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Might be worth scanning 105W, at least, where the Grizzlies have been uplinked the last two weeks, to see if this game is uplinked. If anyone with a motorized system finds this game prior to start time, please post the coordinates here.

Do you have it up and pointed at anything yet; installation is straight forward, you need to point at your nearest directly south satellite (that's 97W for Fargo), then use your receiver to motor to the other sats (what are your components?). If you haven't started yet, when you mount your mast, make sure the mast is plumb/exactly level in all directions, before attaching the motor/dish. http://www.dishpointer.com/ is a helpful online app to find your pointing direction at your address. An inexpensive squealer (sf95) meter and compass is helpful in finding the correct elevation and your first satellite. Maybe bluesky above will do an install in Fargo. Check out the forum below with questions you may have.

The system you have will work well with a motor; just need to add it when you want.

Game on AMC15, 105 W Saturday. http://wpe1.montanagrizzlies.com/fmi/xsl/m...max=1&-find

Interest on this site is for Sioux hockey, fixed works, but changes in satellites make it much easier for those who don't want to repoint each year to just motor to the correct location. Most of us Sioux fans are probably not interested in a stack of several receivers. Although most of us don't have a life when hockey starts, sitting in the lazy boy 24/7 messing with TV will turn us all into Jaba the Hut lookalikes.

That's my reason (which I picked up from gopher fan posts) for why the gophers played the way they did the last several years under Woog. Make up your own reason, but no matter what the reason they played like they didn't care, week after week.

I would guess your best bet is the dish sport pak, good chance the Denver series will be on RM, and one of the eastern FSN's may well show the icebreaker. As for finding out ahead of time when/where/what will be televised, I'm not sure it's available anywhere now. I find the specific opponent sites to be the best place to look (DU, BU, etc). Or flipping ahead in you dishnetwork guide a day or two before game time. CSTV didn't get around to posting anything on their site last year until (maybe?) the last minute. Since they became the CCHA network last season I quit looking. I see CBS C now has an HD channel on dish; I don't like the chances of them trucking HD equipment to their telecasts, however. I don't think I've seen anything yet in HD on that channel. Maybe they're planning an equipment upgrade. Then again, maybe they won't even carry college hockey.

In spite of attempts at comparison of 4 years of Hak vs 14 of Woog, I can't see Hak ever running a team with a country club atmosphere with players playing for their name on the back, rather than the logo on the front of their jerseys, plus playing entire season's like they were in a meaningless third place game (Woog's last few years).

Edit: now that Pete gave a link to using a slingbox with the traxis, I won't try to post an answer to something I know absolutely nothing about SVideo is better than VGA, if you have both ouputs on your notebook (supposedly, I probably couldn't tell the difference, although I don't have a laptop and am not set up to run video streams to my hdtv). Edit: looks like Pete and I have a post at the same time thing going lately

Thanks, I totally forgot about looking for it. Guess that means, since all their games will be televised, that both home and road games will be uplinked. Hope we get to this with Sioux football on FSSN also sometime in the future, at least for home games. Guess you must have a motor, bincity? 105W is a strong sat, but I hadn't found anything there previously, as it is (was?) primarily directtv scrambled stations, I believe. In fact, I usually just motor right by it; I'll have to reenter it as a usals stop in my traxis menu.

http://www.montanagrizzlies.com/content/media/media_fb.htm Will be interesting to see where they go (they were on 93W for most of last season) when they uplink a game. Their road game was not on satellite last weekend (as far as I know). The coordinates are posted on the above site sometime Thursday before each Saturday game, when they uplink. I'd guess the coordinates should show up Thursday for this Saturday's home game. Like the FSSN, they power up 15 minutes or so before game time.

I'm just listening to the radio feed,but, when the free video feeds that are available did not play for me, I disabled the software firewall (sunbelt) that I use, and that solved the problem. Too much latency on a couple jumps from my end to the video feed for me to receive any video without skipping and pausing, but the "just sits there and does nothing" problem was solved anyway.

