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Mr. Sheep
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We finally pointed our dish correctly, and we've done everything right, but somehow we aren't getting anything. Is there anyone in the southeast area of Michigan who can come and help us out? We'll go into private messages once I find someone.
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wvman
We finally pointed our dish correctly, and we've done everything right, but somehow we aren't getting anything. Is there anyone in the southeast area of Michigan who can come and help us out? We'll go into private messages once I find someone.

It's not likely you'll find someone these days that's familiar with C-Band. No one here. I'm it and my experience was confined to analog broadcast, other than Dish and DirecTV. :) Are you certain the elevation and offset are correct for your area? What are you using to find a signal?
Mr. Sheep
It's not likely you'll find someone these days that's familiar with C-Band. No one here. I'm it and my experience was confined to analog broadcast, other than Dish and DirecTV. :) Are you certain the elevation and offset are correct for your area? What are you using to find a signal?
I'm using a Ku-Band dish, not C-Band. Yes the elevation, azimuth, and skew are correct. I'm using a Freesat v7 to find the signal and even when we set it just right, we get 60% signal intensity (means it's getting a signal, but nothing from said signal).

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we get 60% signal intensity (means it's getting a signal, but nothing from said signal).
That just means (as I have stated before) , the receiver is has a good connection to the LNBF. You have to lock the quality bar. Have you entered a good KNOWN active transponder for the satellite you are trying to hit?
Mr. Sheep
That just means (as I have stated before) , the receiver is has a good connection to the LNBF. You have to lock the quality bar. Have you entered a good KNOWN active transponder for the satellite you are trying to hit?
I put in about half of the Ku transponders for that bird, and it hangs at 60% signal intensity, but no signal quality. We are positive that we have our dish pointing in the right place, but it's just not getting anything and we have no idea why.
This may sound like a silly question, but is you mounting pole Plumb? If a pole is off just a little, it translates to a complete miss up there. If everything is correct as you say it is, you should be able to sweep the dish from side to side and find a signal. Remember, move it in very small increments. It has to have time to lock onto the signal.
We don't have a mounting pole for it. We just screwed the stand on to part of our deck. It has a very clear line of sight to the satellite, and the stand is very sturdy, but we still don't pick up anything.
wvman
I put in about half of the Ku transponders for that bird, and it hangs at 60% signal intensity, but no signal quality. We are positive that we have our dish pointing in the right place, but it's just not getting anything and we have no idea why.

We don't have a mounting pole for it. We just screwed the stand on to part of our deck. It has a very clear line of sight to the satellite, and the stand is very sturdy, but we still don't pick up anything.

Even using a stand, the tube the dish slides down over has to be plumb just like a ground pole. I assume the stand (Tripod) has telescopic legs for leveling it. If you put your level on it, does it show level on all sides? If not, that could be your problem. At this point, it's a process of elimination. If it's a wall mount like those used to mount a Dish or DirecTV to the side of a house, the tube where the dish mounts on has to be level as well.

Issues like this can be a little frustrating, but when you figure it out, it seems like it's always something simple you overlooked. I installed C-Band systems for 30 years, but those were analog systems. Digital was a whole new ballgame for me. Digital is much more sensitive and less forgiving than analog, and I'm still in the learning phase. You'll get it, be patient. Lots of good people in here willing to help.
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It seems to me that your confidence in the pointing of your dish is likely misplaced. In other words, you cannot say that you are pointing the dish in the right direction until you have locked on a transponder and adjusted for the best signal quality. Any geometric device such as compass, phone app, is only giving approximate directions. We cannot state that enough.

Beside the great advice given above (known transponder), I will add my advice: get one of the cheap satellite finders - they can be found online for less than $10. The thing plugs in between the LNBF and the receiver, and as the dish gets a signal and loses it, the gadget will make squealing sounds. It is not a very accurate tool by any mean, but it is still very convenient. With that in place, you move the dish slowly sideways until you get a higher pitch noise and then lose it. Go back to the location of the highest pitch, and do a blind scan. You might get something - in that case look up the listings on lyngsat and try to identify the channels and figure out what you are pointing at. If you get nothing, it might be that you are pointing at something that your receiver can't tune to, like a DirecTV satellite for example. In that case, move the dish again, maybe a a slightly different elevation, and look for another high pitch sound location.

