Dish secure signal status?
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There is a youtube video that looks and sounds similar to the one that is running right now.
That one advises pirates to call the customer service number and tell them you are "dish ready". They "promise" to treat you just like any other customer.
I have a feeling that anyone who called and told them that might have found themselves in some trouble.
I thought something was really wrong, even though I KNEW that my firmware is legit. Once I found the same channels on all three of my receivers, I knew that Dish must have mis-flagged the channel as FTA.
That one advises pirates to call the customer service number and tell them you are "dish ready". They "promise" to treat you just like any other customer.
I have a feeling that anyone who called and told them that might have found themselves in some trouble.
I thought something was really wrong, even though I KNEW that my firmware is legit. Once I found the same channels on all three of my receivers, I knew that Dish must have mis-flagged the channel as FTA.
You do know that in Charlie Ergen's view, anyone with a satellite antenna on their property that isn't paying monthly fees to either him or DirecTV, is, or should be illegal. He doesn't like competition especially if it's free, and besides, it's unamerican to not pay the greedy b&st&rds whatever they feel like charging.
With the channel in the clear, he can probably fool a few uninformed, true FTA viewers into thinking they need to get legal by subscribing. Although I seriously doubt there are very many true FTA viewers who would be fooled by such a tactic.
The European market is much different than here. They also do not operate a subscription service in Europe.
The THREE Channel Masters aren't too shabby either! :up
Probably because his tactics wouldn't be tolerated there...
Probably because his tactics wouldn't be tolerated there...
There is something unusual about your dish farm photo.
The small dish on the right has its pole in front of the big mesh dish. However, the small dish itself is behind the big dish's pole.
Doesn't look right -- is it just me or do you see what I mean?
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Perhaps the pole the dish is mounted on, is behind the pole in the foreground. (That pole automagically lines up with the pole in the foreground.)
I just noticed that myself! Yeah, the pole for the 1.0 in front is directly in line with the pole that holds the switchbox. Didn't even notice that when I snapped the pic! That dish is looking at G18, the gray 1.2 in the middle is on AMC21, and the white 1.2 is currently on AMC6. (That one usually gets re-pointed during sporting events!)
The closer BUD is my 7.5ft Winegard and the 10 footer is way out front. It was there many years before all the other ones "sprouted up." 
I can get that sat in just fine here in Florida, so there should be no problem getting it in Alabama.
In the Pic there a 3 shadows, and what looks to be only 2 poles, maybe 2 poles are lined up in the photo.
I'd like to just lay in the sand there, and make "Sand" Angels.
2 poles lined up, that was my guess.
2 poles lined up, that was my guess.
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