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HyperMegaSat.com Online Store is Closing
Hello everyone. It is with a sad heart that i am announcing that we will be closing the HyperMegaSat.com online store (website) in the next couple of days. We have had the HyperMegaSat.com website serving FTA hobbyists and enthusiasts for over 18 years (since 2006). Over that time we have served many, many customers, with many different products, from many different brands. And have made quite a few good friends along the way. Unfortunately, here in Jan 2025, our sales are down just too low to justify the costs of keeping the store open. It is a problem for FTA equipment sales in North America in general, as i am sure most of you know. We could discuss all the contributing factors, but i wont bore you here. I do miss the glory days of just 5-10 years ago. Our sale were great, i ran not only the HyperMegaSat.com store, but also a great support forum LegalFreeToAir (RIP), and also a Worldwide Satellite Channel Database SatHint (RIP). These last 2 sites were shutdown over the last few years and now HyperMegaSat.com is the last to go.
I want to say THANK YOU to all of our customers and supporters over the years. You helped me to support my family, and i learned so much from my customers along the way too. When i first started this i was a young wide-eyed FTA rookie who was just looking for a way to watch the Detroit Lions game one day (they used to black-out the tv broadcast if they did not sell out). I found my answer on-line. Ku Band FTA. WOOD TV was ITC on what i think was G18 at the time? And they carried the Lions game since they were out of the black-out zone. I ordered the equipment, got the channel and next thing i know i was so hooked i decided to learn more and open a business. And the rest is history.
Anyways, this is NOT the end of HyperMegaSat. We will continue to provide FTA Equipment for our loyal customers on Ebay and Amazon. Truth be told, a big reason for the low numbers at the HyperMegaSat.com store is a lot of customers prefer to buy at those places. We always tried to combat that with lower prices for our customers at our store by saving on the Ebay and Amazon fees, but alas, it only worked so well. Everything we sell at HyperMegaSat is available at our Ebay store, and a whole lot more other non-FTA stuff. At Amazon we only have FTA stuff, and only select items. We plan to add more FTA items soon to Amazon.
That is it. Thanks again to our customers for ALL THE GREAT YEARS.
And the HyperMegaSat.com store will be open for a few days yet.
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Hello everyone. It is with a sad heart that i am announcing that we will be closing the HyperMegaSat.com online store (website) in the next couple of days. We have had the HyperMegaSat.com website serving FTA hobbyists and enthusiasts for over 18 years (since 2006). Over that time we have served many, many customers, with many different products, from many different brands. And have made quite a few good friends along the way. Unfortunately, here in Jan 2025, our sales are down just too low to justify the costs of keeping the store open. It is a problem for FTA equipment sales in North America in general, as i am sure most of you know. We could discuss all the contributing factors, but i wont bore you here. I do miss the glory days of just 5-10 years ago. Our sale were great, i ran not only the HyperMegaSat.com store, but also a great support forum LegalFreeToAir (RIP), and also a Worldwide Satellite Channel Database SatHint (RIP). These last 2 sites were shutdown over the last few years and now HyperMegaSat.com is the last to go.
I want to say THANK YOU to all of our customers and supporters over the years. You helped me to support my family, and i learned so much from my customers along the way too. When i first started this i was a young wide-eyed FTA rookie who was just looking for a way to watch the Detroit Lions game one day (they used to black-out the tv broadcast if they did not sell out). I found my answer on-line. Ku Band FTA. WOOD TV was ITC on what i think was G18 at the time? And they carried the Lions game since they were out of the black-out zone. I ordered the equipment, got the channel and next thing i know i was so hooked i decided to learn more and open a business. And the rest is history.
Anyways, this is NOT the end of HyperMegaSat. We will continue to provide FTA Equipment for our loyal customers on Ebay and Amazon. Truth be told, a big reason for the low numbers at the HyperMegaSat.com store is a lot of customers prefer to buy at those places. We always tried to combat that with lower prices for our customers at our store by saving on the Ebay and Amazon fees, but alas, it only worked so well. Everything we sell at HyperMegaSat is available at our Ebay store, and a whole lot more other non-FTA stuff. At Amazon we only have FTA stuff, and only select items. We plan to add more FTA items soon to Amazon.