I find that in that part of the sky, the easiest satellite is Galaxy 3C @ 95W, with the Chinese channels. Anyway, once you have been able to receive something, anything, it's easy to hop to the other birds
wvman
It seems to me that your confidence in the pointing of your dish is likely misplaced. In other words, you cannot say that you are pointing the dish in the right direction until you have locked on a transponder and adjusted for the best signal quality. Any geometric device such as compass, phone app, is only giving approximate directions. We cannot state that enough.

Beside the great advice given above (known transponder), I will add my advice: get one of the cheap satellite finders - they can be found online for less than $10. The thing plugs in between the LNBF and the receiver, and as the dish gets a signal and loses it, the gadget will make squealing sounds. It is not a very accurate tool by any mean, but it is still very convenient. With that in place, you move the dish slowly sideways until you get a higher pitch noise and then lose it. Go back to the location of the highest pitch, and do a blind scan. You might get something - in that case look up the listings on lyngsat and try to identify the channels and figure out what you are pointing at. If you get nothing, it might be that you are pointing at something that your receiver can't tune to, like a DirecTV satellite for example. In that case, move the dish again, maybe a a slightly different elevation, and look for another high pitch sound location.

I find that in that part of the sky, the easiest satellite is Galaxy 3C @ 95W, with the Chinese channels. Anyway, once you have been able to receive something, anything, it's easy to hop to the other birds

One thing I liked about the HDVR1200 is the feature that allowed you to create a channel. You could add the frequency, polarity, symbol rate and the PID info and you could store that channel. Once it was stored, you could leave it on that channel and move the dish until you hit the satellite and it would pop on. Once in a while, you'll hit a channel on the wrong satellite with the same information and it will pop on, but if you watch it a bit you can tell it's not what you're after. :)
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Mr. Sheep
So there's a problem. I just got the satellite finder in the mail today. It gets a full signal on the finder and when I plug in my receiver, it just gets 60% as usual. I have no idea what the problem is at this point.

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a33
So, isn't there a knob to turn the sensitivity of the satfinder down?
Use that, and then try to fineadjust the dish.
Totally discard your 60%-bar, but look for ........ what is already written twice above. I'm not going to repeat it.

Or, if there's no sensitivity knob, what kind of satfinder do you have? (picture?)

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SuperDish_Fan23
Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
Why are ViP922s So rare? like its crazy how ebay has none, i checked everywhere, also, i got a ViP222k now, which is actually activated!
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HipKat
I think they were more of a transitional receiver bridging the VIPs to the Hopper. They were a PITA to install and were buggy. Personally, I thought at the time that they were the best receiver out there. The versatility of the VIP's with the new Hopper GUI and, by far, the coolest-looking front plate and lighting.
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Well if it is because of reliability that wouldnt shock me.I went through 5 or 6 of them in little over 2 years. I loved the Sling when it worked! Saved lots of money having it in the day. That was probably 15 or 16 years ago?
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I think they were more of a transitional receiver bridging the VIPs to the Hopper. They were a PITA to install and were buggy. Personally, I thought at the time that they were the best receiver out there. The versatility of the VIP's with the new Hopper GUI and, by far, the coolest-looking front plate and lighting.
I don't recall that they came out just before hopper, but rather that they came out even before 722. Or could be thinking of 921.

As to the title pf the post, "rare" does not necessarily mean valuable or desirable.
Nominal
I don't recall that they came out just before hopper, but rather that they came out even before 722. Or could be thinking of 921.

As to the title pf the post, "rare" does not necessarily mean valuable or desirable.
You are thinking of the 921. The 922 was the first DVR with Sling functionality built in (that was eventually disabled along with the Sling Adapter for the 722s and the 1st Hopper because they relied on now-defunct Adobe Flash technology). With the bugginess described by others and the removal of its marquee feature (Sling) the 922 faded into obscurity once the Hopper 2 with built in Sling was released and they finally made the concept into a fully functional product.
dishdude
I had one, the front panel lighting was cool, the menus were fresh and a lot more modern looking than the ViPs. However, it was very buggy and the Sling functionality just didn't work well - I think it was due to internet speeds at the time. I think I had to pay $40 for the Sling app on my phone iirc.
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Scott Greczkowski
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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....
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Take It To The Limit - The Eagles
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Take It To The Limit - The Eagles
The two instances of "The" should have been highlighted.

