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The below is from Syed's( Outernet ) Blog post this morning: http://blog.outernet.is/lantern-update/
Lantern Update from Syed Karim, Outernet CEO
30 September 2015 on Lantern
tldr: Yes, we're late--and very sorry about it, but we're still hard at work and making steady progress. We hope that you agree with us that the results will be well worth the wait and we very deeply appreciate your patience and support. Although delivering Lantern consists of much more than just the physical device, you can see the final design of the main Lantern component on GitHub.
Sections:
To restate the obvious, yes, we are late. We are not proud of this fact and we are all working very hard to deliver your Lanterns as soon as humanly possibly. The only thing I can say is that making hardware is, well, hard.
Although Lantern can be simplified as just a couple of circuit boards inside of a plastic box, the reality is that there are quite a few moving pieces (some in space) to produce--even though nothing inside Lantern actually moves. In order for Lantern to function as more than just a solar-powered paperweight, we needed to tick off a fairly complicated laundry list of tasks, such as:
So, first things first:
We Were Unrealistic in Our Timeline
tldr: We have learned from our own campaign and from watching others; super conservative delivery timelines are better than overly optimistic ones.
I want to first give a little context for our IndieGoGo campaign. When we first posted the campaign we promised our initial backers delivery of Lantern in July 2015. As the campaign grew in popularity beyond our expectations, we pushed this back to August 2015, September, and then October--and so on. Looking back, we should have been much more conservative from the onset, as we had an incredible task list to complete in a half-year.
Take a look at the Nebia shower, a very popular Kickstarter campaign that grabbed numerous headlines this month. From the date their campaign closed on September 11, 2015 they promised their first backers a delivery date in May of 2016 - that's eight months later. By comparison, we estimated that the first Lanterns would begin shipping just seven months after our campaign closed.
Nebia also raised $3 million and sold over 10,000 shower heads on Kickstarter, meaning they can go into high volume production right away. While we far exceeded our initial IndieGoGo goal, we aren't yet large enough to capture the efficiencies of scale.
I point this out because it is an important lesson we have learned. While the development of a shower head may have relatively few dependencies and complexities, Nebia did a far better job than we did of setting a realistic timeline.
Although a fluid delivery schedule is part of the crowdfunding process, we certainly could have done a better job of estimating and communicating. I apologize to all of our backers for any frustration we have caused and sincerely appreciate the patience and continued support.
This is Where We Are Today
tldr: The core Lantern design has been open sourced (like 99% of what we produce) and added to GitHub.
The Lantern compute board, which is the heart of the device, went through a second and final design revision in August and September. The first iteration functioned as intended - which means that we successfully installed the firmware from Lighthouse onto the board - but there were a few power issues that needed to be addressed.
V1, as we refer to the board, comes complete with a DVB-S2 tuner, Wi-Fi module, and charging circuit for a lithium iron phosphate battery. It is derived from the Beaglebone Black and, like its older brother, is fully open source. You can find all of the project files on Github. A comprehensive description of the board will be added to the Outernet Wiki in the coming weeks.
Modified Industrial Design
tldr: Design revised to account for a single solar panel, larger antenna size, and better reception quality.
The design of Lantern has changed for a few reasons. Before I go into them, please have a look at the new design:
Lantern pictured in our IndieGoGo campaign:
Updated form factor of Lantern:
Dimensions (approx): 4" x 8.5" x 1.75". Please note that the color of the case is not finalized.
The first thing you might notice is the reduction of solar panel surface area. There are a few reasons for this:
1. We are on Earth, not Tatooine.
The original design had four solar panels at 90° from one another. As much as we all liked the design, it would only be truly useful on a planet with multiple sources of light. For use on Earth, this earlier design was overly complex and inefficient.
2. Antenna Size and Orientation.
The antenna for receiving Lantern's L-band signal is larger than we originally envisioned. The power available to us on the satellite ended is less than what we were hoping for. In order to compensate for a weaker signal, we needed to increase the surface area of the antenna.
3. Signal Interference.
Since solar panels are not RF transparent and would interfere with reception, we needed to move the panel completely out of the way of the larger antenna. We toyed with putting the antenna on the opposite side of the panel, but this option would not allow for simultaneous charging and reception. We also experimented with a folding design, but field experience in developing countries--where spare parts are rare--reinforced simplicity in product design.
