How to get Distants from NPS
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Very poor PQ on NPS channels 5731-5738
Don't waste your $9.00. I compared their PQ on 5731-5738 compared to spot beams of SF from 110 and the national feed from Atlanta on 110, and the NPS signals on 119 transponder 15 really suck. I suppose that they are better than nothing, but I suspect that since they are a C-Band provider, they are getting the analog feeds there and re-transmitting them on the Ku Band. Let's hope it is just temporary.
Don't waste your $9.00. I compared their PQ on 5731-5738 compared to spot beams of SF from 110 and the national feed from Atlanta on 110, and the NPS signals on 119 transponder 15 really suck. I suppose that they are better than nothing, but I suspect that since they are a C-Band provider, they are getting the analog feeds there and re-transmitting them on the Ku Band. Let's hope it is just temporary.
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If they would allow the markets not served on Dish Network to receive the neighboring market(s) then that would solve the problem for distant networks.
This is really discouraging. I'm still trying to get these signals activated but if they look as bad as people say they do, I'll shut them off in 5 minutes. NPS must not know what they are doing when trying to uplink these for DBS customers.
Now how would a site that says it permanantly bans hackers allow someone to be able to compare all these signals without hacking
Read the C Band Forum. The stuff that NPS is uplinking for 4DTV customers leaves PQ to be desired.
Just read through this thread and only saw a few fleeting references to HD DNS. Is NPS even offering that? Or is all this "do I qualify?" hoop-jumping only going to get you, in the best possible scenario, SD networks from Atlanta and SF? What if Dish offers LiL SD in your market but not HD and you can't get it OTA? Can you qualify for HD DNS from NPS?
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After reading your post I tried several times - I also now never get a male voice. There were a couple of early posts I believe that said they also encountered the two voices. Don't know what happened. Also, when I put in my American Express it kept asking for a card number, changing to Visa allowed it to go thru.
Looks like while my serivce address was originally in a white area, Dish started offering LiL from a nearby market since I set up the address. I'm guessing that's why I'm inelgible to get anything from NPS.
Has anybody tried "moving" again since 12/1 to get service from NPS.
Has anybody tried "moving" again since 12/1 to get service from NPS.
I was confirmed by email on Dec 2 and still haven't got my channels. I emailed NPS and they sent me their FAQS, not a reply. I emailed again and will try to call again ((i called on 12/3 and was confirmed there as well, but did not talk to a live person) How frustrating.
Hey...
So after reading through several threads on this, it appears that in order to be qualified by NPS you must be an active Dish Network customer and have your phone number in their database already. So even though they NPS is supposedly operating completely separate from Dish, you can't just take an old unactivated E* receiver and sign up.... you need to be an current customer. Is that correct?
Thanks,
Derek
So after reading through several threads on this, it appears that in order to be qualified by NPS you must be an active Dish Network customer and have your phone number in their database already. So even though they NPS is supposedly operating completely separate from Dish, you can't just take an old unactivated E* receiver and sign up.... you need to be an current customer. Is that correct?
Thanks,
Derek
I applied for the NPS net feeds on the internet. Answered their questions and received all network feeds 20 hours later.
With two #311's have feeds and 44 hour guide for the new channels.
With a #625 receiver, received all feeds at the same time as the #311's but instead of a 9 day guide with the #625 on the new NPS feeds, I have a 2 hour advance from current time only. Did a couple of reboots on the #625 hoping for a guide update but no go. Perhaps an overnight load will put the guide correct on the #625.
The feeds from Atlanta and San Francisco are not direct feeds from the stations but appear to be off-air pickups with multi path reception.
If NPS or All American Direct (whatever) hope to acquire and hold new customers in potentially very large numbers, they need to fiber optic the pick ups.
Come on NPS the big bucks are there, lets improve the signal quality. :up
With two #311's have feeds and 44 hour guide for the new channels.
With a #625 receiver, received all feeds at the same time as the #311's but instead of a 9 day guide with the #625 on the new NPS feeds, I have a 2 hour advance from current time only. Did a couple of reboots on the #625 hoping for a guide update but no go. Perhaps an overnight load will put the guide correct on the #625.
The feeds from Atlanta and San Francisco are not direct feeds from the stations but appear to be off-air pickups with multi path reception.
If NPS or All American Direct (whatever) hope to acquire and hold new customers in potentially very large numbers, they need to fiber optic the pick ups.
Come on NPS the big bucks are there, lets improve the signal quality. :up
Well just an update, I finally called NPS and told them that I used to be a Dish customer and still had the dish and receiver with the newer yellow card. They asked for my phone number but of course it wasn't in their database. The lady then told me that I'd first have to call Dish and sign up again before they could offer me service. I told her the hardware is good, and that if I wanted I could call and sign up for SkyAngel and not have Dish first. I don't think she was familiar with that as she again just said I needed to be E* customer first. The whole NPS/Dish Network operating independent of each other doesn't seem to be happening.
The overnight load corrected the guide issue with the #625 receiver. It now has 9 days guide for the new channels. :up
That doesn't pass the smell test! Must be a E* customer before All America Direct/NPS will allow you to get DNS from them. Well I imagine if you don't have E* equipment that All American Direct would be glad to install it for you and sign you up for E* programming as it has been posted that they are a E* retailer.
