If I were you, I would change my service address to Green Bay and watch the Packers instead of the Bears. 
Can I get the Locals of CHICAGO while in MINNEAPOLIS?
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If I were you, I would change my service address to Green Bay and watch the Packers instead of the Bears!
I'll take anything I can get, even the Packers. There isn't much out there for conus HD networks in the fringe. Surely Green Bay is on a spotbeam.
I miss the days when you could call up and "move". Now you need to have a friend or relative in the area and send them a slingbox to get the full games in HD. I was a Sunday Ticket sub for about 7 years until it got too expensive. Nowadays I will go sit at a local Steeler bar or catch what I can on the Redzone channel. Maybe the new CBA will include allowing Sunday ticket on all providers and cheaper prices. A guy can dream.
My advice is move the service address back to MN, and hook up with AAD. You may just subscribe to Fox Chicago HD and pay less than $4 / month.
Like Jim pointed out, just don't let you neighbors know...
Like Jim pointed out, just don't let you neighbors know...
61.5
61.5 may be your answer. Get a large dish for just it. Say .9 meter. and get it pointed to 61.5. It's spotbeam will most likely work w/ that size dish. SatelliteGuys.US_TheList - DISH Network 61.5°W So go EA and add the bigger dish is only possible way I see where you are. Man you guys aren't thinking outside of the box today.
61.5 may be your answer. Get a large dish for just it. Say .9 meter. and get it pointed to 61.5. It's spotbeam will most likely work w/ that size dish. SatelliteGuys.US_TheList - DISH Network 61.5°W So go EA and add the bigger dish is only possible way I see where you are. Man you guys aren't thinking outside of the box today.
I am in the central wisconsin area and was getting the chicago HD channels on satellite 129 until they changed the spot beam, I then reset ny dishs to receive the eastern arc 61.5,72,5 77 and receive all the chicago channels in Hd and SD including channel 26 which has some cub games on. Don't kown if it will work as far east as the twin cities.
Another alternative is mydistantnetworks.com. They offer Chicago and LA in HD if you provide the "correct" address. All you do is enter your box number, put it on a credit card. I could not get HD on my nets and did this for about a year before dish turned my top dish from 61.5 to 129 and I "moved"
Don't feel too bad. I wanted to try the same thing down here in Louisville, KY, but I can't get the Chicago locals either. I'm just too far out of the beam. It sucks cause I'm Chicago born & raised. I love watching the Bears (lose).
Ghpr13
Don't feel too bad. I wanted to try the same thing down here in Louisville, KY, but I can't get the Chicago locals either. I'm just too far out of the beam. It sucks cause I'm Chicago born & raised. I love watching the Bears (lose).
Ghpr13
Not today!
I don't know about that, or the accuracy of some of the coverage maps.
This spotbeam covers the Omaha NE DMA, and there's barely any of the covered area inside the red line.
E12_SB15
I am outside the 61.5 spotbeam 15 and am getting locals from yet a different DMA, Lincoln, NE. I am looking to "move" to St. Louis to get their locals off of 61.5 SB 14, which actually covers where I live!
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong...
You can check your reception. Go to Menu 6-1-1 to check signal strength. Go to Sat 61.5 and transponder 6 and see what your signal strength is. If you are locked "Green", you should be good to go.
See SatelliteGuys.US_TheList - DISH Network 61.5°W
That's the same beam I already gave him. But you make a good point. If he can get a signal on the beam, and it's actually on transponder 15, Spotbeam 6, he's good to go.....
That's right, transponder 15. If he does get transponder 15, is there another spotbeam TS-15 he could be seeing?
It wouldn't seem so. There are spots for New York, NY, Dallas, TX, Norfolk, VA, Des Moines, IA, Grand Rapids, MI and Orlando and Ft Meyers, FL. The latter two are pretty tight and and are unlikely to reach any part of the Panhandle.
I agree with the above. Put a 61.5 dish up and see if you get the 11 transponder.
