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Last reply · posted in Free To Air (FTA) Discussion
I think that the FTA hobby is going "to die off" within the next few years due to streaming, encryption and fiber optic unless if you are into foreign, shopping or Religous viewing on the big ugly dish. Could this be true or false? I now beleive this is true, it would be sad to see the hobby like this go. So enjoy the hobby while it lasts!
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armadillo_115
Still getting good out of our buds for the wife's Spanish programming. For me.... not so much. Get most of my entertainment on the web now. Especially enjoy some Youtube stuff and podcasts elsewhere. Thank goodness TMobile Internet came along when I needed it.

Would I install a Bud if starting out today just for me... doubtful. :(
WhiteBeard
Still getting good out of our buds for the wife's Spanish programming. For me.... not so much. Get most of my entertainment on the web now. Especially enjoy some Youtube stuff and podcasts elsewhere. Thank goodness TMobile Internet came along when I needed it.
My wife is down to watching just Azteca since the other stuff she was watching either disappeared or encrypted. There's a bit of spanish language programming on the Mexican sats but she doesn't seem to be too interested in that programming. I may have to get a streaming subscription for her in the near future.
toucan-man
My wife is down to watching just Azteca since the other stuff she was watching either disappeared or encrypted. There's a bit of spanish language programming on the Mexican sats but she doesn't seem to be too interested in that programming. I may have to get a streaming subscription for her in the near future.
Where is Azteca currently? Is it somewhere on C-Band?
cyberham
Where is Azteca currently? Is it somewhere on C-Band?
Azteca muxes are on C-band on 117W (Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala), 105W (Mexico) and 99W (Mexico).
toucan-man
Azteca muxes are on C-band on 117W (Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala), 105W (Mexico) and 99W (Mexico).
They appear to be gone from 99W. I'm not sure I can get 117W due to the neighbor's ever growing tree. I did find three Azteca channels at 93.1°W. Thanks for your help. Will try again tomorrow.
cyberham
They appear to be gone from 99W. I'm not sure I can get 117W due to the neighbor's ever growing tree. I did find three Azteca channels at 93.1°W. Thanks for your help. Will try again tomorrow.
Yes, I also scanned Azteca channels on 93.1W. You might try 99W at a different time of day.
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toucan-man
Yes, I also scanned Azteca channels on 93.1W. You might try 99W at a different time of day.
I noticed a comment at Ricks that the 99W channels have gone missing. My system is primitive, not motorized. There's a lot of walking back and forth to move to a different satellite. 117W would probably be ideal if I can get it.
WhiteBeard
I noticed a comment at Ricks that the 99W channels have gone missing. My system is primitive, not motorized. There's a lot of walking back and forth to move to a different satellite. 117W would probably be ideal if I can get it.
It's gone from 99W. I've been told it's on 117W but it's wiped out by 5G. There is another mux on 117W at a higher freq but it's scrambled despite being scanned in as FTA.
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clucas
Maybe the future is a transition from C-band to Ku. PBS migrated to Ku years ago and doesn't have a problem with rain fade but have you seen the size of the dishes they use? I would welcome using a smaller dish but I don't think you should abandon your ten footer, keep it for more reliable Ku reception. I have a stationary 10' dish with a combined C/Ku lnbf pointed at 97W. During the solar outage I noticed my Ku returned after only a few minutes instead of the 8 to 10 minutes I've experienced in the past on my smaller dish.

The reason I bring this up is an encouraging article I recently read. It's about 5G in Brazil and their solution.
For the past 30 to 40 years, free-to-air (FTA) broadcasting in Brazil has been streamed through C-band frequencies. However, this is all about to change. 5G is quickly becoming available throughout South America, and Anatel, Brazil's public telecom regulator, has stated that all FTA C-band channels must migrate to Ku-band to keep broadcasting.
Full story is on the Eutelsat website at: 5G In Brazil? Why FTA Channels Need to Migrate to Ku-Band | Eutelsat
FTA4PA
Interesting read. From that it appears KU is being forced and they are not even being given the option of trying to continue broadcasting on a smaller C Band bandwidth segment in Brazil. Perhaps, as you said, this may be our future as well. Time will tell.
Titanium
The above referenced Brazil C-band migration to KU-band of FTA (Free To Home - Direct Broadcast Services) was completed in Q4, 2024. Distribution services are being encouraged to migrate from 3600 - 4200 MHz to the 4500 - 4800MHz frequency range. Many services remain below 4200 MHz. Currently, the largest market for Titanium Satellite C138 and C238 5G filtered LNBFs is South America.
dishstaller
Pub Member / Supporter Lifetime Supporter
Last reply · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum
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.
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Foxbat
Doing a Google of the HughesNet Email notice, it seems that HughesNet has been trying to eliminate hosting emails since 2019. And with HughesNet filing Chapter 11 back in August, it would be a smart move to switch to a more stable Email provider. Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