With all the beer I could drink, your chances of getting installed and pointed would be slim and none. You really want that done by someone who has done it professionally, I'm not anywhere near that level, nor do I have the equipment to get it done right. I bumbled my way through my own installation, but only had the guts to try it since I'd once installed my own directtv system many years ago. Also, if I end up in GF, the installation would be attempted in a big hurry, trying to get done and get to the REA for the hockey game. I do got by GF occasionally, actually stayed in town last Thursday night, unfortunately too late to make the fb game. The pay as you go dishnetwork installation works great, we have one for our temps at the trailer at our shop. I think we paid about $150 for the equipment and installation, then you buy paid up cards for $40 a pop, then choose whatever programming you want. When the $40 is used up, you buy another card, so you can start and stop as you wish. I'm guessing some installers in GF would do it for a better price than that.

What ru doing up so early in the morning Back to the original question/answer, whatever you buy, you'll definitely want a receiver that blind scans (aka autoscan, powerscan), especially with a motorized system. The traxis, btw, does blind scans very well.

Fantastic, can watch on TV out west and avoid trying to watch video stream.

I can't tell you where to get a dvr/pvr, haven't researched it or had an interest yet. Someday I may want to upgrade to a HD receiver, although most of that is apparently available on C band. You can get components on ebay, make sure they are new, although I've found the prices to be very comparable (or more expensive), than the same components from Pete (not sure he sells a receiver with dvr). Blackheart, the new coordinates are not yet listed, they'll have to get that up soon, before the Oct 5 puck drop for sure. I've been unable to get an email response from Jamie's email link on the REA site.

Just for the record, once more, I don't get commissions from Pete, and, although I've ordered some of my components from him, I've ordered them from his web site at the posted price as anyone can. I only recommend it because the components are excellent quality and the support on the visionplus message board and from the distributor, dmsi, is top notch. And I know Pete has done lots of Sioux fan installs in the TC area, and more than caters to Sioux fans who can't stand not getting the FSSN. The fortec 80cm that I got is what it is, maybe it's the only one that's ever been made that poorly, but I don't have any good reason to throw good money after bad, and don't intend to continue sending $55+ to sadoun to see if I get a good one. The hotdish 90's quality is excellent, and I don't need to try another dish. Sioux fans will certainly buy whatever they want, and I hope no matter where they get it that it works for them.

Haven't seen that hotdish, but if it's related to the hotdish90 that I have, it's not built the same, since I have no bend in the lnb arm. I guess that means avoid the 75e, but no worries for the hotdish 90. Perhaps sadoun sells some different "grades" of fortec dish, and I just got one of the cheapest, poor ones. Ice, do you work for anyone in satellite, or get commissions from anyone in particular for selling their products?

Got the system from sadoun, the lnb was bad, the dish has almost no galvanization, and the mast was soft and pliable. Galvanized steel absolutely should not start rusting immediately when a small scratch or ding occurs, but mine did. The elevation bracket was off 5 degrees (guessing, since getting plumb with a soft mast is near impossible), and, rust began immediately after rubbing off some paint getting the elevations adjusted totally by trial and error. I see the dish alone is now $55, when I previously looked after seeing the quality, it was around $25. Motorizing a poor dish and bendable mast is impossible for a newbee like I was, and no doubt near impossible for an experienced professional installer. I've since replaced virtually every component, and now have a system working like it's supposed to. I can only compare the 80cm fortec I got to the winegard and the hotdish90, and the galvanization and quality of the latter two blow the first out of the water. Maybe every component of my first system was a nontypical lemon (expect the fortec classic na stb which worked fine), but, having seen and used better components, I wouldn't take another chance with sadoun. I don't live somewhere that I can check different components for what I like best, and trial and error by online or over the phone ordering gets expensive. I know places to buy dmsi distributed components, I know how good the dmsi backing of the products is, and I've personally seen the quality and used it. I can't see any reason for any Sioux fan looking for a new system to take a chance on something that may or may not be good. I'd hate a Sioux fan to have a similar experience to mine. BTW, I'm not a system salesmen nor do I get commission for talking Sioux fans into buying dmsi equipment, I'm just posting personal experience, that's it.