That is it. Thanks again to our customers for ALL THE GREAT YEARS.
And the HyperMegaSat.com store will be open for a few days yet.
Satellite Guys Members can save 10% using this code at Checkout - SAVE10
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back in 2006 and the Marquette FOX station was channel 4 in the group (on 11800)
(good golly I remember FTA when I had my house and I haven't lived there for 15 years)
I think you mean WMQF which was the FOX affiliate in Marquette, Michigan and had the Lions game, I remember those games back in the day and actually was able to record the game which left the Lions at 0-16 from that feed as the Vikings were on our local FOX here in Minnesota. Here was G18 (formerly G10 for us old school folks) list of Equity stations that we could get FTA
back in 2006 and the Marquette FOX station was channel 4 in the group (on 11800)(good golly I remember FTA when I had my house and I haven't lived there for 15 years)
Thanks for that Mr Tony. That old sat chart you posted brings it all back to me. Great channel line-up for Ku Band. It was called G10 then G18. Was it 123.0W? I think so. That is the sat that got me started/hooked on FTA.I think you mean WMQF which was the FOX affiliate in Marquette, Michigan and had the Lions game, I remember those games back in the day and actually was able to record the game which left the Lions at 0-16 from that feed as the Vikings were on our local FOX here in Minnesota. Here was G18 (formerly G10 for us old school folks) list of Equity stations that we could get FTA
(good golly I remember FTA when I had my house and I haven't lived there for 15 years)
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Ahhhh..... Memories ....
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129 had one FTA station (I forget the name of the station)
110 for my Dish network setup
Yup it was 123W. Had a dish aimed at it just for those stations with at least 3 or 4 receivers and vcrs hooked to it for the different programs on the different stations. Here are a couple of the dishes at the time on 123 and something else (not at the same time)Thanks for that Mr Tony. That old sat chart you posted brings it all back to me. Great channel line-up for Ku Band. It was called G10 then G18. Was it 123.0W? I think so. That is the sat that got me started/hooked on FTA.
Ahhhh..... Memories ....
129 had one FTA station (I forget the name of the station)
110 for my Dish network setup
Sad to hear you are closing the store and had to close your other sites.
I don't think people understand what it takes to runs these sites. My wife just did our taxes last night and this site lost $4,600 last year in costs. And then you have days like today with server issues which turn out of be hardware issues at the ISP that has you pulling your hair out and wanting to press the power button.
With that said I am doing all I can to keep us going. But with ad revenue almost non existent its getting harder and harder.
We talk about so much here now that has nothing to do with Satellite and I don't think a lot of people know this. I need to figure out a way to bring people in for things besides just satellite and also figure out a way to raise revenue, because I don't know how long the wife will continue to let me support the site I love.
Glad to hear you will continue with the other online sales.
My best to you!
I don't think people understand what it takes to runs these sites. My wife just did our taxes last night and this site lost $4,600 last year in costs. And then you have days like today with server issues which turn out of be hardware issues at the ISP that has you pulling your hair out and wanting to press the power button.
With that said I am doing all I can to keep us going. But with ad revenue almost non existent its getting harder and harder.
We talk about so much here now that has nothing to do with Satellite and I don't think a lot of people know this. I need to figure out a way to bring people in for things besides just satellite and also figure out a way to raise revenue, because I don't know how long the wife will continue to let me support the site I love.
Glad to hear you will continue with the other online sales.
My best to you!
A DVB-S signal with an FEC of 1/2 is super easy to receive.. like that booming "hotel mux" on 101 @ 12000 V 20000. Newer feeds
are using more complex modulations now requiring bigger and bigger dishes. I bet you could pick up 12000 V 20000 with a pie pan!
My brother knows an older gentleman who lives in a very rural part of NM. He's too far away from any FM radio signals for reliable reception. He does get a few AM stations, especially at night. He loves classical music though. One day I brought him an unused Winegard 76cm Satellite Dish and a spare GeosatPro Micro HD receiver I had lying around. Aimed @ 101 and got WCPE "The Classical Station" for him to hook into his stereo. The 12000 V 20000 transponder locks in solid, even when its raining. You should have seen the look on his face when first heard the station coming through.I bet you could pick up 12000 V 20000 with a pie pan!
