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Purchased a Tripod Kit; DirectV SWim SL3S. Out the box, set it up, and had television. Perhaps it was pure luck.
Following season... can't get a signal. Had a Directv technician come to my backyard. Dish was slightly bent on rim. He replaced this with what looked like the same dish. He ALSO replaced the LNB. I THOUGHT it was the same type I had with the kit.
Today... trying to set up at tailgate and dish type is defaulting to something I haven't seen before and won't allow me to change. I never got it working.
Come home and tried in back yard. NOW dish type is changeable!
Using same dish, same receiver, same cables, same LNB.
What I now have is model 3D2RBLNBR0-14
Unfortunately I didn't write down what defaulted at the game. What I remember is
Dish Type: SL3 LNB
RB/INTL: can't remember what was here
Switch Type: remember something about 22 CH
All above was grayed out and I could not change it.
Back home in the backyard,
Dish Type: SL3 LNB
RB/INTL: None Selected
Switch Type: I think it was single and I also had a choice of multiswitch
All of the above was changeable.
What has happened? What should my settings be for the new 3D2RBLNBR0-14???
That's the only thing different from the tripod kit I purchased and referenced above.
Note: there were two different TVs, but again same receiver, H25-100.
Purchased a Tripod Kit; DirectV SWim SL3S. Out the box, set it up, and had television. Perhaps it was pure luck.
Following season... can't get a signal. Had a Directv technician come to my backyard. Dish was slightly bent on rim. He replaced this with what looked like the same dish. He ALSO replaced the LNB. I THOUGHT it was the same type I had with the kit.
Today... trying to set up at tailgate and dish type is defaulting to something I haven't seen before and won't allow me to change. I never got it working.
Come home and tried in back yard. NOW dish type is changeable!
Using same dish, same receiver, same cables, same LNB.
What I now have is model 3D2RBLNBR0-14
Unfortunately I didn't write down what defaulted at the game. What I remember is
Dish Type: SL3 LNB
RB/INTL: can't remember what was here
Switch Type: remember something about 22 CH
All above was grayed out and I could not change it.
Back home in the backyard,
Dish Type: SL3 LNB
RB/INTL: None Selected
Switch Type: I think it was single and I also had a choice of multiswitch
All of the above was changeable.
What has happened? What should my settings be for the new 3D2RBLNBR0-14???
That's the only thing different from the tripod kit I purchased and referenced above.
Note: there were two different TVs, but again same receiver, H25-100.
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It remains to be seen if they put HD channels on 101, it is quite possible they do but I wouldn't assume that's certain. I also wouldn't assume they keep using 119. The only thing I feel certain about is that they will drop 110, because D5 is reaching end of life and it isn't worth replacing that satellite for only three measley transponders. Even if they drop 110/119 I think it would be five years before Dish can petition the FCC to take over those transponders, plus there's a long standing (and AFAIK still unresolved) dispute over reverse band at 103 with a Canadian company called Ciel that Dish is involved with that may figure into this. They would happily drop 119 if that's the price of keeping reverse band at 103.
They can't do what you're suggesting, and put all HD channels on 101. They won't come close to fitting unless they compress them as much as Dish does with their 'HD lite', and why would Directv want to trade their advantage of superior image quality? What's the point of leaving Ka band at 99/103 free? You're dreaming if you think they will need that room for 4K - we'll be damn lucky to EVER see enough 4K channels to fill up the 50 or so that will fit in the 36 reverse band transponders!
The big question is, what does Directv want to do about people in RVs and boats with built in dishes that only receive 101, especially those who paid thousands for in motion dishes? You can't upgrade those to Slimline, and in fact you can't even buy a tracking Slimline for an RV any price. You can for a boat, but they cost $20,000!
Here are the options as I see them:
1) If keeping 119:
1a) Carry as much HD as possible on 101 (maybe 150 channels or so) and carry international channels @ 95, and SD only channels @ 101/119 in MPEG4 SD on 119. 101 only dishes get a lot fewer channels than today, but at least they're all in HD.
1b) Carry a lot of HD on 101 (maybe 100 channels or so) but instead of 1a any channel currently carried on 101 is still carried on 101 in either HD or MPEG4 SD. 101 only dishes get exactly the same set of channels they do today, with the most popular ones in HD.
1c) Carry MPEG4 SD duplicates of EVERYTHING on 101: all MPEG2 SD channels @ 101, 95, and 119, plus all MPEG4 SD only channels @ 99/103 are carried in MPEG4 SD on 101. They'd find something useful to do with 119 to keep it out of Dish's hands - maybe carry all the HD west coast feeds of channels that have them, since 119 is easier to receive out west and they're the ones most likely to want that, but if they had no LOS to 119 it wouldn't be a show stopper.
