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So, my 33" offset hasn't even arrived yet and I already got one of the slimlines working. I like to know, if I want to switch sats to lets say, 91w will I have to go through setting the elevation, azimuth, and skew all over again every time I want to swtitch sats?
If this is so, maybe I might want to buy a motor later? Does the motor like move everything on the disk for you from inside from a controle panel or something like that? I might be able to make my own. I have some arcade buttons, switches, joysticks and some motors and wood basic working/machining ability.
Right now, I have the slim aimed at g19.
If this is so, maybe I might want to buy a motor later? Does the motor like move everything on the disk for you from inside from a controle panel or something like that? I might be able to make my own. I have some arcade buttons, switches, joysticks and some motors and wood basic working/machining ability.
Right now, I have the slim aimed at g19.
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Yes, anytime you want to move your dish to another satellite you will have to:
ride along ) the same coax. 
The reason I say descent receiver is the fact that some don't have the power to push a motor very well and some of the off brand ones won't even send the USALS commands or send the properly.
First though I recommend you continue to move the dish around by hand to different birds and get some more experience under your belt. Adding a motor adds a whole other learning curve.
- Rotate it on the pole over to that bird(Azimuth).
- Change the up and down for your location(Elevation).
- and yes, you will have to move the skew.
ride along ) the same coax. The reason I say descent receiver is the fact that some don't have the power to push a motor very well and some of the off brand ones won't even send the USALS commands or send the properly.
First though I recommend you continue to move the dish around by hand to different birds and get some more experience under your belt. Adding a motor adds a whole other learning curve.
Agree with KE4EST. Get some more practice aiming the dish at other sats so you know how things work then upgrade to a motor. Make sure you mark your current elevation, azimuth and skew in some way (pencil, marker, etc) so you can return to a known position if you get lost. As far as a motor, when you are ready I would recommend a STAB HH90. High quality, Italian made motor manufactured by the company that developed USALS.
HH-90
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good to know.
Surprisingly enough, my cheesy $25 receiver has diseque settings.
I have also replaced the crappy power supply it came with with a nicer beefier one. I think it helped the overall performance of the gtmedia. Hopefully it will be able to handle the motor!
I wonder if the power supply affects the reseption at all compaired to if I still had the old one it came with. Just wanted to add this.
Have no idea what the old one was as far as amp rating. The new one is 12V DC 1A
awesome!Yes, anytime you want to move your dish to another satellite you will have to:
A motor will run right off of your receiver, assuming you have a descent receiver. You can get a USALS/DiSEqC 1.3 motor and run a coax from the receiver to the motor then a short jumper coax from the motor to the LNBF on the dish. The receiver will send commands that will multiple
- Rotate it on the pole over to that bird(Azimuth).
- Change the up and down for your location(Elevation).
- and yes, you will have to move the skew.
The reason I say descent receiver is the fact that some don't have the power to push a motor very well and some of the off brand ones won't even send the USALS commands or send the properly.
First though I recommend you continue to move the dish around by hand to different birds and get some more experience under your belt. Adding a motor adds a whole other learning curve.
good to know.
Surprisingly enough, my cheesy $25 receiver has diseque settings.
I have also replaced the crappy power supply it came with with a nicer beefier one. I think it helped the overall performance of the gtmedia. Hopefully it will be able to handle the motor!
I wonder if the power supply affects the reseption at all compaired to if I still had the old one it came with. Just wanted to add this.
Have no idea what the old one was as far as amp rating. The new one is 12V DC 1A
You will need at least a 2amp supply to push a motor, I have 6 on mine. 
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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
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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.
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
Help, I'm a little confjused on the activation process.
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
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All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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i bought mine straight from dish as it was only $ 100.00 bucks!!! had the protection plan they came out removed and deactivated the 4k joey and activated and installed the joey 4.All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
The new curated multiview is now live.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
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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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