SpaceX's Starlink and the Cellular 5G Home Internet solutions have pretty much relegated HughesNet and its high latency, low bandwidth Internet service to History. If Earth had shorter days, maybe a Geostationary Internet Solution might have stood a fighting chance…
dishstaller
Well, I helped him set up a gmail acct....I actually wanted to see what the new process is for setting up a gmail acct since it had been years since I set mine up. Anyway, I showed him how to forward the emails he wanted to keep over.
navychop
If Earth had shorter days,

Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

🙄
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Foxbat
Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

🙄
Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…😉
K
Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

I still have one of those although I've been trying to wean myself off it.
JSheridan
Among my many email accounts I still have a .netscape.net which AOL assimilated a while back.
dfergie
Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU!
Last reply · posted in TV Shows
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.
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"MysteryMan"
Best episode ever.
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Jimbo
Best episode ever.
I actually think the very first episode was One of the Best ...
S1 E1 Yankee White
Where it all started in what was it, 2003 ?

edit:
Sorry, I got the shows mixed up, were talking Origins ...
I've liked Most of them once we've gotten past the 1st 3-4, getting to know who was who took a bit in the beginning.
It's a bit harder seeing we already Know the person, then go back and see how they became that person.
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KAB
Mark Harmon is coming back as Gibbs in Origins, for the full season. Just saw, Dinozzo too, on NCIS . That will be an interesting writing project.
dfergie
Really good one with OG Gibbs bookending it...
R
Really good one with OG Gibbs bookending it...
Will the OG Gibbs be on NCIS or will Tony be on NCIS Origins?
Scott Greczkowski
Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU! Cutting Edge
Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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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Rick Island LINE-Johnny Cash
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Rock And Roll All Nite - Kiss
harshness
Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - AC/DC
Bobby
Kiss - The Art Of Noise
long_time_Dish
Beautiful Noise - Neil Diamond
TheRatPatrol
Last reply · posted in TV Shows
Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.

I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Jimbo

Howard ...
You don't like Tony, or Tony as the Director (he's only been there for 30 seconds now) or you don't like NCIS ?
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Howard ...
You don't like Tony, or Tony as the Director (he's only been there for 30 seconds now) or you don't like NCIS ?
Tony as the director.🙄
Jimbo
Tony as the director.🙄
Would you rather have LaRoche ???
dfergie
I liked this episode and a toned down Tony...
H
Last reply · posted in FTA Receiver / Equipment Support
I just received 6 receiver 2 port mini Multiswitch and it work great, no external power need it, and you can connect 6 receiver instead of 4 on most Mini Multiswitches... If anyone is interested in where they can get one PM me....
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Titanium
Have you tested using external power? Over the years, have found unpowered polarity switching to be unreliable. Especially problematic when used with DiSEqC motors or switch stacking.
H
No I have not. I just got it the other day and it is connected to six receivers working just fine. What I do is non power mini multi-switches work best with LNBF's and with LNB's
H
It also has a IPS and a OPS switch on the side of it with a power led light showing when is on. It seems to be very nice build switch
Bobby
Supporting Founder Lifetime Supporter
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, Wednesday 10-14, 5PM PDT, Channel 148-02.
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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.
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Former member 209992
Last reply · posted in SatelliteGuys Support Center
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.
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Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.
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Scott Greczkowski
I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now. :) We are rocking now!

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Foxbat
Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.
I rebooted my MacBook Air and it's zipping right along. Sorry, but it was taking over 20 seconds to load pages, with the pulsing blue bars so it was munching on something.
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Scott Greczkowski
Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. :D
Foxbat
Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. :D
WTF… …What the Foxbat!😱
dishstaller
Pub Member / Supporter Lifetime Supporter
Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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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Jimbo
Back on the Goliath Roller Coaster ... I'm interested to find more details as well ...
Like where on the track did this happen (somewhere I read that it was on the climb up the top), which is impossible ...

They really need to take that ride and add at the very least, seatbelts ...

The Park is opening back up on Friday, the ride will Not be opening ... personally, I would keep it closed until different type of restraints can be designed and installed (over the winter).

I find it hard to believe that this ride is even allowed to be running with the restraints that exist at the moment, there are other rides that use the same type and they have been shut down across the country.

You got to believe that every ride has at least 2 types of restraint systems in place.

I wonder what and when we will hear from the Manufacturer ... and whatever governing bodies control these ...

Just think, this is a Major Amusement Park .... I would not have any problem getting on the Roller Coasters I have rode ...

Imagine what these County Fairs and others like them, I would not be caught Dead on one of them ... they get put up and tore down every other week, where is the safety for those rides ... No Thank You.
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navychop
I would not be caught Dead on one of them

Yet IF you were on one, you might be caught dead.
dishstaller
Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.
Jimbo
Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.
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 ...
dishstaller
with a Seat belt as last resort.
According to the article, when you see a seat belt on a ride like this, it is basically used as a way of making sure the rider isn't too large/fat to safely ride the ride.
TWiT Tech Podcast Network
· posted in TWiT Tech Podcast Network
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