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Just a few hours from now it will be 2026 here in the USA. For other parts of the world you are already in 2026... so Happy New Year to All.
2025 is a strange year for SatelliteGuys, but good news is we survived. And even better news we had a big outpouring of financial support over the past week from our members so we can keep this place going way into next year without me having to pay the costs out of my own pocket! To all those folks I say THANK YOU for your support and help in helping us keep the lights on. This outpouring of financial support was very surprising and very much appreciated!
Now on to 2026!
2026 is going to be a year of Change for SatelliteGuys... yeah I know people hate Change... but one of my main goals of 2026 is to get more people involved and participating in the site.
Now the number of folks visiting the site is still amazing, just this month alone so far we have served 9,672,591 pages to 2,244,708 unique visitors!
The issue is many people are reading, but most are not participating. I would love to see more people participating!
But let's be honest not many people are talking about Satellite as (again being honest) there is not much to talk about in the world of Satellite. Therefore in 2026 we will be changing our name to a new one which hopefully will let people know we are so much more then just Satellite. And since TV is a large portion of what we talk about here we are going to put TV in our name. Soon in 2026 SatelliteGuys will be known as...
Yes folks... TVGUYS.US will be our new name. The logo above is not our final logo... but I do like that the TV is... chatting about TV. Here we can talk about TV, the hardware, the programming, the distribution methods (Satellite, IPTV, Over the air) and so on.
But that's not all I have been going through the site and taking notice of what are some of the most popular topics here outside of the Satellite areas, and many of them are within our Pub Member area. I plan on adding a bunch of new forums dedicated to what has been and is popular in our Pub Member area. I realize some folks may not like this as they like the privacy of chatting in the Pub Member area... well for those folks they can continue talking there as well. But I do hope over time they will help us and participate in the public version of those topics that we will introduce.
In addition there will be additional new forums, and the forums layout will be a little different in order to show folks we are more then just Satellite. And with that said I know some folks hate change... and I am one of them. But for us to survive and move forward some changes are needed. And while the changes will move some stuff around, I do not expect it to be a drastic change. I hope everyone can accept these changes.
As always I would love feedback and new ideas. And if someone wants to help us and moderate a forum I would welcome that as well. The more people we get involved the better this place can be.
I have said it before but will say it again... we have an amazing server, we have the best forum software running the best forum add ons, we just want more people to use it.. and participate in it. This site is is like the field of dreams... and with a little work it is my hope more will come and be part of our family.
Ad revenue for the year is way... way down... but the way I look at it, that's ok... SatelliteGuys was never formed to make a profit, it was made for people to come together to chat about common interests. And with the recent wave of donations I am actually considering making the site ad free... at least for awhile.
Since moving off of AdVally (who never paid a cent for the few months we were running it...) we moved back to our previous 3 ad agencies. And in that move here is our earnings (so far) for December.
Google Adsense - $9.07
PubGalaxy - $16.08
MoneyBox - $66.82
I am not sure if I will drop all ads or keep only MoneyBox. I am worried if I drop them and then try using them again a few months later that they may turn us off for inactivity.
So I need to figure out if we go ad free for a bit or just keep one ad agency. And if I keep one ad agency my plan is to show ads only to the Unregistered / Not Logged in users. This could foster more people joining us and in turn because they are now members may actually participate... and that would be AMAZING for me.
So in closing much needed changes for 2026... and again I know people hate change. So I hope folks will give it a chance.
And let me say again a genuine THANK YOU for all the surprise donations given to us over the past week. As I explained in in the Pub Members area, seeing all those donations come in made me feel like George Bailey at the end of the move "It's a Wonderful life." Thank you for putting your trust in me and for giving a complete strange money to keep this site going. That means a lot... so once again THANK YOU.
2025 sucked for most of us, for me personally it was a tough year, especially with the loss of my mom back in August. But we made it through 2025. When you are down the only direction to look is up.
Thank you everyone! I wish you all Love, Peace, Good Health and Happiness in the new year! Happy New Year to all!
And now a live look at Time Square.
View: https://www.youtube.com/live/rnXIjl_Rzy4?si=FdWLZAl8gPaQ1-4Z
2025 is a strange year for SatelliteGuys, but good news is we survived. And even better news we had a big outpouring of financial support over the past week from our members so we can keep this place going way into next year without me having to pay the costs out of my own pocket! To all those folks I say THANK YOU for your support and help in helping us keep the lights on. This outpouring of financial support was very surprising and very much appreciated!
Now on to 2026!
2026 is going to be a year of Change for SatelliteGuys... yeah I know people hate Change... but one of my main goals of 2026 is to get more people involved and participating in the site.
Now the number of folks visiting the site is still amazing, just this month alone so far we have served 9,672,591 pages to 2,244,708 unique visitors!
The issue is many people are reading, but most are not participating. I would love to see more people participating!
But let's be honest not many people are talking about Satellite as (again being honest) there is not much to talk about in the world of Satellite. Therefore in 2026 we will be changing our name to a new one which hopefully will let people know we are so much more then just Satellite. And since TV is a large portion of what we talk about here we are going to put TV in our name. Soon in 2026 SatelliteGuys will be known as...