Flexible (and increased) Content Delivery
tldr: Silver lining of our delay: the ability to occasionally increase data over 10 MB per day.
The delay in Lantern production from our target date has led to one very important and significant improvement. Instead of offering a fixed 10 MB per day that we gradually increase over time, we will now be able to variably increase the total amount of content delivered per day. For example, a global movie night where everyone votes on and receives a free movie for a Friday night? From the islands of Alaska to the bush in Australia, this is now possible.
Delivery Date
The ultimate question: When will you receive your Lantern?
Since I have been wrong about the ship date on more than one occasion, I would like to start under promising and over delivering, rather than the other way around. By the end of this month, we should have our first complete unit. From there we will produce 10 additional units and then another 50. These initial units will undergo user and performance testing. To keep you up-to-date with our progress, we will update you with testing results and videos of field performance.
By the end of November, we should have received all of the components that are necessary for larger production runs. If all prototype hardware performs without problems, then our target is to ship all Lanterns that are subsequently produced. At first this will be small runs of 10, 50, and 100 at a time, with manual quality assurance and testing. Once the assembly process has been optimized and automated testing is in place, production runs will increase to 1000, 5000, and 10,000 units.
--
What we're building here is more than just a physical product; we're realizing the notion that information access is a fundamental human right. The delivery of Lantern, and with it, the ability to receive the Outernet service, fulfills not only your order, but our promise to build Humanity's Public Library.
You backed Outernet, which allows us to offer everyone in the world a basic level of news, information, and education. We thank you for that, as well as your continued patience.
Again, I apologize for the delay in delivering your Lantern.
Better Communication
The team and I apologize that we have not been the best at communicating the progress of the project. From here on out, we pledge to provide biweekly updates, even if the update isn't particularly interesting.
In the meantime, if you have questions, you can reach us at "hello at outernet.is". Please allow us some time to respond, as our small team receives a large volume of email on a daily basis.
If you'd like to ask me questions directly, please join my AMA (Ask Me Anything) on October 6, 2015 at 11AM Chicago time (CST): https://www.reddit.com/r/ama. If you have never participated in an AMA before, I suggest visiting the link in advance and joining another AMA. Don't worry, they are very easy to join.
Most Sincerely,
Syed Karim
Syed Karim
Founder and CEO of Outernet.
Chicago, IL http://outernet.is
Lantern Update from Syed Karim, Outernet CEO
30 September 2015 on Lantern
tldr: Yes, we're late--and very sorry about it, but we're still hard at work and making steady progress. We hope that you agree with us that the results will be well worth the wait and we very deeply appreciate your patience and support. Although delivering Lantern consists of much more than just the physical device, you can see the final design of the main Lantern component on GitHub.
Sections:
- Unrealistic Timeline
- This is Where We are Today
- Improved Look of Lantern
- Flexible (and Increased) Content Delivery
- Delivery Date
- Better Communication
To restate the obvious, yes, we are late. We are not proud of this fact and we are all working very hard to deliver your Lanterns as soon as humanly possibly. The only thing I can say is that making hardware is, well, hard.
Although Lantern can be simplified as just a couple of circuit boards inside of a plastic box, the reality is that there are quite a few moving pieces (some in space) to produce--even though nothing inside Lantern actually moves. In order for Lantern to function as more than just a solar-powered paperweight, we needed to tick off a fairly complicated laundry list of tasks, such as:
- acquiring satellite capacity (done)
- sending content streams to various teleports (done)
- fine-tuning broadcast servers and data carousels (done)
- locating a very specialized antenna (done)
- developing a high bitrate and low bitrate datacasting client (done)
- delivering global data delivery over DVB-S
- creating custom firmware (90% done)
- selecting a contract manufacturer (90% done)
- designing an end user interface (continuously improving)
- building a suitable plastic enclosure (99%)
So, first things first:
We Were Unrealistic in Our Timeline
tldr: We have learned from our own campaign and from watching others; super conservative delivery timelines are better than overly optimistic ones.
I want to first give a little context for our IndieGoGo campaign. When we first posted the campaign we promised our initial backers delivery of Lantern in July 2015. As the campaign grew in popularity beyond our expectations, we pushed this back to August 2015, September, and then October--and so on. Looking back, we should have been much more conservative from the onset, as we had an incredible task list to complete in a half-year.
