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reubenray

Last reply Sep 26, 2019 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dishpointer or Dish's Pointing Guide?

Which do I use? I have a two lnb EA setup. My zip is 49749.

Dishpointer - E - 32.9, A - 156.4 (M), Skew - -21.1? (This is for 61.5 only)

Dishpointer - E - 36, A - 170.9, Skew - 78.5 This is for the 1000.4 dish with 3 lnbs.

Dish - E - 36, A - 166, Skew - 76 - I have this set up now, but I am not getting any signal.

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NYDutch

Sep 25, 2019

The DishPointer number for the 1K4 use the 72.7 LNB as the focal point. The DishPointer website numbers are always more accurate than the Dish chart numbers, especially if you're using the coordinates or street address instead just a zip code. When using an AR app like the one from Winegard or DishPointer, make sure you're viewing from the approximate "look" angle of the offset dish when it's a tight fit. I usually stand a few feet in front of the dish. Can you move your tripod a little farther away from the trees? Even 10 feet can make a lot of difference.

reubenray

Sep 25, 2019

NYDutch said:
The DishPointer number for the 1K4 use the 72.7 LNB as the focal point. The DishPointer website numbers are always more accurate than the Dish chart numbers, especially if you're using the coordinates or street address instead just a zip code. When using an AR app like the one from Winegard or DishPointer, make sure you're viewing from the approximate "look" angle of the offset dish when it's a tight fit. I usually stand a few feet in front of the dish. Can you move your tripod a little farther away from the trees? Even 10 feet can make a lot of difference.

I did try moving it back as much as I could without having tree trucks in my way., but it was not good enough. I knew it would be long shot to get the signal, but I tried at two different locations.

NYDutch

Sep 25, 2019

It's a relatively low elevation, but see if you can find a spot where you can at least hit the 61.5 sat. That'll give you most of the popular channels anyway. Another option would be to crank the elevation up to 37 and see if you can catch a signal from the 77 sat. That would also give you a number of the popular channels, although mostly in SD.

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reubenray

Sep 26, 2019

NYDutch said:
It's a relatively low elevation, but see if you can find a spot where you can at least hit the 61.5 sat. That'll give you most of the popular channels anyway. Another option would be to crank the elevation up to 37 and see if you can catch a signal from the 77 sat. That would also give you a number of the popular channels, although mostly in SD.

The 61.5 sat was the only one that was even close to being in the open. This is what I tried the most. I even put foil on the 72 sat feedhorn. I also had my tripod at it's tallest position.

We will be site-seeing today, so I can't play around with it. Another option I have it to pull the motorhome forward a few feet to clear the immediate trees. I would then try the Trav'ler again. I would first get up there with my phone and the Winegard app. It was raining on and off yesterday, so I did not want to get on the roof. But we will only be here for three more nights and Netflix is working great plus I get two local channels.

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NYDutch

Sep 26, 2019

reubenray said:
The 61.5 sat was the only one that was even close to being in the open. This is what I tried the most. I even put foil on the 72 sat feedhorn. I also had my tripod at it's tallest position.

We will be site-seeing today, so I can't play around with it. Another option I have it to pull the motorhome forward a few feet to clear the immediate trees. I would then try the Trav'ler again. I would first get up there with my phone and the Winegard app. It was raining on and off yesterday, so I did not want to get on the roof. But we will only be here for three more nights and Netflix is working great plus I get two local channels.

72 and 77 are at higher elevations than 61.5. Are you aiming through a hole in the trees rather than above them?

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reubenray

Sep 26, 2019

NYDutch said:
72 and 77 are at higher elevations than 61.5. Are you aiming through a hole in the trees rather than above them?

I guess a little bit of both. It is not a solid level tree line. The shorter tree that I was trying to see the sats was in between two taller trees. The 61 sat was just above the shorter tree and the 72 and 77 was clearly in the taller trees.

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reubenray

Last reply 4 minutes ago · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Laptop Shutting Off When On Battery?

Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.

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arlo

31 minutes ago

A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.

dishstaller

4 minutes ago

arlo said:
That's all I got.

That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks

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TRG

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Last reply 13 minutes ago · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Starlink Router question

I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

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b4pjoe

Saturday at 2:12 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.

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HipKat

Saturday at 11:07 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc

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Foxbat

Sunday at 12:44 AM

TRG said:
…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.

harshness

Sunday at 11:46 AM

If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

Starlink V5 Is Here: What RVers Need to Know

Overview of the new Starlink V5 model along with comparison to the previous V4 model along with a recommended setup for mobile internet users.

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Foxbat

13 minutes ago

Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.

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Last reply 13 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92AtfTLge4

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Jimbo

Today at 12:37 AM

Not Rodney, but a laugh ...

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dishstaller

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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.

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Last reply 23 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

At least 64 dead in Spanish passenger train collision

Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:24 AM

dishstaller said:
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.

dishstaller

23 minutes ago

Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.

The safest seat to sit on in a train

Safety experts have shared top tips on train safety after a fatal railway crash in Spain killed 69 people, including where the safest place is in an emergency.

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