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Hello there
new to this site, I'm not sure if I can post this here.
Catching up back with my Satellite skills but new to new receivers
I'm looking at buying one and I'm looking at this but there are some stuff I don't understand and also the differences between one to another
here is this one:
GTMEDIA V8X HD DVB-S/S2/S2X FTA Digital Satellite Receiver, Free to Air Built-in 2.4G WiFi TV Sat Decoder Supports Intelsat 901 at 27.5°W BBC Channel..........$57USD
But, in the description says this:
Notice:
It doesn't support 8psk turbo satellite channels; So for North America customers, please pay attention in advance if you want to purchase this item. We do not advise customers purchase this item, especially when you want to use Terrestrial function or want to watch turbo 8psk satellite channels.
I don't understand what they mean and why they say that north america should not purchase this item?
what is 8psk turbo satellite channels?
They compare to this but what's the difference?
Please, help to decide what is the best purchase and why
I need to connect to my old Satellite dish its up in my roof, looks like 30" dia. or possible make an old existing Directv dish to hook up to this system.
I'd like to buy this LNB
I'd like to get the Galaxy 19 Satellite and all possible channels I can get with a good system even If I have to get a motorized system, I don't know, all depends
I was thinking that maybe with new receivers and wifi features may not need motorized system, I don't know
just exploring and see what I can do to build a good Satellite tv system and be able to record what I'd like to watch.
PS: I purchased a TABLE QUAD OTA DVR wifi receiver for a regular antenna with 4 turners and be able to record any program with attached HDD.
Its awesome, I'll recommend this to anyone interested in local channels to view 4 TVs all viewing different channels and record anything you want
the TVS are hooked up via wifi in smart TVs, no wire needed or watch in laptop or your phone visiting friends and family watch your HOME TV.
Please, let me know
your help will be really appreciate it.
Thanks so much stay safe
Freddy
new to this site, I'm not sure if I can post this here.
Catching up back with my Satellite skills but new to new receivers
I'm looking at buying one and I'm looking at this but there are some stuff I don't understand and also the differences between one to another
here is this one:
GTMEDIA V8X HD DVB-S/S2/S2X FTA Digital Satellite Receiver, Free to Air Built-in 2.4G WiFi TV Sat Decoder Supports Intelsat 901 at 27.5°W BBC Channel..........$57USD
But, in the description says this:
Notice:
It doesn't support 8psk turbo satellite channels; So for North America customers, please pay attention in advance if you want to purchase this item. We do not advise customers purchase this item, especially when you want to use Terrestrial function or want to watch turbo 8psk satellite channels.
I don't understand what they mean and why they say that north america should not purchase this item?
what is 8psk turbo satellite channels?
They compare to this but what's the difference?
Please, help to decide what is the best purchase and why
I need to connect to my old Satellite dish its up in my roof, looks like 30" dia. or possible make an old existing Directv dish to hook up to this system.
I'd like to buy this LNB
I'd like to get the Galaxy 19 Satellite and all possible channels I can get with a good system even If I have to get a motorized system, I don't know, all depends
I was thinking that maybe with new receivers and wifi features may not need motorized system, I don't know
just exploring and see what I can do to build a good Satellite tv system and be able to record what I'd like to watch.
PS: I purchased a TABLE QUAD OTA DVR wifi receiver for a regular antenna with 4 turners and be able to record any program with attached HDD.
Its awesome, I'll recommend this to anyone interested in local channels to view 4 TVs all viewing different channels and record anything you want
the TVS are hooked up via wifi in smart TVs, no wire needed or watch in laptop or your phone visiting friends and family watch your HOME TV.
Please, let me know
your help will be really appreciate it.
Thanks so much stay safe
Freddy
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Like this? Assign it the position that would be 0??
AMIKO - I can't figure out how to add a new satellite.
and i don't know if my DG380 will find it also. i have the titanium 1.2 with the titanium lnb i think.
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Freddy , click menu>installation>satellite installation>down button till you highlight Positioner and click till you see USALS>hit center button and this screen appears. Doesn't matter what satellite your on. You will see a underline under the first #. push the #1 on your remote. Then with the left-right button you can move to the numbers you want to change.
BUT no matter what satellite is at the top of the page it will always be the Latitude you originally entered.
USALS only knows to move so many counts from satellite to satellite. So you start by putting the motor at 0 (and leaving it at zero) If you have the dish nearly at the setting I provided all you have to do is slowly move the motor on the pole to dead south till you see on the signal level that you found the satellite. Fine tune left and right till you have the best signal. Now before loosening the adjusting bolts lightly pull back on the bottom of the dish if the signal improves adjust the dish down. If it gets worse adjust up. Now do a blind scan to confirm you are on 121. Now that you are on 121 tighten bolts on the pole and on the dish. I hope you put a through bolt locking the dish to the arm.
Now USALS can work because it knows where it is. "0" and 121.88
If you select a satellite and you get a so-so Quality signal # on that satellite you have more adjusting to do. Read how to determine which way to go. Since 121 has such a strong signal you can be off good amount. If you had a weaker signal to adjust to you could fine tune it a bit easier.