Take a look at the Nebia shower, a very popular Kickstarter campaign that grabbed numerous headlines this month. From the date their campaign closed on September 11, 2015 they promised their first backers a delivery date in May of 2016 - that's eight months later. By comparison, we estimated that the first Lanterns would begin shipping just seven months after our campaign closed.
Nebia also raised $3 million and sold over 10,000 shower heads on Kickstarter, meaning they can go into high volume production right away. While we far exceeded our initial IndieGoGo goal, we aren't yet large enough to capture the efficiencies of scale.
I point this out because it is an important lesson we have learned. While the development of a shower head may have relatively few dependencies and complexities, Nebia did a far better job than we did of setting a realistic timeline.
Although a fluid delivery schedule is part of the crowdfunding process, we certainly could have done a better job of estimating and communicating. I apologize to all of our backers for any frustration we have caused and sincerely appreciate the patience and continued support.
This is Where We Are Today
tldr: The core Lantern design has been open sourced (like 99% of what we produce) and added to GitHub.
The Lantern compute board, which is the heart of the device, went through a second and final design revision in August and September. The first iteration functioned as intended - which means that we successfully installed the firmware from Lighthouse onto the board - but there were a few power issues that needed to be addressed.
V1, as we refer to the board, comes complete with a DVB-S2 tuner, Wi-Fi module, and charging circuit for a lithium iron phosphate battery. It is derived from the Beaglebone Black and, like its older brother, is fully open source. You can find all of the project files on Github. A comprehensive description of the board will be added to the Outernet Wiki in the coming weeks.
Modified Industrial Design
tldr: Design revised to account for a single solar panel, larger antenna size, and better reception quality.
The design of Lantern has changed for a few reasons. Before I go into them, please have a look at the new design:
Lantern pictured in our IndieGoGo campaign:
Updated form factor of Lantern:
Dimensions (approx): 4" x 8.5" x 1.75". Please note that the color of the case is not finalized.
The first thing you might notice is the reduction of solar panel surface area. There are a few reasons for this:
1. We are on Earth, not Tatooine.
2. Antenna Size and Orientation.
3. Signal Interference.
Since solar panels are not RF transparent and would interfere with reception, we needed to move the panel completely out of the way of the larger antenna. We toyed with putting the antenna on the opposite side of the panel, but this option would not allow for simultaneous charging and reception. We also experimented with a folding design, but field experience in developing countries--where spare parts are rare--reinforced simplicity in product design.
Flexible (and increased) Content Delivery
tldr: Silver lining of our delay: the ability to occasionally increase data over 10 MB per day.
The delay in Lantern production from our target date has led to one very important and significant improvement. Instead of offering a fixed 10 MB per day that we gradually increase over time, we will now be able to variably increase the total amount of content delivered per day. For example, a global movie night where everyone votes on and receives a free movie for a Friday night? From the islands of Alaska to the bush in Australia, this is now possible.
Delivery Date
The ultimate question: When will you receive your Lantern?
Since I have been wrong about the ship date on more than one occasion, I would like to start under promising and over delivering, rather than the other way around. By the end of this month, we should have our first complete unit. From there we will produce 10 additional units and then another 50. These initial units will undergo user and performance testing. To keep you up-to-date with our progress, we will update you with testing results and videos of field performance.
By the end of November, we should have received all of the components that are necessary for larger production runs. If all prototype hardware performs without problems, then our target is to ship all Lanterns that are subsequently produced. At first this will be small runs of 10, 50, and 100 at a time, with manual quality assurance and testing. Once the assembly process has been optimized and automated testing is in place, production runs will increase to 1000, 5000, and 10,000 units.
--
What we're building here is more than just a physical product; we're realizing the notion that information access is a fundamental human right. The delivery of Lantern, and with it, the ability to receive the Outernet service, fulfills not only your order, but our promise to build Humanity's Public Library.
You backed Outernet, which allows us to offer everyone in the world a basic level of news, information, and education. We thank you for that, as well as your continued patience.
Again, I apologize for the delay in delivering your Lantern.
Better Communication
The team and I apologize that we have not been the best at communicating the progress of the project. From here on out, we pledge to provide biweekly updates, even if the update isn't particularly interesting.
In the meantime, if you have questions, you can reach us at "hello at outernet.is". Please allow us some time to respond, as our small team receives a large volume of email on a daily basis.
