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Sounds like your installer didn't get you pointed accurately. Can you get to your dish easily to peak it yourself?

Are you motorized, if so, do you get good signal when pointed at other satellites. Sounds like you need to do some fine tuning at the dish and get pointed a bit better.

What's the weather out there. Did you have a good feed for football yesterday?

Is it pixelating, or what's the proble? Signal should be strong, unless there is rain or dark clouds in your area.

You can create a favorites group on the traxis, if you want. I don't find it real useful.

Wives and trees, always in the way when it comes to satellite THose old actuators were a problem with the big dish, the gears wore out quickly due to the large dish size in the wind. Would guess new motors might work better, but would have to ask one of the satellite guys if that is improved. THe sg2100 with the small dish has a history of lasting years, so no worry there. The primestar with a C band lnb may get you some of those channels, although bigger is no doubt better. Have you tried a dual lnb, http://www.dmsiusa.com/products.html#c-ku, with a switch or dual lines for both C and KU band with your primestar? It's advertised to work with a 90cm (although I'm not sure that works very well).

That is true, with a BUD there is much more to get. I'm sure you're aware there are tons of big dishes all over the ND country side, free for the taking (those systems cost people over $10,000 when originally installed), but have since been replaced by cable, directtv, or dishnetwork. Not an option for me, I don't own the property south of my house. Dishnetwork remains the popular choice in NWND, since they offer the locals. Will see later today what they will offer for free when I call to complain about no FCS

While my experience with FTA receivers is limited to 2, I find the traxis very reliable, great for scanning, and right on with USALS for motoring around. The instruction book, however, as with all foreign made receivers, loses much in its translation to English. Most learning is by trial and error, rather than reading the manual. I rather like the HD and sports packages delivered by dishnetwork, although apparently the big difference is, they don't offer Sunday ticket (do they?, not something I want so I haven't looked for it). They do provide local networks, including the HD stations, for western ND, something directtv still does not.

There are still upper level tickets available (in 4's or 2's) on ticketmaster and at theralph ticket office. Singles available in lower bowl.

Unfortunately I don't; you may get a dish/directtv installer to point for you if you stop at a satellite/tv store. It's really not that hard to do, the pain is when sats are changed, especially mid year. With a motor, no problem, without one, a PITA. Here's a list of available FTA channels: http://www.dmsiusa.com/channels.html Note the FSSN will not show on these lists. Several FOX and ABC network channels have recently disappeared after years of FTA service. There are a couple stations that have been in the clear for some time now (History and Biography channels). The reseller list, http://www.dmsiusa.com/links.html, shows Leroy's Electronics in North Dakota, with an email link. Not sure where that is located, but it's a good place to start. Or get one of the Sioux fans with FTA in the TC to offer Pete a ride to a hockey series in GF, and bring along a system to install Do you have a good view of the southern sky from your house? Are there trees in close proximity to the south side of your house. Since you have a dishnetwork dish installed over there somewhere, I assume you can see the southern sky (dish in that area points at 110W, 119W, and 129W-for HD). You can use the same cable, or the same route into your house for a second cable for an FTA system. You're somewhere in the vicinity of 97W longitude, so your south satellite to point at with a motorized system is the satellite at 97W, which is, a sat with strong signals, The dishnetwork dishes are pointed to the southwest, your FSSN point would be slightly to the southeast. Here's a great site to find your location with google maps and look at the pointing directions to different satellites from your house: http://www.dishpointer.com/ Sounds like I need to call dish and complain, to save a few bucks and get some freebees. Thanks for the info. Did you push the idea with them that you were going to change to directtv to get those offers? Do you have a fixed system, bin? Really isn't much of a problem getting around with a motor once set up, Picture quality beats the dish and directtv standard digital. I use the FTA system little except for FSSN, but it is worth it for that. The motor makes it easy to head for a different satellite (there have been in season satellite changes the last two seasons), it would be a pain to have to repoint during a ND winter with a fixed system. Also, although I can get cable with the FSSN, they've constantly dropped the ball in delivering FSSN on numerous occasions (including the recent NW Louisiana football game), which is why I left cable and bought FTA a couple years ago.

Yes, but not great instructions. You'll want to ask questions on the visionplus forum if you're installing yourself. Not that hard, but new installers usually have questions until they figure out the stb and pointed the dish. If you're in the TC, you can have Pete do the install.

You can find CCHA, primarily Miami games, on Ohio News Network. I've also picked up occasional ECHA games. The FSSN is the most prominent sports network on KU band, but there are several New stations, as well as news feeds. You will need a motor to get arouind to different satellites, no much on 91W except the FSSN. If you have a large screen TV, you'll definitely like the quality of the uncompressed feed that is delivered on satellite, a whole lot better than SD on directtv, or cable.

Go to the visonplus forum at the bottom of my posts and register, ask Pete for access to the "wild feed/finds" forum, FSSN is discussed there. Quite a few Sioux fans asking questions there after/or during installation

Same in NW North Dakota, directtv has said they'd have them for years, but still do not. Dish not only has them, but gives us the HD version also.

Didn't realize it had arrived. Will have to head for Center Ice tonight

What dhager says, however, still applies to both directtv and dishnetwork, except, directtv has one FSC channel, while dish does not.

Neither the football game Saturday nor the hockey game Sunday show up in the dishnetwork program guide on any FSN's or ALT's. Possibly some games will show up during the season on a dishnetwork FSN chennel. Guress for those with Dishnetwork and no FTA system, it's time to call dishnetowrk and demand the FCS.

All the ALT's and most of the FSN's on dishnetwork show the New Mexico vs Texas Tech game in the Sat. afternoon slot where the Sioux/SD would be. The SiouxXtra show is on western ND locals, from Bismarck, at 11:30PM on Sunday nights. Nothing shows in the schedule for the ALT's for Sunday, sometimes things show up closer to game times, but so far doesn't look good for dishnetwork.

Probably goes cheap when they face UND, so he doesn't tear up the expensive suits during his dasher dances.

Yep, I finally figured out their rather confusing web site.

What comcast package do you have? My kid just moved to the TC and signed up for the starter digital, which shows the FCS stations are included without adding anything.

There are 3 FCS stations on most digital cable packages, Atlantic, Central, and Pacific; not sure what it is directtv has, maybe they pick up portions of all three superregionals?

You may need to add the sports pak to make sure you get every FSSN broadcast. I do like the quality of the FTA feed better than what is delivered by cable as compared to dishnetwork/directtv, the picture is much better quality, so installing FTA was not a total waste.

I'd like a jersey with a duck on it, not a caricature, but a real duck, maybe the mallard, canvasback, or pintail (the ND Sprigs would be just right) Why it wouldn't work; the nonres sotas and badgers might actually start shooting any of the three to stick in their freezers to throw on the ice, rather than the hodgepodge of brown ducks they now bellycrawl up on to ground sluice (gadwalls, wigeons, shovelers, and coots).

The Gopher games on BTN the last two years have been done in HD; I believe the dish people need to have the sport pak add-ons to get it.