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So I have recently setup Indoor OTA due to drop to Local from Dish, and found out reason why I have such bad signal is my Monitor now none of cable for my monitor near OTA or it cable going to TV, but the TV right above my Monitor maybe not even a foot.
If i have 3 to 2 bars with monitor off said channel for most part of perfectly watchable, but as soon my monitor is ON (show image of desktop or what ever) OTA going to TV halved that 3 to 2 bars become 1 and 2 if I lucky and channels start scrambling alot, and depending on what is being shown on monitor it might out right give no signal, and I can easily restore singal to being bad if change what show on monitor or bring back 3 to 2 bars if I turn monitor off or let it to to standby mode.
I have already disconnect every cable on TV except the OTA cable leaving just that so it not those cable. the Power cable for monitor and DP to DVI cable the monitor is using no where near that OTA cable either.
Any idea on how to fix this? moving my monitor isnt exactly an option neither is moving the tv and moving the OTA to other side room even with long cable dont fix this issue.
I have one those Leaf MoHu antennas 11x3 ones, I had same issue with one gateway mohu antennas the older one too
If i have 3 to 2 bars with monitor off said channel for most part of perfectly watchable, but as soon my monitor is ON (show image of desktop or what ever) OTA going to TV halved that 3 to 2 bars become 1 and 2 if I lucky and channels start scrambling alot, and depending on what is being shown on monitor it might out right give no signal, and I can easily restore singal to being bad if change what show on monitor or bring back 3 to 2 bars if I turn monitor off or let it to to standby mode.
I have already disconnect every cable on TV except the OTA cable leaving just that so it not those cable. the Power cable for monitor and DP to DVI cable the monitor is using no where near that OTA cable either.
Any idea on how to fix this? moving my monitor isnt exactly an option neither is moving the tv and moving the OTA to other side room even with long cable dont fix this issue.
I have one those Leaf MoHu antennas 11x3 ones, I had same issue with one gateway mohu antennas the older one too
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Do you have any splitters or combiners in between the antenna and TV? That can cause issues, especially indoors.
I would get that antenna into the attic or outside if at all possible.
And we need your Rabbitears reception report to really be able to provide answers specific to your location-
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I would get that antenna into the attic or outside if at all possible.
And we need your Rabbitears reception report to really be able to provide answers specific to your location-
RabbitEars.Info
RabbitEars, where you can learn all about local, over-the-air TV channels.
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I get I just need to short out the monitor from kill the signal to the tv cause the monitor being on and show image basically castrates signal
I just moved wires around moved power cord away data cord and what not, and some made this issue worse just have my monitor on and show image was enough to just kill signal, I went and moved monitors data cable DP to DVI cable and it came back even if was still spotty at best, now I think it DP to DVI cable I using considering moving seem maninpulate how bad the signal that cable is still no where near OTA cable or any cables going to the tv, the tv and monitor are on the same surge protector though
no spilter is just for my tvDo you have any splitters or combiners in between the antenna and TV? That can cause issues, especially indoors.
I would get that antenna into the attic or outside if at all possible.
And we need your Rabbitears reception report to really be able to provide answers specific to your location-
RabbitEars.Info
RabbitEars, where you can learn all about local, over-the-air TV channels.
I get I just need to short out the monitor from kill the signal to the tv cause the monitor being on and show image basically castrates signal
I just moved wires around moved power cord away data cord and what not, and some made this issue worse just have my monitor on and show image was enough to just kill signal, I went and moved monitors data cable DP to DVI cable and it came back even if was still spotty at best, now I think it DP to DVI cable I using considering moving seem maninpulate how bad the signal that cable is still no where near OTA cable or any cables going to the tv, the tv and monitor are on the same surge protector though
Well, it's grounded up to the Surge Protector anyways ... but if not 3rd prong, it's not grounded ... I don't recall if my TV's have a ground, guess I never thought about it ...
Now ya got me curious, I got to check.
Well, thats interesting, I thought all TV's were grounded ... guess not, maybe they figure if the voltage gets that far, its not going to save the TV ...
get rid of the monitor and plug the computer into the tv and use it as the monitor 
New low power station has been granted by the FCC and the new call leter is K33OB-D on RF ch. 33.