If you'd like to ask me questions directly, please join my AMA (Ask Me Anything) on October 6, 2015 at 11AM Chicago time (CST): https://www.reddit.com/r/ama. If you have never participated in an AMA before, I suggest visiting the link in advance and joining another AMA. Don't worry, they are very easy to join.
Most Sincerely,
Syed Karim
Syed Karim
Founder and CEO of Outernet.
Chicago, IL http://outernet.is
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So I have recently setup Indoor OTA due to drop to Local from Dish, and found out reason why I have such bad signal is my Monitor now none of cable for my monitor near OTA or it cable going to TV, but the TV right above my Monitor maybe not even a foot.
If i have 3 to 2 bars with monitor off said channel for most part of perfectly watchable, but as soon my monitor is ON (show image of desktop or what ever) OTA going to TV halved that 3 to 2 bars become 1 and 2 if I lucky and channels start scrambling alot, and depending on what is being shown on monitor it might out right give no signal, and I can easily restore singal to being bad if change what show on monitor or bring back 3 to 2 bars if I turn monitor off or let it to to standby mode.
I have already disconnect every cable on TV except the OTA cable leaving just that so it not those cable. the Power cable for monitor and DP to DVI cable the monitor is using no where near that OTA cable either.
Any idea on how to fix this? moving my monitor isnt exactly an option neither is moving the tv and moving the OTA to other side room even with long cable dont fix this issue.
I have one those Leaf MoHu antennas 11x3 ones, I had same issue with one gateway mohu antennas the older one too
If i have 3 to 2 bars with monitor off said channel for most part of perfectly watchable, but as soon my monitor is ON (show image of desktop or what ever) OTA going to TV halved that 3 to 2 bars become 1 and 2 if I lucky and channels start scrambling alot, and depending on what is being shown on monitor it might out right give no signal, and I can easily restore singal to being bad if change what show on monitor or bring back 3 to 2 bars if I turn monitor off or let it to to standby mode.
I have already disconnect every cable on TV except the OTA cable leaving just that so it not those cable. the Power cable for monitor and DP to DVI cable the monitor is using no where near that OTA cable either.
Any idea on how to fix this? moving my monitor isnt exactly an option neither is moving the tv and moving the OTA to other side room even with long cable dont fix this issue.
I have one those Leaf MoHu antennas 11x3 ones, I had same issue with one gateway mohu antennas the older one too
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Do you have any splitters or combiners in between the antenna and TV? That can cause issues, especially indoors.
I would get that antenna into the attic or outside if at all possible.
And we need your Rabbitears reception report to really be able to provide answers specific to your location-
www.rabbitears.info
I would get that antenna into the attic or outside if at all possible.
And we need your Rabbitears reception report to really be able to provide answers specific to your location-
RabbitEars.Info
RabbitEars, where you can learn all about local, over-the-air TV channels.
www.rabbitears.info
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I get I just need to short out the monitor from kill the signal to the tv cause the monitor being on and show image basically castrates signal
I just moved wires around moved power cord away data cord and what not, and some made this issue worse just have my monitor on and show image was enough to just kill signal, I went and moved monitors data cable DP to DVI cable and it came back even if was still spotty at best, now I think it DP to DVI cable I using considering moving seem maninpulate how bad the signal that cable is still no where near OTA cable or any cables going to the tv, the tv and monitor are on the same surge protector though
no spilter is just for my tvDo you have any splitters or combiners in between the antenna and TV? That can cause issues, especially indoors.
I would get that antenna into the attic or outside if at all possible.
And we need your Rabbitears reception report to really be able to provide answers specific to your location-
RabbitEars.Info
RabbitEars, where you can learn all about local, over-the-air TV channels.
I get I just need to short out the monitor from kill the signal to the tv cause the monitor being on and show image basically castrates signal
I just moved wires around moved power cord away data cord and what not, and some made this issue worse just have my monitor on and show image was enough to just kill signal, I went and moved monitors data cable DP to DVI cable and it came back even if was still spotty at best, now I think it DP to DVI cable I using considering moving seem maninpulate how bad the signal that cable is still no where near OTA cable or any cables going to the tv, the tv and monitor are on the same surge protector though
Well, it's grounded up to the Surge Protector anyways ... but if not 3rd prong, it's not grounded ... I don't recall if my TV's have a ground, guess I never thought about it ...
Now ya got me curious, I got to check.
Well, thats interesting, I thought all TV's were grounded ... guess not, maybe they figure if the voltage gets that far, its not going to save the TV ...
get rid of the monitor and plug the computer into the tv and use it as the monitor 
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.
