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THE NEW 72.5 SATELLITE LOCALS THREAD

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I just spoke to a D* CSR who told me that Toledo locals will be turned on "sometime before the end of 2004" and that they "don't have any information on required equipment." D'oh!
 
In another thread I've mentioned that CSR told me that Cedar Rapids (first scheduled 10/5, then pushed to 10/12) won't be ready until early next year...

Basically I think the whole "72.5" thing is just "vaporware" -- to keep people like me, who are the very last D* subscriber in the area, from switching to E*.
 

Basically I think the whole "72.5" thing is just "vaporware"

I'm starting to agree. You would think since DTV is going to need tons of installers to put in new 72.5 dishes that we would start seeing people roll out to do them, even if the release dates were a couple of weeks off. I love my DTV, but it's starting to get annoying that the Fort Wayne locals are not online yet....
 
Yeah, I just bought a DirecTivo, so that locked me into a new year contract. I really hope they get the locals soon here in Champaign, really tick me off if they don't. I've got a new dish and switch on the way too, so I'll be ready for the 72.5 locals. I agree though, it's getting VERY frustrating. 3 more months to go in 2004, so they're running out of time for their 'coming in 2004' line. We shall see what happens. If anyone on the 72.5 list gets their locals, please let us know!

-Stan
 
Equipment setup

I just got my 2nd dish in the mail that I ordered so I decided to tinker with it. Using my nifty little satellite finder meter, I pointed the dish in the direction of the 72.5 bird. When I hook it up to the RCA DVR80, I get solid 90+ signals on all transponders between 1-16. 17-32 are completely dead. However, when I go to auto-detect the satellites, it doesn't seem to detect the 2nd dish as the 72.5 sat. I'm running 3.1.1d software on it, which others have said include the 72.5 dish feature but I'm starting to wonder about that. Does anyone who's gotten this to work have any ideas? Thanks!!

-Stan
 
That's just it, it couldn't detect it other than saying it was picking up transponders 1-16. It picks up my 101 off the other dish, but not the 72.5.

Stan
 
johninillinois said:
am thinking solid signal have the six x eight switch available now and be in the 100.00 range.
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I've got a 4x4 switch on the way next week, but shouldn't the latest software auto-detect the new 72.5 bird?

-Stan
 

Well it's definitely not 101, 110, or 119. I have dual tuners in the DirecTivo and it picks up the 101 off the main dish just fine. It's just not seeing the 72.5. So if it's not seeing 72.5, I don't know what it's seeing. I can go see if it sees any other signals in that area, but that was the strongest one. It wouldn't be picking up a dish network sat would it? The closest Dish bird is on 61. I'll go tinker some more with it I guess and see if I can figure it out.

-Stan
 

So it won't work without a switch, even it I just set it up for one tuner / one dish?

-Stan
 
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