I found out all of the channels I could get on up to 100 different satellites, I wanted to get them all! By May or early June, I was ready to buy the items I knew I wanted to get started, including the dish motor. I made numerous calls to different vendors like Skyvision & The Satellite Shop. I took a 3 day weekend off of work driving a semi-truck when I was ready to get started on the project. The biggest aggravation was not being able to see or hear the satellite signals coming in. I finally resorted to many trips in and out of the upstairs window with extension cords, TV, cable, receiver, etc.. After I got everything hooked up on the roof, it was a quick 10-12 minute find to lock on to my southern most satellite 87W, and the first image I got was the Echostar Test Card interestingly. By that time is was getting pretty dark and my wife wanted me off the roof. Later that same evening, I shocked my wife when I asked her if she would like to watch football from Kuwait! The second worst aggravation that took up most of that weekend was trying to get the correct story on what the elevation is supposed to be set to on the motor. I finally got the correct answer on Youtube from Sadoun Satellite Sales, geeze....it was beginning to look like top secret information there for awhile!! Anyway, I did spend the next several weekends after that, to locate every Ku satellite and channel that I could, and improving the roof mount for added winds during a severe storm. I can always get another dish and motor if the winds jacks it over hard or worse, but I can't very easily get another large section of roof. At this point I wanted to move on to the C-Band and learning some people getting C-Band on a 90cm dish. So I bought a Titanium C1-PLL LNB with the separate Conical Ring. I spent another weekend with the TV and receiver all on the roof, but I could only get 11% quality on the strongest C-Band satellite with a known good transponder, as my dish was too small. It is looking as though C-Band will not be in the cards for me sadly, as my wife told me we have enough satellite dishes on the roof; and doesn't want a 6 foot C-Band dish out by the side of the house for all the neighbors to see. I still think it would look pretty awesome, as our house is looking more like a TV station with 3 dishes on the roof. I told my wife I would name the TV station after her: WMAR TV 48 Martha TV! She isn't convinced. If anyone knows of any other way to bring in 1 or 2 strong C-Band satellites that carry most of the local TV stations, without another obvious looking dish, I would love to know! If it could be undetected or small, like a C-Band Mobile Dome Antenna, maybe I could get away with it being on the roof.
Just wanted to give everyone some good positive happy news about my first successful FTA attempt and very happy to finally join the forums not to mention this wonderful new hobby. I am not entirely new to satellite installation however. In 2001, I installed my first Dish Network Satellite system on my Semi-truck where it remained mounted for a good several years. At the same time as well as afterwords, I installed Dish Network systems at my folks house in Colorado, and later on Kentucky where I live now. That was back before installation techs came to be, and you were pretty much on your own when you bought the Dish Network system off the shelf at Sears. This post is pretty long so I will end here, I hope to hear from some of you soon. Chris.
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@DK Sat: thank you for the nice well wishes! I plan to post pics as I go on s new thread, that way it can be picked all apart easier. Lol! Very nice dish farm! You are living my satellite dish dreams, I would have guessed you had a small TV station going on. You have me daydreaming now to put up a 2nd C-Band 1.2M dish with the extra left over pole I bought. That should draw all kinds of excitement from my wife. ;-)
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I plan to post pics as I go on s new thread, that way it can be picked all apart easier. Lol! Very nice dish farm! You are living my satellite dish dreams, I would have guessed you had a small TV station going on. You have me daydreaming now to put up a 2nd C-Band 1.2M dish with the extra left over pole I bought. That should draw all kinds of excitement from my wife. ;-)Posted Via The FREE SatelliteGuys Reader App!
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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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Marques Brownlee
Time for another AWESOME video from Marques Brownlee!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scwlR0QHGOk
Direct YouTube Link - The NEW Tesla Roadster: My Honest Reaction
The official MKBHD Website!
The MKBHD Store
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scwlR0QHGOk
Direct YouTube Link - The NEW Tesla Roadster: My Honest Reaction
The official MKBHD Website!
The MKBHD Store
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iJustine
Time for another AWESOME video from iJustine!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m44iKsdN1-Q
Direct YouTube Link - NVIDIA RTX Spark launch party!!!
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m44iKsdN1-Q
Direct YouTube Link - NVIDIA RTX Spark launch party!!!
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
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For quite a while now, people with a VIP211k have been losing their recordings on their activated external HDDs... even when there's nothing physically wrong with HDD. I believe this is an intentional and underhanded tactic that Dish is pulling in an attempt to force users away from the VIP211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
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Has anyone subscribed to NBA League Pass for 2026-27 and try to link their account to NBA.com to stream League Pass? I purchased it for 2026-27, and when I linked, I got a message saying success, but then I receive an error that my linked subscription does not include the preseason games for NBA League Pass. Is that how it has always been? I know satellite doesn't have the preseason games on the NBA League Pass channels, but I thought that I was able to stream the preseason once I linked my account on NBA.com?
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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
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.
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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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
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OMG to freaking funny
You're no fun.
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.
www.apple.com
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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.