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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The 'get after it media' stations
www.getafteritmedia.com
Like Heartland, Retro, rev'n, Action etc
probably the same programming they have been putting on their other owned stations.
The 'get after it media' stations
Get After It Media
www.getafteritmedia.com
Thanks Mr Tony, Hopefully no duplicates and put on like Revin, Karate movies.
It would be nice if they can put a least 2 HD 2 or 3 SD diginets for Albuquerque metro areas.
It would be nice if they can put a least 2 HD 2 or 3 SD diginets for Albuquerque metro areas.
Hope they got good subchannels encoder going there...
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Can't wait!
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I was pretty satisfied by the Finale as well. So many multi-season shows come up short, but this one was well done. The whole season has had a pretty high body count (including some of the executive producers
) so the tombstone seemed quite appropriate.
Hopefully the Gen V show sticks around a few more seasons.
) so the tombstone seemed quite appropriate.Hopefully the Gen V show sticks around a few more seasons.
I was pretty satisfied by the Finale as well. So many multi-season shows come up short, but this one was well done. The whole season has had a pretty high body count (including some of the executive producers
Hopefully the Gen V show sticks around a few more seasons.
Gen V was cancelled already. The story of The Boys is over, it's on to the prequel now.
All that buildup in their series and they were called useless, retconned and sidelined in the finale.
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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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Over the past year I have been tracking the changes on Western Arc. The past 3 months have had a lot of changes that I posted in the other MPEG2 Western Arc shutdown thread. Now that 129 is (basically) out of commission, here is where Western Arc stands. This is just a national channel list, (no local channels) based off what I can see and what others have contributed. Thanks to everyone who has helped me come up with the locations of some of the channels – I would try and list all of you out, but I know I would forget someone! As has been suggested in other parts of the forum, it would be great to collect the spotbeam data for those who could contribute!
A couple of pieces of info:
When I talk about number of channels on a transponder, all my numbers are unique channels – for example, channel 101 and 199 are the same channel mapped to two different numbers, but in terms of space, only takes up 1 channel worth of bandwidth on the transponder.
Finally, I have to give Dish a ton of credit. When it was 110/119/129, Dish had 82 transponders they were using – it took a lot to get it down to 50 transponders and figure out where all the pieces were going to go. What are the things they did to get there? Here are the things I saw:
A couple of pieces of info:
- Out of the 64 transponders between 110/119, there are currently 50 transponders that Dish is licensed to use. 22 are Spotbeams, 28 are ConUS transponders (14 transponders are licensed to DirecTV and Dish doesn't have access to them)
- Those 28 ConUS transponders are divided as follows:
- 10 are dedicated to National HD channels (ESPN, CNN, Disney Channel, etc). Dish is maxing out at 16 HD channels per transponder (note – in an earlier post I said there was one transponder with 17 HD channels, that was an error on my part. When I double checked my listings, one channel changed transponders). Before the transition, there was a maximum of 14 HD channels per transponder.
- 1 transponder is dedicated to adult content
- 2 are a mixture HD PPV Movies/4k channels
- 3 are set aside for HD Sports channels that are only on for live games (NBA League Pass, the PAC 12 alternate channels, some PPV events, etc); 3 SD PPV Sports Channels are there as well.
- 7 are for SD and/or music channels. Dish is maxing out at 26 SD channels per transponder thus far on the SD transponders.
- 5 transponders on 110 I have no channels listed but Dish operates. (they are labeled as ConUS on my chart below) There are other things that could be on those transponders, like RV Distant Networks, internal testing channels, etc, that I can't see. They might be able to be used for additional content, but I am not sure exactly what is on those transponders.
When I talk about number of channels on a transponder, all my numbers are unique channels – for example, channel 101 and 199 are the same channel mapped to two different numbers, but in terms of space, only takes up 1 channel worth of bandwidth on the transponder.
Finally, I have to give Dish a ton of credit. When it was 110/119/129, Dish had 82 transponders they were using – it took a lot to get it down to 50 transponders and figure out where all the pieces were going to go. What are the things they did to get there? Here are the things I saw:
- During this migration from 129, Dish converted 7 ConUS transponders on 119 into Spotbeams – that is how they ended up fitting on all the HD locals that used to be on 129. (for those interested, TP 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 are the ones that used to be ConUS on 119 that are now Spotbeam)
- Removed almost all SD duplicate channels that are offered in HD
- Converted remaining SD channels from MPEG2 to MPEG4
- There are also 2 subtle things that changed from the HD channel perspective
- At the beginning of the transition, Dish decreased the number of PPV Movie channels – prior to this transition the PPV channels HD PPV movies were 502-522; now they are 502-517.