2) If dropping 119:
2a) Same as 1a, but everything moving from 95/101/119 is carried on 99/103 instead of 119
2b) Same as 1b, but everything moving from 95/119 is carried on 99/103 of 119
2c) Same as 1c, but they wouldn't have to come up with a use for 119
If I had to guess I'd say 2b or 2c are the most likely, but what do I know? If anyone reading this has any inside information, and you're able to talk about it, please post!
One other factor here are locals. Some markets currently get MPEG2 SD locals via spotbeams from 101 or 119. They will all go away in 2019, so people with 101 only dishes who currently can get their locals will only get network programming if they are able to receive NYC or LA locals via their service address or DNS (or OTA)
It remains to be seen if they put HD channels on 101, it is quite possible they do but I wouldn't assume that's certain. I also wouldn't assume they keep using 119. The only thing I feel certain about is that they will drop 110, because D5 is reaching end of life and it isn't worth replacing that satellite for only three measley transponders. Even if they drop 110/119 I think it would be five years before Dish can petition the FCC to take over those transponders, plus there's a long standing (and AFAIK still unresolved) dispute over reverse band at 103 with a Canadian company called Ciel that Dish is involved with that may figure into this. They would happily drop 119 if that's the price of keeping reverse band at 103.
They can't do what you're suggesting, and put all HD channels on 101. They won't come close to fitting unless they compress them as much as Dish does with their 'HD lite', and why would Directv want to trade their advantage of superior image quality? What's the point of leaving Ka band at 99/103 free? You're dreaming if you think they will need that room for 4K - we'll be damn lucky to EVER see enough 4K channels to fill up the 50 or so that will fit in the 36 reverse band transponders!
The big question is, what does Directv want to do about people in RVs and boats with built in dishes that only receive 101, especially those who paid thousands for in motion dishes? You can't upgrade those to Slimline, and in fact you can't even buy a tracking Slimline for an RV any price. You can for a boat, but they cost $20,000!
Here are the options as I see them:
1) If keeping 119:
1a) Carry as much HD as possible on 101 (maybe 150 channels or so) and carry international channels @ 95, and SD only channels @ 101/119 in MPEG4 SD on 119. 101 only dishes get a lot fewer channels than today, but at least they're all in HD.
1b) Carry a lot of HD on 101 (maybe 100 channels or so) but instead of 1a any channel currently carried on 101 is still carried on 101 in either HD or MPEG4 SD. 101 only dishes get exactly the same set of channels they do today, with the most popular ones in HD.
1c) Carry MPEG4 SD duplicates of EVERYTHING on 101: all MPEG2 SD channels @ 101, 95, and 119, plus all MPEG4 SD only channels @ 99/103 are carried in MPEG4 SD on 101. They'd find something useful to do with 119 to keep it out of Dish's hands - maybe carry all the HD west coast feeds of channels that have them, since 119 is easier to receive out west and they're the ones most likely to want that, but if they had no LOS to 119 it wouldn't be a show stopper.
2) If dropping 119:
2a) Same as 1a, but everything moving from 95/101/119 is carried on 99/103 instead of 119
2b) Same as 1b, but everything moving from 95/119 is carried on 99/103 of 119
2c) Same as 1c, but they wouldn't have to come up with a use for 119
If I had to guess I'd say 2b or 2c are the most likely, but what do I know? If anyone reading this has any inside information, and you're able to talk about it, please post!
One other factor here are locals. Some markets currently get MPEG2 SD locals via spotbeams from 101 or 119. They will all go away in 2019, so people with 101 only dishes who currently can get their locals will only get network programming if they are able to receive NYC or LA locals via their service address or DNS (or OTA)
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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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This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.
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Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
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On Tuesday, I recorded the first episodes of the new season's NCIS shows on CBS (Dish provided, not OTA). The new New York series and Origins will both do Auto Skip, but the original, now season 24 does not. What's stranger, when I do a search for NCIS, Origins and New York show the current recording and the next episode it will record, but the original show only shows the current recording and some other channel showing the very first episode of season one. It makes no sense. When I set up the timers, I was able to use search for Origins and New York, but for the original, I had to scroll ahead in the guide until last Tuesday when the show was airing. Then set the timer from there. You can see its timer type is DVR where the other two are Seek. What am I missing?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
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Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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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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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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Starting a thread klang !
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
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One episode into season 4 that dropped today...
