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If you want to make sure your FTA box is working (for those who only use it for the Sioux) there is a football game on there right now Montana vs. South Dakota Stae (feed is up now at 1:30 CDT) IA8 12044 freq V 6148 symbol rate Good way to make sure your dish is tuned properly

rumour is 6148 might be the symbol rate

Saturday's Montana state game isn't televised The 1st two arent but the ones form 9/16 on are. Montana has all games televised. I'm still trying to find out if next weeks Northeastern/NDSU game that WDAY/WDAZ and the other ABC's in NoDak are showing will be on FTA somewhere.

normally they do which makes it weirdr. Last year they posted them for the alumni to tune in the games (also the whole state of Montana shows the games so they pick the feed up and insert their own commercials) so this is just odd. Maybe they'll update it in the next day or so. Otherwise I'll post them when I find it. It probably won't be 4880 The feed last year came up 1/2 hour earlier (1:30 CDT).

Well this is interesting (and might help us with testing signal quality) Saturday

As bincity said, real easy to set up. Couple hundred bucks shipped. If you have SIoux fans nearby, you can be a popular person I usually have a couple Sioux fans over (they live in apartments and can't put a dish up) so they're usually over WELL worth it. Get a motor and you can see more college games than you can imagine. I saw (until it started pouring) about 15 college FB games on FTA today.

why not? all you need is a free to air reciever, a 30" dish and a KU Band LNB and you're set

yes I know the difference. But if they were going to show it on WDAZ then they would I think DAZ doesn't want to spend the money. Look at this years schedule. NO away games

The thing to realize is since WDAZ is a Network affiliate, they can only pre-empt so many times before the network gets pissy. They (the network) got pissy at WDIO in Duluth for showing a few Friday UMD games and pre-empting programming. Believe me, I'd LOVE to see more games on TV

I checked the UNI site and there is no TV for them. So if WDAZ was to show it, they'd have to run the crew to it. Thats what I thought too. Maybe its a "maybe" game for them to televise thats what I thought

FSSN schedule http://www.theralph.com/new2/Watch_The_Sio...h_The_Sioux.php http://siouxsports.com/forums/index.php?sh...mp;#entry180464

Hot off the press (well, the website) FSSN schedule Sat, Sep 09 Sun, Oct 01 Manitoba Fri, Oct 06 Quinnipiac Sat, Oct 07 Quinnipiac Fri, Oct 20 Maine Sat, Oct 21 Maine Sat, Oct 28 Duluth (FOOTBALL) Fri, Nov 03 St. Cloud Sat, Nov 04 St. Cloud Sat, Nov 11 Univ. South Dakota (FOOTBALL) Tue, Nov 21 Northern State (M/W B-BALL) Fri, Nov 24 Colorado College Sat, Nov 25 Colorado College Fri, Dec 01 U.S. 18's Fri, Dec 08 Wisconsin Sat, Dec 09 Wisconsin Fri, Dec 15 Michigan Tech Sat, Dec 16 Michigan Tech Thurs, Jan 04 St. Cloud (M/W B-BALL) Fri, Jan 12 Alaska Sat, Jan 13 Alaska Sat, Jan 20 Bemidji Fri, Feb 09 Mankato Sat, Feb 10 Mankato Fri, Feb 16 Duluth Sat, Feb 17 Duluth Fri, Mar 09 Play Offs Sat, Mar 10 Play Offs Sun, Mar 11 Play Offs *All programming is subject to change http://www.theralph.com/new2/Watch_The_Sio...h_The_Sioux.php What's weird is they have 3 dates on there but no games Sept 9 Dec 2 Feb 15 Feb 15th is a Thursday so maybe B-Ball. Dec 2 no games but next Saturday they have a blank space...hmmmm

forgot to mention that...lots of boxes don't have IA8 in them. IA8 is a new satellite (last year it was new). Its a replacement for Telstar 4 (T4) which blew up a few years ago. I had to add it on most of my boxes glad its working out

well they FINALLY updated the ralph site with the info http://www.theralph.com/new2/Watch_The_Sio...n/Satellite.htm

No boxes really tell you exactly where you are Yes the latitude is 44. Now on the motor there may be a latitude side and an elevation side. Latitude side-44 Elevation side-46 Dish elevation gets set to 23. (I

Welcome to the forum The machine doesn

that was a one time shot and only GF could see it. Nobody else could (other areas that had FSSN)

They're on C-Band (137W AMC7). There use to be 7 stations on the transponder. The 6 Anchoarge networks and a "hockey feed" that had color bars until game time then the game The 6 Nets are scrmabled but then hockey feed is still there I have a C-Band dish but can't see over that far (house next to me blocks view) I always told PSB one of these days I'm going to put the dish in the front driveway The road games (if televised) seem to be on Galaxy10 KU Band (123W...the same satellite as those networks). Since Alaska is so far west and north, they use G10 to get the signal up to Alaska where they refeed it back on AMC7. I know the UAA/Wisco and UAA/St Clown were on G10 last year.

bah! ya beat me to it But you're correct...money is the big thing. I mean St Cloud and Mankato show all their home games on cable (like FSSN) so the feed is there. UMD shows most Saturday games so the feed is there. Some teams (CC, Denver, MI Tech) don't have many games televised. Alaska may be the closest to MN for most games shown. They have a channel in Alaska (most of the state is one cable company) that shows both UAA and Fairbanks games and they show almost all the games. If its televised, they'll have it. All the home games are tape delayed and road games are live. Seen many UAA games last year.

rehashed from another post The main reason road games aren't carried (and we've been down this road before). The big one is money. If the home team isn't showing the game, then WDAZ has to send a whole crew to the opponents arena. This is the whole production crew and the truck to beam up the signal. That truck costs mucho gas money. They would have to pay for 2 signals (one from the arena to WDAZ and the other from the Ralph to cable companies. The original feed is raw (no graphics). Even if the opponent is doing the game, they still have to pay for the uplink. Sweeney said this a couple years ago when it was asked (he was reading e-mails between periods) A few TV crews have a "when you come here, you can use our feed and when we come there, we use yours". When UMD is on the road, most of the time they use the same feed as the home team but use UMD announcers. But again they have to pay for the uplink. When UMD does road games from the Ralph, the feed that the Duluth fans see is the same as the FSSN including the score graphic. WDIO (the ABC station in Duluth that shows the games) tries to block the Sioux logo in the corner and it just makes it look like crap. So I watch the FSSN feed

posted above 12044 freq V polarity 4880 symbol rate IA8 satellite (89 degrees west)

all you would need is a free to air receiver (Pansat, Fortec, Coolsat), a minimum 76cm dish (I'd recommend at least a 90cm for Canada) and a KU Band LNB check out places like www.kusat.com or www.gosatellite.ca (both Canadian companies so you probably would save on shipping/customs)

Digital cable does have the NHL pack (most cable companies carrry it) but other than the Goofer games, there wont be much college hockey. Cable has "Fox College Sports" but they don't carry much live events (them dang restrictions) Get DirecTV or Dish. You'll get ESPNU, CSTV, and add the multisports pack for the different FSN areas.

They did 2 last year (plus playoffs) and one the year before (UMD) and playoffs so there may be more.

read the posts above K means KU band (which is what we use) 17 means the transponder in the sky its just a bunch of techno stuff. As Baron Von raschke would say "This is all you need to know" 12044 freq V polarity 4880 symbol rate same satellite (whew)