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I can only see Paid OTA taking off in three scenarios: 1) Rural areas where getting any OTA is difficult, and it's presented as a much cheaper alternative to satellite/cable. 2) Niche markets (Spanish, Immigrant communities) 3) They get sports channels people actually want at a price that...

Thanks! I'm not 100% sure, but I'm checking this weekend. FWIW I'm lucky, The little dish has been through 2 major wind storms without any notable damage.

So the big wind storm in Minnesota took out my Dish! Thankfully it looks okay, but the LNB holder cracked in half. Does anyone have a spare part? Also, if anyone has a 36" dish they'd like to unload in the area PM me. I could use an upgrade after 15 years :)

After this segment I could push 1000 wearable Trashbags in 15 minutes just by saying "The Moon's a Natural Satellite, also the Sun's a Star. Follow me for more 2nd Grade Science trivia."

12145V, 20000SR is a strong TP with multiple channels on it (NHK, CGTN, etc) plus some radio. Start with this if you're having a hard time getting some of the others. The NBC's are a bit weaker and might need some tweaking. Right now DW is a little tough for me, mostly because the wind blew my...

I'll have to keep an eye out on 97W. BVN and RTPi seem to have the best quality on there.

I remember early on I didn't have enough cable to get from my yard to the basement window - I threw in some RG-59. Stuff was breaking up all of the time no matter how much I tried to point the dish. A few days later I traded the small portion of 59 with RG-6. Night and day.

One of my favorite parts of the Mio is being able to play video on my computer from the box with ease -- REALLY nice for election night when keeping an eye on the horserace last week. However the radio channels seem to play randomly, or never at all. I've tried both VLC and SMPlayer (the latter...

This one for starters: https://www.linuxsat-support.com/thread/129844-jedi-maker-xtream-iptv-bouquet-creator-main-thread/ I mostly run m3u files on a USB drive now, but for awhile I tried this. It was okay, but names of the channels rarely worked.

It's up and down for me -- I loaded some (legal of course) News Channels and sometimes they play just fine, sometimes they stutter and die after a few minutes. And, honestly, the IPTV add-on for the Mio is quite bad so I've only used it a few times. I'm also using Ethernet.

How goes the playback on these things? I attempt to play some on VLC and things usually work, but I try it on the Mio and it'll work for a few minutes/seconds and then the stream will crap out.

I'm in Minnesota and have received this on a 1.2 before! It came on a smaller Primestar dish as well, so give it a chance! FWIW, I've received a few things on 58W on a miniBUD in the past so it's totally worth your time to experiment.

It's been awhile since I saw SMNI (fka KJC-TV) on 97 West, looks like there's been a crackdown: https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/january/fbi-kingdom-jesus-christ-childrens-joy-foundation-philippin.html The shows always seemed to be a duller version of the TBN but with a lot more...

It's TVK from Cambodia in 97W. I have no idea what the story was, but it's on there once in awhile. There's a lot of dancing and costumes, tho.

So you're watching a nature film late a night and go to bed. The next morning you turn on the TV and see: