BajaNomad

Dish TV in Baja

Pompano - 2-6-2006 at 12:13 PM

I have decided to switch from DirectTV..which is losing most of it's channels here anyway...to DishTV. Wayne (Nomad losfrailes) is doing the install today. Got here at 10:30 and is moving right along..if we can keep him away from the banana cream pie!

The old DirecWay TV was getting down to about 5% of what my subscription of $60 month was paying for...hence the reason for a change!

One can only watch so much CNN...phew..when I want a source even 'more' slanted and biased than CNN I will ask Hilary. Just before Felipa divorces me....

This new Dish system will bring us over 300 channels I am told. Sounds good to me...I am a surfer!

Here is the maestro, Wayne, doing his thing. I will post more as events develop, just in case anyone wants the same setup.

[Edited on 2-6-2006 by Pompano]

vandenberg - 2-6-2006 at 01:24 PM

Trouble is,you have to go back to the large, very unsightly, dish

comitan - 2-6-2006 at 01:32 PM

Vandenburg

No should be same size dish, its the C Band that has the Big Ugly Dish, that is what I have and I love it its about 1/3 the price of Direct TV, and for you to be better informed Direct TV gets thier orogramming from a C Band Sat. also C band is going digital and has more programming and doesn't lose its picture everytime it rains.

vandenberg - 2-6-2006 at 02:14 PM

Comitan

We're talking about DISH TV here, not Direct. Here in Loreto you need a large dish for you to be able to receive "ANY" Dish TV programming.

comitan - 2-6-2006 at 02:19 PM

In La Paz I'm told you have to have 2 meter dish for dish tv, when you were talking about a big unsightly dish I thought you were refering to C band 3+meter.

Dish and DirecTV dishes paralleled together!

Pompano - 2-6-2006 at 03:23 PM

The new Dish size is 1.2 meters and is actually hooked inline with the old 1 meter dish from DirecTV...that's right, we are using both together to give us a real strong signal.

This is state-of-weird-science by losfrailes. He be da Man! It is being programmed right now and we are awaiting the hundreds of channels promised!! Can you FEEL the tension!

[Edited on 2-6-2006 by Pompano]

comitan - 2-6-2006 at 04:03 PM

DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

vandenberg - 2-6-2006 at 04:06 PM

Pomp,
Please keep us posted and maybe explain how this works. Or maybe Los Frailes?:?::?::?:

Pompano - 2-6-2006 at 04:11 PM

Vandenburg....my granddaughter explained a thermos jug to me once....grrr. I am still trying to figure out velcro.

Roger...

Mexray - 2-6-2006 at 05:17 PM

...what we have here is a basic lack of communication...(via Satellite).

Last October when we were there on the 'beach', a Canadian couple with a big MoHo and their dish on a portable tripod (less than 1 mtr) aimed at a Canadian Satellite - and they got many, many different 'channels'...all the basic US networks, sports, etc. We could only get those few 'channels' you spoke of on our DTV we brought with us, hooked to our 1 mtr dish there on the palapa.

I asked the Canuck's if they had any problems with their recepction...no problemos...and they said the Satellite supplier in Canada didn't seem to care that they were using the service in the US or Mexico!

It looks like a good set-up to me, now all we need is a valid Canadian address to get hooked-up...

Also, you probably already noticed, but they're hooked up to Canadian Satellite service at the Pelican Bar in Muley-town.

Any others out there using the Canadian Satellite service?? Comments???

Bob and Susan - 2-6-2006 at 05:22 PM

Ray...go to dish and have Los Frailes set it up for you...

you won't be disappointed.

Roger...is there a PIE STATION????:lol:

Pompano - 2-6-2006 at 05:51 PM

Mexray...you have described Starchoice, I believe. That is a good satellite service available all over Mexico and Carib areas, too. Their footprint is one of the best for this area. You just get this nice gal up in Toronto or somewhere, pay her $50 a year for her Canadian address, buy your subscription, and bingo!..you are in business. The service and channel lineups are much better than DirecTV or Sky. Although this Dish setup today is the cat's meow...almost free and really too many channels. Losfrailes will do the job...you will be amazed. It beats Starchoice. I am getting it for my 5th Wheel for the summer trips Up North and into the boonies.

Over the years I have had them all. Many moons ago...the first large C-band dish set up in the Bay...a 20 footer. (The next guy to get it was John Sturgis, the director who made a few old action movies, like Bad Day at Eagle Rock, The Dirty Dozen, etc....know what he liked to watch?....'I Love Lucy' reruns.) Pirated chips, coded numbers that Jens the ex-Green Angle used to hold us up for...literally, that old pirate. Then came the smaller dish stuff...digital DirecTV, Sky, Paladin, Pegasus, etc, etc...I used them all. All this to watch Andy of Mayberry. The history of satellite tv in Baja Sur is a great memory of passionate viewers!

wornout - 2-6-2006 at 06:40 PM

Wednesday, Feb 8th, at 3pm Pacific on Dish Network Channel 101, they are broadcasting the launch of one of their new satellites. I am a dish subscriber. Let's hope this new bird does not do to dish what the directv satellite did to their channels!

losfrailes - 2-7-2006 at 05:16 PM

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Originally posted by comitan
DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


No one is holding their breath. All are inhaling very good TV fare.

It just takes an open, forward thinking, optomistic mind to see beyond ones own ideas.

Try it!

comitan - 2-7-2006 at 06:07 PM

Frailes

Just tell me one thing did you end up using both dishes in line or did you have a switch.

capt. mike - 2-8-2006 at 06:36 AM

i dumped dish network a few months ago and switched to Directv - and am totally impressed and satisfied over what Dish net had.

and the High Def channels are awesome! both sat and local off air. so i am bringing one of the directv receivers down to my palapa where a 1.2 meter dish is being rigged now.
if in fact the directv has crappy selection, and i only am interested in a few channels anyway, i can always re start the card on my old Dish sys and bring it down i guess.

wonder if the LNBs care which receiver you have? well, Los Frailes to the rescue??

BajaRescue - 3-5-2006 at 05:46 AM

capt. mike,

Your LNB should work with either system.

Star Choice TV

rocknrog - 5-24-2006 at 09:08 PM

I'm in Loreto I'm a Gringo, I have Star Choice TV, pay around 40 a month US on line it is easy, have around 200 channels. Ran into a guy his name is Frank he got me the canadian address and activated the unit mailed it to my address in the states, I love it what a great system here is his # 623-202-1380 call him he can do it. Happy TV Junkie in Loreto

Sat reception in Todos/Cabo area

Lee - 10-2-2006 at 05:22 PM

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Originally posted by Pompano
I have decided to switch from DirectTV..which is losing most of it's channels here anyway...to DishTV. Wayne (Nomad losfrailes) is doing the install today. Got here at 10:30 and is moving right along..if we can keep him away from the banana cream pie!

The old DirecWay TV was getting down to about 5% of what my subscription of $60 month was paying for...hence the reason for a change!
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I'm trying for clarification here. I think Pampano is calling DirecWay TV "DirectTV."

I was thinking DirecTV is what I have in Colorado -- which isn't DirecWay TV.

Anyway, I bumped into a guy with a huge Class A a few years ago at San Pedrito RV Park (Pescadero/Cerritos area), he had a 1m dish outside on a tripod, and a DirecTV receiver inside. He said he was getting every channel there as he got at home.

So, does anyone know if that kind of reception has changed? If that's still the case, that's my plan too.

Regards,

Lee