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Well I ordered a dish from a site called Electorica. They are at SATELLITE DISHES, Electorica
Well first off I waited 4 days and never got any kind of tracking info. They sell on Ebay and sell alot. I went and bought straight off the site. So I emailed them and the owner said the site is no longer used and that the price was out of date but he would give it to me this one time! Really?Why not turn the site off?So this guy waited 4 more days then finally shipped it off! I got it finally yesterday evening a full 15 days after I ordered it! The dish is on ebay as well and advertised as a 39" Super High gain dish. Well I pulled out the tape and what do you know it is about 34.5 wide and 37.5 from top to bottom! So I guess we can call it a 36" IDK! This dude sells these all over Ebay! How can you sell a dish as a 39" when the widest point is only 37.5? I am heading out on a cruise so didnt have much time to fine tune it but I still can barely tune in the New York lotto feed on 87* and am only getting 74% on the NEWS ONE LIVE channels on 91*.. So I am not pleased at all buying a dish that is supposed to be 39" and it only being 34.5 x 37.5 but oh well maybe the signal will be better than my 76cm. I guess this would be equivelent to a 90cm. I do not recommend this seller. They are all over Ebay and the site is one of the popular ones if you search fta dishes. Just giving a warning. If you buy a 39" dish it should be 39". Just my two cents.
Well first off I waited 4 days and never got any kind of tracking info. They sell on Ebay and sell alot. I went and bought straight off the site. So I emailed them and the owner said the site is no longer used and that the price was out of date but he would give it to me this one time! Really?Why not turn the site off?So this guy waited 4 more days then finally shipped it off! I got it finally yesterday evening a full 15 days after I ordered it! The dish is on ebay as well and advertised as a 39" Super High gain dish. Well I pulled out the tape and what do you know it is about 34.5 wide and 37.5 from top to bottom! So I guess we can call it a 36" IDK! This dude sells these all over Ebay! How can you sell a dish as a 39" when the widest point is only 37.5? I am heading out on a cruise so didnt have much time to fine tune it but I still can barely tune in the New York lotto feed on 87* and am only getting 74% on the NEWS ONE LIVE channels on 91*.. So I am not pleased at all buying a dish that is supposed to be 39" and it only being 34.5 x 37.5 but oh well maybe the signal will be better than my 76cm. I guess this would be equivelent to a 90cm. I do not recommend this seller. They are all over Ebay and the site is one of the popular ones if you search fta dishes. Just giving a warning. If you buy a 39" dish it should be 39". Just my two cents.
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That doesn't seem to be the right question.
If moving the arm down gives improvement, you get signals from higher above, so the solution for that would be to adjust the dish UP !
Or you might want to check if the LNB position matches the offset angle of the dish, so to check if the arm might be constructed in too high a position?
"Easy" formula to check that (for flat, paraboloid dishes), to see how long your topstring should be, is:
Topstring = Bottomstring + squareroot ( (dish-hight squared) - (dish-width squared) )
Where topstring is distance from top of dish to focal point (phase center of LNB feedhorn), and bottomstring the bottom-variant of that.
Of course you could also check the distance from LNB to dish, but then you'd need a more extensive calculator/calculation.
Well, the problem is that when adjusting one variable at the motor setup to get improvement on a certain satellite position, usually means that another variable has also to be adjusted, to keep following the arc.
Have you used the 'modified motor angles' for setting up your motor? (E.g. this table: Elevation / declination chart )
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That doesn't seem to be the right question.
If moving the arm down gives improvement, you get signals from higher above, so the solution for that would be to adjust the dish UP !
Or you might want to check if the LNB position matches the offset angle of the dish, so to check if the arm might be constructed in too high a position?
"Easy" formula to check that (for flat, paraboloid dishes), to see how long your topstring should be, is:
Topstring = Bottomstring + squareroot ( (dish-hight squared) - (dish-width squared) )
Where topstring is distance from top of dish to focal point (phase center of LNB feedhorn), and bottomstring the bottom-variant of that.
Of course you could also check the distance from LNB to dish, but then you'd need a more extensive calculator/calculation.
Well, the problem is that when adjusting one variable at the motor setup to get improvement on a certain satellite position, usually means that another variable has also to be adjusted, to keep following the arc.