Yes folks... TVGUYS.US will be our new name. The logo above is not our final logo... but I do like that the TV is... chatting about TV. Here we can talk about TV, the hardware, the programming, the distribution methods (Satellite, IPTV, Over the air) and so on.
But that's not all I have been going through the site and taking notice of what are some of the most popular topics here outside of the Satellite areas, and many of them are within our Pub Member area. I plan on adding a bunch of new forums dedicated to what has been and is popular in our Pub Member area. I realize some folks may not like this as they like the privacy of chatting in the Pub Member area... well for those folks they can continue talking there as well. But I do hope over time they will help us and participate in the public version of those topics that we will introduce.
In addition there will be additional new forums, and the forums layout will be a little different in order to show folks we are more then just Satellite. And with that said I know some folks hate change... and I am one of them. But for us to survive and move forward some changes are needed. And while the changes will move some stuff around, I do not expect it to be a drastic change. I hope everyone can accept these changes.
As always I would love feedback and new ideas. And if someone wants to help us and moderate a forum I would welcome that as well. The more people we get involved the better this place can be.
I have said it before but will say it again... we have an amazing server, we have the best forum software running the best forum add ons, we just want more people to use it.. and participate in it. This site is is like the field of dreams... and with a little work it is my hope more will come and be part of our family.
Ad revenue for the year is way... way down... but the way I look at it, that's ok... SatelliteGuys was never formed to make a profit, it was made for people to come together to chat about common interests. And with the recent wave of donations I am actually considering making the site ad free... at least for awhile.
Since moving off of AdVally (who never paid a cent for the few months we were running it...) we moved back to our previous 3 ad agencies. And in that move here is our earnings (so far) for December.
Google Adsense - $9.07
PubGalaxy - $16.08
MoneyBox - $66.82
I am not sure if I will drop all ads or keep only MoneyBox. I am worried if I drop them and then try using them again a few months later that they may turn us off for inactivity.
So I need to figure out if we go ad free for a bit or just keep one ad agency. And if I keep one ad agency my plan is to show ads only to the Unregistered / Not Logged in users. This could foster more people joining us and in turn because they are now members may actually participate... and that would be AMAZING for me.
So in closing much needed changes for 2026... and again I know people hate change. So I hope folks will give it a chance.
And let me say again a genuine THANK YOU for all the surprise donations given to us over the past week. As I explained in in the Pub Members area, seeing all those donations come in made me feel like George Bailey at the end of the move "It's a Wonderful life." Thank you for putting your trust in me and for giving a complete strange money to keep this site going. That means a lot... so once again THANK YOU.
2025 sucked for most of us, for me personally it was a tough year, especially with the loss of my mom back in August. But we made it through 2025. When you are down the only direction to look is up.
Thank you everyone! I wish you all Love, Peace, Good Health and Happiness in the new year! Happy New Year to all!
And now a live look at Time Square.
View: https://www.youtube.com/live/rnXIjl_Rzy4?si=FdWLZAl8gPaQ1-4Z
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Of course!
You can go to tvguys.us now and it comes here.
Because of of our mods we have are no longer made are registered to satelliteguys.us if I changed the name those mods would stop working.
So we will ALWAYS be SatelliteGuys, but we will be known as TVGUYS going forward which is good, as I know so many people who have trouble spelling the word SATELLITE.
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Right, just like people had trouble pronouncing "Echosphere" so Charlie changed it to "Echostar".Of course!
You can go to tvguys.us now and it comes here.
Because of of our mods we have are no longer made are registered to satelliteguys.us if I changed the name those mods would stop working.
So we will ALWAYS be SatelliteGuys, but we will be known as TVGUYS going forward which is good, as I know so many people who have trouble spelling the word SATELLITE.
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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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College Football Playoff nears agreement on 24-team expansion that could end title games
The College Football Playoff field is about to get much more crowded as the conferences near a deal to double the size of the field to 24 teams starting next year
www.cbssports.com
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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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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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Can't imagine what the son is going through.
Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster
Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.
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Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
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Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?
Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…
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 ...
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Browns lose a close one with... The Jets. That is a classic Browns loss (granted, any loss is a classic one it seems). 49'ers, Vikings, and Chiefs remain undefeated. The AFC north have a three way tie at 3-2 for second place.
A big win for the Patriots, and they are now 3-2.
Browns lose a close one with... The Jets. That is a classic Browns loss (granted, any loss is a classic one it seems). 49'ers, Vikings, and Chiefs remain undefeated. The AFC north have a three way tie at 3-2 for second place.
Troy Aikman seems to confirm he'll be leaving ESPN
Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
www.nbcsports.com
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.Troy Aikman seems to confirm he'll be leaving ESPN
Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
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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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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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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.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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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.
deadline.com
Mark Harmon Returning To 'NCIS: Origins' As Gibbs For Season 3
Mark Harmon is returning to NCIS: Origins for a season-long arc.
deadline.com
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?
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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Tony as the director.
Would you rather have LaRoche ???Tony as the director.
OTHER Mini Multiswitch
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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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.
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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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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I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now. We are rocking now!
We are rocking now!
Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.