Pompano
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Dish TV in Baja
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]
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vandenberg
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Trouble is,you have to go back to the large, very unsightly, dish
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comitan
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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.
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vandenberg
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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.
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comitan
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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.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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Pompano
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Dish and DirecTV dishes paralleled together!
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]
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comitan
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DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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vandenberg
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Pomp,
Please keep us posted and maybe explain how this works. Or maybe Los Frailes?
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Pompano
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Vandenburg....my granddaughter explained a thermos jug to me once....grrr. I am still trying to figure out velcro.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Roger...
...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???
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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Bob and Susan
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Ray...go to dish and have Los Frailes set it up for you...
you won't be disappointed.
Roger...is there a PIE STATION????
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Pompano
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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!
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wornout
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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!
This Space Available, E-Mail Me If Interested.
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| Quote: | 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!
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Frailes
Just tell me one thing did you end up using both dishes in line or did you have a switch.
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Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
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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??
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BajaRescue
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capt. mike,
Your LNB should work with either system.
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rocknrog
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Star Choice TV
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
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Sat reception in Todos/Cabo area
| Quote: | 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,
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F*ck it.
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