Will run at 15 KW ERP, this one runs from the Westside same location as KWPL-LD a HC2 owned station.
It's going to be aimed at eastern part of Albuquerque, so it's tightly focused beam pattern.
This new station is owned by Digital Network and what kind of programmings is unkown at this time.
Will run at 15 KW ERP, this one runs from the Westside same location as KWPL-LD a HC2 owned station.
It's going to be aimed at eastern part of Albuquerque, so it's tightly focused beam pattern.
This new station is owned by Digital Network and what kind of programmings is unkown at this time.
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The 'get after it media' stations
www.getafteritmedia.com
Like Heartland, Retro, rev'n, Action etc
probably the same programming they have been putting on their other owned stations.
The 'get after it media' stations
Get After It Media
www.getafteritmedia.com
Thanks Mr Tony, Hopefully no duplicates and put on like Revin, Karate movies.
It would be nice if they can put a least 2 HD 2 or 3 SD diginets for Albuquerque metro areas.
It would be nice if they can put a least 2 HD 2 or 3 SD diginets for Albuquerque metro areas.
Hope they got good subchannels encoder going there...
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I was pretty satisfied by the Finale as well. So many multi-season shows come up short, but this one was well done. The whole season has had a pretty high body count (including some of the executive producers
) so the tombstone seemed quite appropriate.
Hopefully the Gen V show sticks around a few more seasons.
) so the tombstone seemed quite appropriate.Hopefully the Gen V show sticks around a few more seasons.
I was pretty satisfied by the Finale as well. So many multi-season shows come up short, but this one was well done. The whole season has had a pretty high body count (including some of the executive producers
Hopefully the Gen V show sticks around a few more seasons.
Gen V was cancelled already. The story of The Boys is over, it's on to the prequel now.
All that buildup in their series and they were called useless, retconned and sidelined in the finale.
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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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Over the past year I have been tracking the changes on Western Arc. The past 3 months have had a lot of changes that I posted in the other MPEG2 Western Arc shutdown thread. Now that 129 is (basically) out of commission, here is where Western Arc stands. This is just a national channel list, (no local channels) based off what I can see and what others have contributed. Thanks to everyone who has helped me come up with the locations of some of the channels – I would try and list all of you out, but I know I would forget someone! As has been suggested in other parts of the forum, it would be great to collect the spotbeam data for those who could contribute!
A couple of pieces of info:
When I talk about number of channels on a transponder, all my numbers are unique channels – for example, channel 101 and 199 are the same channel mapped to two different numbers, but in terms of space, only takes up 1 channel worth of bandwidth on the transponder.
Finally, I have to give Dish a ton of credit. When it was 110/119/129, Dish had 82 transponders they were using – it took a lot to get it down to 50 transponders and figure out where all the pieces were going to go. What are the things they did to get there? Here are the things I saw:
A couple of pieces of info:
- Out of the 64 transponders between 110/119, there are currently 50 transponders that Dish is licensed to use. 22 are Spotbeams, 28 are ConUS transponders (14 transponders are licensed to DirecTV and Dish doesn't have access to them)
- Those 28 ConUS transponders are divided as follows:
- 10 are dedicated to National HD channels (ESPN, CNN, Disney Channel, etc). Dish is maxing out at 16 HD channels per transponder (note – in an earlier post I said there was one transponder with 17 HD channels, that was an error on my part. When I double checked my listings, one channel changed transponders). Before the transition, there was a maximum of 14 HD channels per transponder.
- 1 transponder is dedicated to adult content
- 2 are a mixture HD PPV Movies/4k channels
- 3 are set aside for HD Sports channels that are only on for live games (NBA League Pass, the PAC 12 alternate channels, some PPV events, etc); 3 SD PPV Sports Channels are there as well.
- 7 are for SD and/or music channels. Dish is maxing out at 26 SD channels per transponder thus far on the SD transponders.
- 5 transponders on 110 I have no channels listed but Dish operates. (they are labeled as ConUS on my chart below) There are other things that could be on those transponders, like RV Distant Networks, internal testing channels, etc, that I can't see. They might be able to be used for additional content, but I am not sure exactly what is on those transponders.
