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The installers have NOTHING to do with this. Reselling Dish requires DISH NETWORK contracts and they are what they are. Read: insanely stupid and counterproductive and a very good reason so many multi-family houses are hacked to cr*p by installers. Your father isn't likely to get money from...

Okay, once and for all: The ONLY lines in satellite that can be split are those carrying pure feed. NO splitters between the switch and the receivers. 1. 13/18VDC lines CAN be split, but ONLY if ONE power source is used and ONLY if the power level stays at that level such that it is kept...

Other than the one line vs. two line dual tuner thing, many installers don't understand and hence fear diplexors. Diplexing the second tuner output back to another point simplifies things tremendously, but too many installers simply refuse to use them, so they then assume a third line is...

Not really. Some toners detect splitters as a short by beeping but some don't. Some splitters are self-terminating, some aren't. You need one of those stud finders with the deep scan. Dish in-house (DNSC) uses them with a piece of corrugated cardboard right underneath on tar shingles and they...

Okay, here's how you do it with a 322. 1. Tell him that unless he pays for a remote control extender that will transmit the first tuner's remote signals back to the receiver, he will have to change channels at the box in the basement. 2. Use an amp for the channel 3/4 output so it will...

It might be simply better to find someone in the satellite business who has a current copy of the Perfect-10 catalog, and for a slight mark-up, will sell you the right tool for the job. You can also go to an electronics and electrical supply house and check with them. Lowes? Home Depot...

Jack Daniels. (It's a softer drink than some others... :D)

Forget the shot put and javelin. They need to have an event for catching those. "And the competitor from Poland is running, running, running... OH D*MN!!! ANOTHER competitor fails to turn and grab at the right moment. I think that wound might just be fatal folks." We need to add uphill ski...

Combined with in-dash flat screens, cordless shavers, and breakfast sandwiches, we know have the perfect line-up of distractions to ensure absolute and complete lack of safety on the nation's roads. What a tremendous feat we have accomplished. Maybe Nader should re-do Unsafe at Any Speed to...

To steal shamelessly from Dennis Miller, the Yankees had as many points in that Indian game as I did and I wasn't even playing. The Indians? How do you lose like that to the Indians? This would be like losing to the Cubs. Or your local high school team. Ouch.

CT requires a license but the DNSC operation has a principal with the former license and they are in the process of getting the new individual licenses for their techs. The phrase "when Hell freezes over" has been mumbled on the time frame. Not one CT contractor I know has one. The Department of...

Please specify their upper frequency limit and modulation standard. QAM256 has about 38.8Mbps per 6Mhz slot and you can do the math on a system that goes to 867Mhz. They have far more bandwidth that satellite does which operates usually on QPSK with 24Mhz slots. The only way DBS can have...

Dish Network is no different than any other antenna. It MUST be grounded properly, minimum to the National Electric Code, and legally, to local electrical building codes, whichever is more stringent. ALWAYS to household ground to prevent ground faults. NOT a separate ground source. Though...

Nonsense. I've worked outfits where four to six four-setters were expected PER DAY and had to be perfect and WERE QC'd, EVERY ONE. The biggest thing is whether the installer has A) experience and B) confidence. Lack of the first will doom the entire enterprise as there are always unexpected...

Believe it. Even FSMs have been known to ignore the grounding requirements on a regular basis and the QAS miss errors that Stevie Wonder would see in a fog. Grounding is NOT optional, and NOT to satisfy some anal executive management, and NOT to mollify the legal department. It is to prevent...

Wrong! Please re-read the NEC sections germane to satellite dishes and other RF antennas. :D The dish AND all coax lines must be grounded. It is the responsibility of the installer to do so and do so properly. If the combined length of the line from LNB through ground blocks to the receiver...

If you are a contractor, then you don't care, as long as they are over 18. If you are DNSC then, in theory, it MUST MUST MUST be the person whose name appear on the work order and NO ONE else, not even a spouse. In theory. Not like it is ever enforced in this reality.

SBCA I&II are a single day affair. If you've done about ten installs of either Dish or Direct and read these boards with attention to detail, you can pass the training and test pretty quickly. Eat, drink, and sleep this stuff and you'll be among the first five out of the room finished with their...

I think the fact that the contact e-mail is a Comcast CABLE modem account nails down yet another incarnation of the concept of irony. I know there's an SBC person involved with their Dish partnership looking at that and thunking their head on their keyboard.

Whether anyone likes it or not, the picture long term for DBS is not as bright as so many wish to believe. 1. The notion of career advancement by way of professional enrichment is completely nonexistant. While you can in cable achieve SCTE and NCTI certifications and mastery such that you...

They need to just start using phased arrays already. Any more of this and we're going to lose people to cable. "One line into my house versus twelve (censored for commercial) dishes on my (censored again) house?! No (censored yet again) way! I'll stick with cable." Cox will eventually jump...

Does anyone here ever rip a DVD? If you have then you've noted that the best quality you're going to get is an MPEG-4 codec straight from the disc. The disc is ALREADY in MPEG-2 format so you're converting once past the original uncompressed to MPEG-2 conversion. Ever convert an MPEG-4 AVI to...

I have Cox Digital Phone and it costs loads less than those scam artists at SBC, works great, and was connected straight over to my existing wiring. My same number was also ported on the spot with no delay. Of course, the CT DPUC would carve them a new orifice if they delayed at SBC, but that's...

To answer with another question, what do you think the world would think of using a Microsoft codec for streaming DBS and cable video? It's self-answering, really. Technically, WM9 is even less understood by less people than MPEG-4 is compared to MPEG-2. Need we make it worse? I...

MPEG-4 is more intense to process than MPEG-2 so it hasn't been until around oh, now, that chipsets to handle it have started becoming really availible in a meaningful way and they still aren't inexpensive enough to stuff digital cable and satellite boxes with them. Not that they don't exist...