Now if you still can't find 121 or the motor moves to a satellite like 97 and you get no signals you may need to remove the motor and start at the beginning like most of us. Put the dish on the pole. Use Dishpointer to get a landmark for your selected satellite. Put a known transponder in the receiver with a tv connected. move up and down and then left and right. When you find that first satellite you will feel great. Then read and read some more about this hobby. Baby steps
Good Luck!
BUT no matter what satellite is at the top of the page it will always be the Latitude you originally entered.
USALS only knows to move so many counts from satellite to satellite. So you start by putting the motor at 0 (and leaving it at zero) If you have the dish nearly at the setting I provided all you have to do is slowly move the motor on the pole to dead south till you see on the signal level that you found the satellite. Fine tune left and right till you have the best signal. Now before loosening the adjusting bolts lightly pull back on the bottom of the dish if the signal improves adjust the dish down. If it gets worse adjust up. Now do a blind scan to confirm you are on 121. Now that you are on 121 tighten bolts on the pole and on the dish. I hope you put a through bolt locking the dish to the arm.
Now USALS can work because it knows where it is. "0" and 121.88
If you select a satellite and you get a so-so Quality signal # on that satellite you have more adjusting to do. Read how to determine which way to go. Since 121 has such a strong signal you can be off good amount. If you had a weaker signal to adjust to you could fine tune it a bit easier.
Now if you still can't find 121 or the motor moves to a satellite like 97 and you get no signals you may need to remove the motor and start at the beginning like most of us. Put the dish on the pole. Use Dishpointer to get a landmark for your selected satellite. Put a known transponder in the receiver with a tv connected. move up and down and then left and right. When you find that first satellite you will feel great. Then read and read some more about this hobby. Baby steps
Good Luck!
Freddy,
There seems to be a misconception that the motor must move back to the zero position between every satellite move and then wait there until it is commanded to go to another satellite. This is not the case. If you are on 97W and select 121W the motor will go directly to 121W. It's control circuitry 'knows' where it currently is on the arc and will move the number of degrees needed to get there. It does not need to return to zero between every move. Hope this helps.
I guess you didn't try my suggestion. I spent a little time reading of these usals motors. 0 is only for setup. They come set that way out of the box and I'm thinking that 'they' assume you're going to do the preliminary mechanical setups before doing your final aiming tweaks.Like this? Assign it the position that would be 0??
AMIKO - I can't figure out how to add a new satellite.
and i don't know if my DG380 will find it also. i have the titanium 1.2 with the titanium lnb i think.
Don't these things also work on DISEqC and reference positioning on counts versus pre programmed positioning?
I read where people are constantly having to bump the motor to peak signal all of the time and the 'cheat' is to modify the geographic settings in the satellite menu. Anyway, isn't there something like an initialize command to stick the motor back to zero and keep it there?
Looks easy enough to setup as long as you realize the motor has to point at the north star or with a compass after magnetic deviation is calculated.
The motor gets set for latitude next, the dish mounted and pointed right at south (maybe using a reference on the dish or measuring from the dish rim to a motor bracket on the pole equidistant on both horizontal dish rims). Then setting declination on the dish mount.
"Seems" easy enough. Me? Want the dish to go-to-zero and stay there? Create a new satellite and call it Zero and put in your what would be zero coordinates.
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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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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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The TPN Map Excel Presents all DIRECTV Channels:
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National (50-States or wide/NAT+PR beams)
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Net Decoder a graphic presentation of all satellites and transponders
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Net Decoder a graphic presentation of all satellites and transponders
Domestic Satellites
@99W...... D11, D14
@101W.... D16
@103W.... D12, D15
@110W.... D5
@119W.... D8
@99W...... D11, D14
@101W.... D16
@103W.... D12, D15
@110W.... D5
@119W.... D8
Understanding the TPN Map
Making Sense of the TPN Map Display Conventions
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For the naysayers who did not think this service would make it, just added another 4.9M subscribers and that was after the removal of 1.2M Russia subscribers.
This is even better, Paramount+ revenue grew 120% and Subscription revenue grew 74% year-over-year ( 2nd quarter 2021/ 2nd quarter 2022) to $830M, principally reflecting paid subscriber growth on Paramount+.
Now compare that to Peacock with only 13 million paid, 13 million free.
This is even better, Paramount+ revenue grew 120% and Subscription revenue grew 74% year-over-year ( 2nd quarter 2021/ 2nd quarter 2022) to $830M, principally reflecting paid subscriber growth on Paramount+.
Now compare that to Peacock with only 13 million paid, 13 million free.
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So, this means that those of us with Commercial Free subs, won't be Commercial Free, unless we wait till after the show is over ?
Which would make same day, not that big of a deal.
Paramount+ has always had the CBS shows on the CBS local channel and yes with commercials. What they are doing now is releasing the OnDemand versions of the show which I believe they don't release until after the shows air on the west coast. And they will be commercial free if you subscribe to the ad free version of Paramount+.So, this means that those of us with Commercial Free subs, won't be Commercial Free, unless we wait till after the show is over ?
Which would make same day, not that big of a deal.
I wasn't up at 3:00 am to check but they are there at 8:00 am today.
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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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
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