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Interesting, Montana has gone HD, no wonder I can't get it. Do you have the openbox attached to your traxis? No doubt that's the nicest stadium in the Big Sky, and one of the nicest anywhere.

Thanks, didn't find it on 99, so I'll motor on over. Site lists the satellite as Galaxy 16, but it's AMC 16 instead. What's The transponder info, Jake? OC and raining, haven't scanned it in here.

Since there is no ESPN3 in northwestern ND, I"ll watch Montana/Eastern Washington on FTA satellite.

Oct. 1 hockey vs Regina http://www.ndtc.tv/fssn.htm Also Montana football is again on 99W: http://www.montanagrizzlies.com/schedules/?s=170&g=100&m=37

WDAZ does not have an HD studio, so no HD equipment for doing the games. I have streamed SD from laptop to HDTV (via HDMI) for away games (purchased separately by the game), worked well, although making the streaming video that large (on a big screen) obviously reduces the quality, in some venues more than others. I think the fighting Sioux package has streamed well for people more recently ( years ago did not work at all), so I wouldn't be afraid to get it. Also I'd guess the quality of streams from theralph, even though SD, will look better than most. BTW, there is still only one TV station in the state that has an HD studio, that is the KX network (CBS) in MInot.

You were right, lots there on Saturday morning. 4 together was tough to come by, except for the upper level, but I like the first couple rows up there, so that's where we are.

Yep, missed the lower bowl ends; when you leave the ends it's 1200 and up in the lower bowl (plus 390). Someone selling half the tickets (one night a weekend) would be in line to ask as much as 6000+ if on the center ice sides of the lower bowl.

390 is the season ticket price for all seats, but, depending on the section in the lower bowl, FSC donations have to be at least 1200 to as much as 12100, in addition to the season ticket price.

The solution salt mining test wells near Columbus did not pan out. As far as we know the project has been abandoned for now.

We've got rooms that can be cancelled (4 of us), guess we'll have to wait and see.

Isn't sudo one of yours, Goon That and pre-madonna

Has this been done in past years? We go to the Thanksgiving series each year knowing that more tickets are normally available due to the students being gone. Will there be anything for sale on Saturday when the general public can buy tickets.

Need some code to purchase Thanksgiving weekend series tickets vs. CC. Where does one get that code? Guess I can wait until Saturday otherwise.

A bit more power tonight for FTA'ers on FSSN, about 10 points higher than last week's football.

And tonight's volleyball feed has kicked off at 80% for me, 10 points higher than last week's football feed.

Family friend who lived in GF (when I was a kid) followed Sioux hockey closely in the late 60's, he was a good friend of Earl Anderson, a Sioux player at the time. Chose UND for college in the early 70's, and went to all football, basketball, and hockey games then, helped a broadcasting student move stuff into what was then the new winter sports building just before its opening. Watched Sioux hockey for a couple years in the old barn. Sioux were not good then (in hockey), but had a lot of success in both basketball and football. Friends that stretched out their stay at UND to 5-8 or so years were around for the early Gino years, so traveled there often to see the Sioux in the early 80's. One friend was in med school, so I got it on a student ID as Dr. (whoever was not able to go to the games); often I think I was Dr. Fasbender, although I never met him. Have been introduced to the current Sioux football Dr (Mann) and hockey Dr (Greek) through this friend, so when we travel to games now together we often spend some time in the Dr. suite. Back in the early 80s I lived in northern SD, so, when I wasn't traveling to GF, I crossed the border to Oakes and watched the Sioux with another UND alumni who owned the Cabin. Most of his friends were Bison graduates, so we watched Bison football also with them (during Bison's good years with Bentrim, etc). Since they also like to watch Sioux hockey, we got along great, although I avoided any comments concerning the BIson and didn't wear any anti-Bison Tshirts left over from college days. Usually make it over to GF once a year, and, to the post season tourney at the X the last couple years. We've been doing a thanksgiving trip to the ralph each year for the last several and will all meet there again this year for the CC series. Whenever I've come if there are more than just hockey in town we try to take in all of them (football, men's and women's basketball). While I'm hockey first, I follow the other Sioux teams, and avoid the hockey vs other sports arguments on this site. Had at least one friend that took part (very unsuccessfully) in the Bison/Sioux basket ball halftime show that featured Sioux/Bison football players fighting at center court. Always good entertainment, but most of us were just there to watch, and not take part.

Remaining upright is an adventure for many, no matter the surface.

