My only experience with Dish-TV was several years back when I wanted
some German channels that the local channels did not carry.We had the
dish put into the back yard and it served well until I could get the
channels on my computer.The thing sits in the yard still, having
flowers run around it.
Before that we had some huge dish on the roof the reason for its
being has been lost in memory, but it still hangs there. The
neighborhood never complained.We always thought someone might want
them both to experiment.
Now I guess they are both to be put into the trash if I could just
find somebody to take them down.
I suppose I will live out my life with Insight, despite the fact that
I do NOT watch TV anymore, I can't handle the stupid advertising, but
my husband needs the sports and they are not with the basic stuff. So
we are bundled, as i call it. Insight has been actually quite nice
and I have had special deals, but we need a new TV, ours was a floor
model from the time I was still at The UofL from a place that does
not exist anymore, but the TV runs still. I retired in 88. The remote
we got from insight when we got the mystery box is on its last leg.
We need a bunch of stuff done, but when i think they will send
somebody who knows less than I, my blood already curdles.- My husband
just wants news, weather, sports. So I keep waiting to find somebody
to EXPLAIN why I need a box, when I might be able to buy a TV without
a box, why I have to go through those gyrations to first turn on TV,
then Cable, and Cable.like a Chameleon, constantly changes, and all
they want to tell me that they now have more and more channels which
are more of nothingness, and so help me God, when I see one more
weatherman or weather-woman make those hand movements over the screen
telling me of more ominous stuff that might come our way, I want to
say the magic word to turn them into a salt column like Lot's wife.
If anyone would like to come out and rid us of the Dishes, not my
eating stuff, although i might add a few old ones my grandmother
used- they call it here "antiques", I call them "old", and or would
give me a real lesson in what I have, what I should have, how to make
use of it most efficiently, I would be pleased. Pay, if not too high,
might be considered.
Marta
On Aug 22, 2009, at 09:17 AM, Robert Kersting wrote:
DirecTV's azimuth for Louisville is 206 degrees with an elevation of
43 degrees. You can set up a pretty easy jig to find an ideal spot in
your yard.
My apartment manager said I could install it as long as it wasn't
permanent and no holes were drilled for the cable. I mounted my dish
on a galvanized pipe about 6 feet long that I strapped to my balcony
railing with hose clamps. This also helped with the grounding issue.
Other people I know have done things like bolting it to a wooden box
that they nailed to the balcony floor or setting a pipe in a
five-gallon bucket filled with cement.
I ran the cable behind the porch lamp in the chase with the wiring.
The cable comes out through the light switch. There are also special
connectors available that let you go through patio doors or windows.
In the 12 years I had DirecTV, I only lost the signal about half a
dozen times. Especially after I got the larger dish. And I'm not sure
about a rooftop antenna, but my powered "rabbit ear" antenna loses the
local stations during bad storms also.
Marta, a court-ruling from several years ago says small dishes can't
be banned as long as they're installed on property that is exclusively
used by you. I'm not sure of the exact wording, but the backyard of a
house or the balcony of an apartment qualifies. If your neighbors
complain, you've got the right to look them in the eye and say "I'm
sorry, the US Supreme Court disagrees with you."
My biggest problem was the tree across the street. The first three
years I was shooting over it. Then it grew. Every couple of years I
had to move the satellite pole back a few feet to compensate.
My biggest problem, and the reason I took it down, is that the
programming began to suck so bad I wasn't watching but three or four
channels. And eventually, I was able to find those channels on the
Internet.
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Neal
Hammon<noham...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On this subject:
When installing a satellite dish, they need to have a clear view
to the
southern sky, at least with the Dish service. Therefore my dish is
installed
on the south side of my brick house, just above the telephone
service box,
and about nine feet above ground. I would have liked to have it
lower, so it
would be easier to clean off the snow in the winter, but they
needed that
height to have a clear view thru the trees.
Also, be aware that big thunderstorms will stop all satellite
transmissions.
To get around that, I have a large, old fashion aerial in my
attic, so that
during storms, I can at least switch off the satellite, and go
back to using
the aerial, and get the local stations such as 3, 11, 32, 15, etc.
Placing the dish on a post, as Marta suggested, is ok too, but you
may want
to check your neighborhood zoning. In some places, they do not
allow you to
have a dish in your front yard, and who knows what other
restrictions some
little village committees might come up with.
Neal Hammon
rural Shelby County
On Aug 421, 1120092007, at 10:47 PM, Marta Edie wrote:
No, they sit in the yard and you can camouflage them with plants,
they
only need enough free space above to focus on that satellite,
therefore you
are not free to choose the spot.
Marta
On Aug 21, 2009, at 22:36 pm, Andy Arnold wrote:
Good ideas. Do you have to have a dish hanging off your house to
get Dish
and the others? I think they are banned in my neighborhood!
On Aug 20, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Robert Kersting wrote:
IIRC, DirecTV and Dish offer hundreds of digital channels at no
extra
charge. Cheaper than Insight, better support and it's cheaper.
Yes,
you get all the local stuff too.
I'm really amazed more people don't take this route. Sure, your
internet access may go up a bit but it's a small price to pay.
Step two would be to call Insight and tell them you're
discontinuing
your cable TV in favor of a satellite dish. I'll bet they'll
come up
with some special pricing to keep you on board.
Just some thoughts.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Andy Arnold<andyarno...@mac.com>
wrote:
Any cable TV experts in the group?
I can't figure this whole racket out... I have a couple HD TVs
with
built-in
tuners... Insight wants $15 per month for their DVR which is
supposed
to
carry many more HD channels than if I plug the cable wire
directly into
the
HD TV. But this is a crude solution for many reasons (one of
which is
that
you can't sync the boxes) Plus I don't watch that much TV, so
$30 a
month
just for the box is crazy. I had heard that some TVs can
contain a
cable
decoder card that will allow the signal from all of Insight's
channels
to
come thru in HD. But now most manufacturers have abandoned that
strategy
because all TVs have a digital tuner built-in and if your
cable company
is
outputting unscrambled channels then you can tune all the
stations
through
the TV without a cable box or CableCard. Is the problem that
Insight is
behind the national curve and still scrambling most of their
stations?
Stop
the madness! Would love to hear what others are doing about
all of
this...
BTW, this is still a Mac topic because I have an AppleTV
thrown into
the mix
as well :-)
thanks
Andy
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