Those big dish's are in almost every country yard in ND, most not in use. If you can haul it and install it, you can get one for free.

That information is an exact duplicate of what is still on the REA web site from last season, although they changed transponders (on same satellite) for the Duluth road series, then stayed with the new transponder for the remainder of the season. That transponder may no longer have power, a scan of 93W finds almost nothing live remaining. I doubt that the FSSN will be on that satellite, but, for those pointing, it's the only one to point a fixed system at until more information is forthcoming from the REA. I'd certainly consider, for anyone buying, a motorized system, it's little more and you won't have to worry about last minute changes on your roof in an October snow storm I've emailed Jamie before, as well as last week, and I've never had an answer returned, not certain why the REA lists an email link I'd guess they have not yet determined/paid for this season's satellite transponder. With no televised football scheduled until mid-October, they'll just need to have it in place by the Manitoba hockey game in early Oct.

I did forget to mention that a change in lnb improved my reception also; I'd guess I'd received one of the bad batch of uln1's. Absolutely great results with the xtreme II and JSC321s lnb's. And yes, you can make the fortec 80cm work with a fixed system, if you want to go as cheap as possible for a dish, but for little more you can significantly increase the dish quality.

My 80cm fortec had very poor galvanization, very thin and bendable. any crease resulted in almost instant rusting, and hot weather warped the dish causing loss of signal on my motorized system. In addition, the mast was so soft I couldn't properly tighten down the dish without bending the mast, resulting in an out of plumb mast. It worked fine during the cold winter months for FSSN, but, having compared it to the winegard (I think you were using this as your small dish, iceberg?), it does not compare at all for quality. Possible fortec makes some that have better galvanization, but, after the first I'm not willing to try again since I now know where to get good dishes with good galvanization. At any rate, I now have the 90cm hotdish from dmsi international, and that is a very fine dish.

Fetch, If you live where you can reach the TV signals by antenna, most of those are now broadcast in both digital and HD, just takes a regular TV antenna, much like (or the same as) those people have always put up to get local analog stations. To get digital and HD, you also need a receiver capable of receiving the digital signals (or a modern hdtv with a digital tuner), you can buy many of those boxes with the $40 government coupon. If you currently get stations via antennas, you can get the digital stations with those same antennas and a box (or hdtv with tuner instead). I prefer dish and directv to cable, since I live in an area that doesn't offer much cable-wise, and is very expensive if you choose the digital and/or HD packages. Many of the offerings in cities on digital cable are much the same as you can get with dishnetwork or directtv satellite TV. Of course, dish and directtv offer Center Ice, multi sports paks (all Fox Sports net channels) and so on, for additional subscription fees. Check lyngsat links for what is available by FTA satellite. Just note that the low frequency (3000-4000) channels require a big dish, the 30" will just get you the high frequency (ku band, 11000-12000, including FSSN) stations. There are other wild feeds that pop up from time to time in addition to those listed on lyngsat, the FSSN will not be listed there. I've also watched CCHA and ECAC games on FTA last season, as well as other sports feeds that uplink to satellite (Montana Grizzly football, for instance). I was a bit mislead when I first ordered a system, as I thought I could get UAA games when the Sioux played there, but, that has been available on C band only, so it would require a big dish.

Don't know about the icebreaker, but generally the games with a Sioux webcast are those that are also televised on FSSN. I believe you'll also get all home football, basketball (m&w), and women's hockey, with the webcast subscription. Currently I can't even get the freebees to stream, so I can't say how it's working. FSSN schedule