- At the beginning of April when MLB, NBA, and NHL regular seasons were all going on at the same time and this transition began, there were a ton of games "joined in progress" for the HD feeds. That wasn't common since the days before the full time HD RSN's. The reason for that was prior to the transition, Dish had 4 transponders set aside for HD Sports – 2 transponders was the bandwidth set aside from the HD RSN's before Dish dropped the RSN's, then 2 transponders were for alternate channels. Now we are down to 3 transponders for HD sports.
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As you may have noticed we are doing a Fund Raiser for SatelliteGuys!
As many of you know I have been paying for a majority of the operation of the site out of my own pocket for awhile now. Now looking at things we have a number of renewals coming up that I could use some help with. These renewals include the license renewal for our Forum Software, Renewal of a number of our add on's the site uses, renewal of domain names etc.
I have set a goal of $400.00 - any extra that comes in will just go to fund the operations of the site. None of the money will go to me (I tried BuyMeACoffee a few months ago, and they denied me saying they do not do business with Satellite Piracy sites... which we are not... hell we host the beta programs for both DISH and DIRECTV here...)
Anyways... if you would like to help out please click the link below.
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As many of you know I have been paying for a majority of the operation of the site out of my own pocket for awhile now. Now looking at things we have a number of renewals coming up that I could use some help with. These renewals include the license renewal for our Forum Software, Renewal of a number of our add on's the site uses, renewal of domain names etc.
I have set a goal of $400.00 - any extra that comes in will just go to fund the operations of the site. None of the money will go to me (I tried BuyMeACoffee a few months ago, and they denied me saying they do not do business with Satellite Piracy sites... which we are not... hell we host the beta programs for both DISH and DIRECTV here...)
Anyways... if you would like to help out please click the link below.
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I planned on removing it today, but then my fathers car broke down and I had to drive him all around to get his stuff done. Then I had a doctors appointment after that which was annoying...
Dr asks me if I have had any changes, so I tell him something wrong with me that started a month or so ago and his reply back is, that it sucks to get old... I hate that. Why ask me. if your going to come back with a smart ass answer.
Anyays I hope to get rid of Tapatalk tomorrow.
And we had more people donate today, thank you! The extra money is going to future expenses since things like add ons don't expire at the same time.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU AGAIN!
Dr asks me if I have had any changes, so I tell him something wrong with me that started a month or so ago and his reply back is, that it sucks to get old... I hate that. Why ask me. if your going to come back with a smart ass answer.
Anyays I hope to get rid of Tapatalk tomorrow.
And we had more people donate today, thank you! The extra money is going to future expenses since things like add ons don't expire at the same time.
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Anyays I hope to get rid of Tapatalk tomorrow.
Tapatalk has been removed.
I have added a new feature which is a work in progress called "Social Feed" which displays the forums Facebook style. Its nice for people who like that, but needs work. But i have been watching this one for awhile and the author is being really responsive to suggestions and adding them. So if you have any please let me know and I can pass them along.
I have added a new feature which is a work in progress called "Social Feed" which displays the forums Facebook style. Its nice for people who like that, but needs work. But i have been watching this one for awhile and the author is being really responsive to suggestions and adding them. So if you have any please let me know and I can pass them along.
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Due to security concerns and the fact that the Tapatalk Plugin for Xenforo is no longer being updated we have removed Tapatalk support from SatelliteGuys.
For those who were using it we recommend using our PWA App instead which is faster and does not have all the spam Tapatalk had. Below is a graphic showing how to add SatelliteGuys to your devices home screen. (While iOS is shown the process is mostly the same for Android.)
Thanks for your understanding.
For those who were using it we recommend using our PWA App instead which is faster and does not have all the spam Tapatalk had. Below is a graphic showing how to add SatelliteGuys to your devices home screen. (While iOS is shown the process is mostly the same for Android.)
Thanks for your understanding.
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View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CnpUUseH5N0
Direct YouTube Link - Siri's NEW features...
The official iJustine Website's Website
Buy her book!
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