Have you used the 'modified motor angles' for setting up your motor? (E.g. this table: Elevation / declination chart )
Greetz,
A33
That doesn't seem to be the right question.
If moving the arm down gives improvement, you get signals from higher above, so the solution for that would be to adjust the dish UP !
No the arm down or up wasnt making a difference. It was the lnb itself facing more downward was raising signal a few points higher but there is no way to keep it in that position.
Or you might want to check if the LNB position matches the offset angle of the dish, so to check if the arm might be constructed in too high a position?
"Easy" formula to check that (for flat, paraboloid dishes), to see how long your topstring should be, is:
Topstring = Bottomstring + squareroot ( (dish-hight squared) - (dish-width squared) )
Where topstring is distance from top of dish to focal point (phase center of LNB feedhorn), and bottomstring the bottom-variant of that.
Of course you could also check the distance from LNB to dish, but then you'd need a more extensive calculator/calculation.
Well, the problem is that when adjusting one variable at the motor setup to get improvement on a certain satellite position, usually means that another variable has also to be adjusted, to keep following the arc.
Have you used the 'modified motor angles' for setting up your motor? (E.g. this table: Elevation / declination chart )
Greetz,
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Ah, so sorry! I wasn't reading carefully!
If in fact the LNB is pointing somewhere to the middle of the dish, that is too high. (It is hard to see, at your pictures.)
Normally it should be aimed at the so-called G-spot, that is along the bisector line from focus to dish, exactly dividing topstring and bottomstring angle in half.
Or a very little bit higher, between G-spot and deepest point of the dish (which lies about halfway between G-spot and center of dish); that might even be a very little bit better.
If this part of dish geometry istn't constructed well, I'd not only check the LNB-aiming, but also the LNB-positioning, if I were you.
Inputs needed are hight and width of the (working area of the) dish, and very exact depth at the middle (assuming the dish has an exact flat front ("string tested") ).
Parabola6 by Strannik is a good calculator on the internet for that; or I have a spreadsheet calculator that can calculate the same dish specs for you of you want.
Greetz,
A33
Ah, so sorry! I wasn't reading carefully!
If in fact the LNB is pointing somewhere to the middle of the dish, that is too high. (It is hard to see, at your pictures.)
Normally it should be aimed at the so-called G-spot, that is along the bisector line from focus to dish, exactly dividing topstring and bottomstring angle in half.
Or a very little bit higher, between G-spot and deepest point of the dish (which lies about halfway between G-spot and center of dish); that might even be a very little bit better.
If this part of dish geometry istn't constructed well, I'd not only check the LNB-aiming, but also the LNB-positioning, if I were you.
Inputs needed are hight and width of the (working area of the) dish, and very exact depth at the middle (assuming the dish has an exact flat front ("string tested") ).
Parabola6 by Strannik is a good calculator on the internet for that; or I have a spreadsheet calculator that can calculate the same dish specs for you of you want.
Greetz,
A33
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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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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.
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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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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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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College Football Playoff nears agreement on 24-team expansion that could end title games
The College Football Playoff field is about to get much more crowded as the conferences near a deal to double the size of the field to 24 teams starting next year
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Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.
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Can't imagine what the son is going through.
Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster
Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.
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Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
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Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
It makes sense, however, I would want more types of restraints, so if one doesn't work, the other does ... the restraints coming over the shoulder I would have expected ... with a Seat belt as last resort.
Fwiw, I inquired with what they use on Coasters at Cedar Point, various Coasters, different restraints according to what the car and track requires ...
NONE of the Coasters at CP use THAT particular system
I'm glad to see ...
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Browns lose a close one with... The Jets. That is a classic Browns loss (granted, any loss is a classic one it seems). 49'ers, Vikings, and Chiefs remain undefeated. The AFC north have a three way tie at 3-2 for second place.
A big win for the Patriots, and they are now 3-2.
Browns lose a close one with... The Jets. That is a classic Browns loss (granted, any loss is a classic one it seems). 49'ers, Vikings, and Chiefs remain undefeated. The AFC north have a three way tie at 3-2 for second place.
Troy Aikman seems to confirm he'll be leaving ESPN
Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.Troy Aikman seems to confirm he'll be leaving ESPN
Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
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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?