When I talk about number of channels on a transponder, all my numbers are unique channels – for example, channel 101 and 199 are the same channel mapped to two different numbers, but in terms of space, only takes up 1 channel worth of bandwidth on the transponder.
Finally, I have to give Dish a ton of credit. When it was 110/119/129, Dish had 82 transponders they were using – it took a lot to get it down to 50 transponders and figure out where all the pieces were going to go. What are the things they did to get there? Here are the things I saw:
- During this migration from 129, Dish converted 7 ConUS transponders on 119 into Spotbeams – that is how they ended up fitting on all the HD locals that used to be on 129. (for those interested, TP 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 are the ones that used to be ConUS on 119 that are now Spotbeam)
- Removed almost all SD duplicate channels that are offered in HD
- Converted remaining SD channels from MPEG2 to MPEG4
- There are also 2 subtle things that changed from the HD channel perspective
- At the beginning of the transition, Dish decreased the number of PPV Movie channels – prior to this transition the PPV channels HD PPV movies were 502-522; now they are 502-517.
- At the beginning of April when MLB, NBA, and NHL regular seasons were all going on at the same time and this transition began, there were a ton of games "joined in progress" for the HD feeds. That wasn't common since the days before the full time HD RSN's. The reason for that was prior to the transition, Dish had 4 transponders set aside for HD Sports – 2 transponders was the bandwidth set aside from the HD RSN's before Dish dropped the RSN's, then 2 transponders were for alternate channels. Now we are down to 3 transponders for HD sports.
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As you may have noticed we are doing a Fund Raiser for SatelliteGuys!
As many of you know I have been paying for a majority of the operation of the site out of my own pocket for awhile now. Now looking at things we have a number of renewals coming up that I could use some help with. These renewals include the license renewal for our Forum Software, Renewal of a number of our add on's the site uses, renewal of domain names etc.
I have set a goal of $400.00 - any extra that comes in will just go to fund the operations of the site. None of the money will go to me (I tried BuyMeACoffee a few months ago, and they denied me saying they do not do business with Satellite Piracy sites... which we are not... hell we host the beta programs for both DISH and DIRECTV here...)
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As many of you know I have been paying for a majority of the operation of the site out of my own pocket for awhile now. Now looking at things we have a number of renewals coming up that I could use some help with. These renewals include the license renewal for our Forum Software, Renewal of a number of our add on's the site uses, renewal of domain names etc.
I have set a goal of $400.00 - any extra that comes in will just go to fund the operations of the site. None of the money will go to me (I tried BuyMeACoffee a few months ago, and they denied me saying they do not do business with Satellite Piracy sites... which we are not... hell we host the beta programs for both DISH and DIRECTV here...)
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I planned on removing it today, but then my fathers car broke down and I had to drive him all around to get his stuff done. Then I had a doctors appointment after that which was annoying...
Dr asks me if I have had any changes, so I tell him something wrong with me that started a month or so ago and his reply back is, that it sucks to get old... I hate that. Why ask me. if your going to come back with a smart ass answer.
Anyays I hope to get rid of Tapatalk tomorrow.
And we had more people donate today, thank you! The extra money is going to future expenses since things like add ons don't expire at the same time.
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Dr asks me if I have had any changes, so I tell him something wrong with me that started a month or so ago and his reply back is, that it sucks to get old... I hate that. Why ask me. if your going to come back with a smart ass answer.
Anyays I hope to get rid of Tapatalk tomorrow.
And we had more people donate today, thank you! The extra money is going to future expenses since things like add ons don't expire at the same time.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU AGAIN!
Anyays I hope to get rid of Tapatalk tomorrow.
Tapatalk has been removed.
I have added a new feature which is a work in progress called "Social Feed" which displays the forums Facebook style. Its nice for people who like that, but needs work. But i have been watching this one for awhile and the author is being really responsive to suggestions and adding them. So if you have any please let me know and I can pass them along.
I have added a new feature which is a work in progress called "Social Feed" which displays the forums Facebook style. Its nice for people who like that, but needs work. But i have been watching this one for awhile and the author is being really responsive to suggestions and adding them. So if you have any please let me know and I can pass them along.
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Due to security concerns and the fact that the Tapatalk Plugin for Xenforo is no longer being updated we have removed Tapatalk support from SatelliteGuys.
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