Absolutely, very good chance this was the problem. Try again next Tuesday when volleyball is televised. Note, every satellite you use in the antenna setup needs to have the lnb changed when you go there.

Sounds like you have the easyfind, in which case yes, it should be green. If you have 86% on the patient channel (quality, not intensity), you should be able to scan in FSSN, I only have 80% on patient channel with the 4000

Did you blind scan or enter the info in tpscan? Transponder was changed from what was originally listed on theralph web site.

patient channel is on the right satellite

Powered up at 72% , 90cm, traxis 4000 12015 V 4880 on 87W (AMC 3) Note: Ralph site originally listed the tp as 12095, but it was changed.

Yes, that's usually the case, except for last year's early season trip to Anchorage, which was on the TV schedule when it came out.

In addition to the men's home hockey games, the following are scheduled to be on FSSN (not sure on road men's hockey), via Jake's email to P. Sweeney. Tickets are now available on ticketmaster for the Ice-Breaker (two day package only, one day tickets not yet available), and, also at the REA box office, I assume. No other hockey tickets available yet.

For all of you that get bucks from royalties and/or oil stocks, I apologize in advance; but living in NW North Dakota has become dangerous, and the area is no longer livable. I'll skip the constant crime, bar fights, truckers that don't care and force small vehicles off roads, etc. It's out of control. Instead, I'll focus on contamination, loss of grasslands, and the testing the the State Department of Health has done on ground and surface water, the data from which has since been buried to avoid alarming the public, and could cause problems for the revenue coming into the state, and the good state economy in times when most of the country is hurting. Produced water contamination, the most publicized problem, is real. Soils near and around old evaporation pits and reserve pits are sterilized, do not grow any sort of vegetation, and have ruined the ground and surface waters. The later requirement to inject the saltwater back into the shale has helped for the future, but leaking saltwater lines, saltwater truckers that are paid by the load, and will dump the contaminated water anywhere to avoid wasting time in long lines at disposal wells, continue to date. While hydraulic fracturing is bringing out about the largest outcry, it is primarily because of a chemical concoction that has no EPA approval, that this outcry is occurring. I don't know who knows, other than the oil co's, what this concoction is, but it isn't being advertised, so one would assume it's not something good or neutral. Yet again, however, there are known reserve pit contaminants that are being hidden from the public, even though the state knows very well what they are. The contaminants are elements, present on the surface naturally in only trace amounts, that are present in the shales in elevated and dangerous levels. These elements are part of the cuttings that are brought up in the drilling process and deposited in the reserve pits, the contents of which are passed off as "drilling mud". These dangerous elements include, to name a few, cadmium, barium, beryllium, selenium, and arsenic (if you don't recognize their toxicity, try googling). All have been found in elevated and dangerous concentrations in the shallow ground water aquifers and surface waters in the areas of old oil well drilling activity, which includes thousands of sties from the oil boom of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The NDDOH had (has?) data from testing these waters in the Lignite, ND, vicinity, but has not made them public, and may have, by now, shredded and deleted those results. Testing was supposed to go on for several years, with new test wells being added annually, but when these toxins were found, the testing ended abruptly after one year, and no longer is done. OIl co's will argue that new standards that require pits to be lined and, when drilling is completed, solidified, and wrapped in the plastic barrier and buried near the surface make reserve pits safe, but they are simply not protecting the ground water and surface water, not to mention surface soils and subsoils in those areas. We've seen the liners, being difficult to put down in the wind, stapled to the soil, creating a series of holes throughout the liner in the pit, defeating its purpose, We've also seen the liners blown away from the pit boundaries and the "mud" with its toxins coming into direct contact with surrounding soils. The state has fined many companies this spring for overflowing reserve pits due to the extreme runoff that occurred from snow melt and rainfall. No fine, however large, can stop the watersheds from contamination, which continues to occur. A very limited amount of closed loop drilling rigs are starting to be used, whereby the reserve pit is eliminated and the cuttings are returning directly to the shale, but this drilling is more costly, and until it is required contamination will continue at an alarming rate. Even when closed loop is required, and it will be eventually, how can anyone clean up the mess that has been created in NWND from 50+ years of exploration. I plan to move to eastern ND soon, to get out of this area, and live where I can "enjoy" the booming ND economy and get away from the contamination (my house is now worth 3 to 4 times what I paid for it). Not sure any of us should bury our heads in the sand like this state has, but, if we're making money and don't live near the contamination, I guess that's a good thing for us, right? Just remember, almost everyone lives somewhere down the watershed from the oil boom areas.