Take
Me to the River - Talking Heads
dishstaller
Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Bobby
I Saw The Light - Todd Rundgren
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Little Bit Of Light - Strange Weather
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A Little Bit of Soap -- The Jarmels
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No idea what improvements might be involved.
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Has anyone noticed an FF stutter with 713? I used to be able to hit FF a few times and skip smoothly. After 713 (maybe 712), when I skip forward, there is a definite stutter for as many times as I have pressed FF.

Can anyone check on this and report back? Recorded programs and then press skip forward a few times to see if it's smooth? Normally, it just jumps to the right place after the skips.
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I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.
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Has anyone noticed an FF stutter with 713? I used to be able to hit FF a few times and skip smoothly. After 713 (maybe 712), when I skip forward, there is a definite stutter for as many times as I have pressed FF.

Can anyone check on this and report back? Recorded programs and then press skip forward a few times to see if it's smooth? Normally, it just jumps to the right place after the skips.
My wife mentioned that her remote is acting strange this morning. She hit FF and it went to 15x FF.
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Wife bought me a t-shirt that has "have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Here's the one I need:
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dishstaller
Here's the one I need:
Just ordered one....that's great.
jsmit86
I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.
It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
long_time_Dish
They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
Oh, you mean "soon"? :biggrin
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It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
I guess they will be busy when lots of people start asking for rollbacks to H708 now that you mention that downgrades of software does exist because it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner and the IR Remote problems in H710-H713.
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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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Two Chicago style hot dogs and a Fanta orange soda.
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Little mini pepperoni pizza, green beans, apples and chocolate milk.
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Fanta orange soda.
Sitting in fridge cooling off, bought 1 along with 2 Mexican Cokes at La Tienda... (I keep a few cokes stashed as well as in fridge and camper fridge)
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Garlic cheese bread
Green beans
Apples
Chocolate Milk
Some weird noodles. ;)
(They have salad and a couple other fruits if wanted)
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Club sandwich and corn chowder. Iced tea.
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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)
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Stargate SG-1 cancelled, Atlantis renewed
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Monday - August 21, 2006 | by Darren Sumner
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The future of Stargate is in question today, as SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running Stargate SG-1, Multichannel News reported today and a GateWorld source has confirmed. The news regrettably follows the airing of the show's milestone two-hundredth episode on Friday.

Stargate Atlantis, meanwhile, has been renewed for a fourth season, with the network hoping to see that the spin-off series can stand alone, according to a source.
Source Gateworld
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dfergie
The Tokra pt 1, I know pt 2 will be next...
(came across on Pluto tv live, went to media server for "clean" version)
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I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?
osu1991
long_time_Dish
I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?
Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.
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Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.
Which one has O'Neil being Ancients? I am at the end of Season 8 now.
Bobby
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Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
This is a thread that will keep you apprised of 4K events that will be showing on Dish channel 540. Keep looking here for information.

As of today, 9-27-17, there are no scheduled events posted for the next 2 weeks. That is subject to change on a daily basis.
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Bobby
MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Thursday 10-15, 6PM PDT, Channel 148-02.
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CFB, Notre Dame at BYU, Saturday 10-27, 4:30PM PDT, Channel 148-03.
Bobby
NASCAR, Freeway Insurance 500, Sunday 10-18, 12PM PDT, Channel 148-04.
Bobby
CFB, Ohio State at Indiana, Saturday 10-17, 9AM PDT, Channel 148-01.
CFB, Arizona State at Texas Tech, Saturday 10-17, 12:30PM PDT, Channel 148-01.
Bobby
CFB, Ole Miss at Texas, Saturday 10-24, 4:30PM PDT, Channel 148-03.
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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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A lot of upsets yesterday, but my LSU Tigers won.
Foxbat
Best fan sign I saw during the ND-BYU game: "Bear ate your Lucky Charms!" (Bear being the Cougars' QB). I was going to suggest, "Have you or your team been involved in a Carr crash?"
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They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.😈. Hated to see my dawgs go down but I still say being ranked #1 is a hex on you!
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They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.😈. Hated to see my dawgs go down but I still say being ranked #1 is a hex on you!
Yup, I agree, I'd rather be 2 or 3 till the last few weeks.