All current Lifeline basic subscribers are now receiving GSN with their package. If you haven’t tuned it in yet you should do so now. Thank you for being a Rainier Satellite subscriber.
Here are the specs for your D9865 receiver to tune in GSN.
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Rainier Satellite Delivers Again!
GAME SHOW NETWORK IS BACK ON C BAND!
Attention Rainier Satellite Lifeline Basic Subscribers! Your channel lineup is expanding! Game Show Network has been added to the Lifeline Basic Package. It will be launching for all current Lifeline Basic subscribers with the next authorization cycle. What this means to you is all current Lifeline Basic Subscribers will be receiving GSN on the 131 west satellite as your unique decoder number becomes authorized at no extra charge. We will announce here at our news page when all subscribers become active.
You can get the D9865 receiver specs for GSN by downloading the Quick Tips Startup Guide.
If your Lifeline Basic subscription is expiring soon and you have not renewed before your anniversary date you will not be able to receive GSN or other services in your packages. There is a reconnect fee if your Lifeline Basic subscription expires. To avoid this fee or channel loss do not let your subscription lapse. You can renew or extend your subscription here
Lifeline basic is required for all new upcoming ADD-ON channels or packages launching on Rainier in 2017. Please remain current to enjoy all the upcoming enjoyment on C band ONLY FROM RAINIER.
Tired of High Monthly TV Costs and Hidden Fees!
Do you currently subscribe to one of those small dish services or cable? Is your monthly bill continuing to increase?
Examples of high priced bills:
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Weak signal? Could be your dish condition.
One thing taken for granted is that your dish is fine. This could be true but many times is far from the truth. You need to ask yourself a few questions. How old is my dish? How many hailstorms and bad storms has it gone through? Has the dish been hit or damaged in anyway?
The next step is too look at the dishes surface itself. Are you missing panels? Are there dents in the mesh? Are there holes or tears in the mesh? Are panels popped from parabolic shape or distorted? All of the above will achieve the same results Weak or no signal.
Missing, dented, or hail damage panels. Major signal loss.
Deformation to mesh causing incorrect focus of signal.
Why is this so important?
Your dish is a collector of weak signals coming from some 22,000 miles above the earth. The accuracy (shape) of the parabolic curve plays a very important role in focusing these signals into your feedhorn and LNB to collect and amplify these signals for later processing by your receiver. When panels are imperfect the signal misses the feedhorn and now your 10 foot is working as a 6 foot.
The next step is to see if there is anything you can do to repair the panels. Sometimes some auto body hammers and tools can flatten the surface enough where you can refocus the signal back into the feedhorn where it belongs. Other times no matter how much you try it’s a lost cause.
What do you do then? Its time to go dish shopping. With many choices that use to be available back in the day not there anymore your choice is limited. One thing to be weary of when dish shopping is throwing away good money just to save a buck. There are some low cost Chinese built mesh dishes on the market that are nothing but junk. Their low cost can make them seem attractive, but once received and assembled the horrors just begin. There are damage panels, parts don’t go together right, once assembled the parabolic curve is egg shaped. The mounts are weak, and don’t survive even moderate wind load well. Once assembled signal is weak or non existent no matter how well you try to tune it due to surface and manufacturing anomalies. Purchasing this could put you in a worse condition then you were in originally with your old dish.
Low quality packing of Chinese mesh dish panels cause damage in shipping. You end up with distorted panels that do not conform to proper parabolic curve.
Panels mesh torn and deformed on low cost China import dish. This will cause signals to reflect everywhere but where they should.
Chinese manufactured dish poorly designed thin mount cannot survive high winds. Notice the paper thin metal that can twist under wind load stress.
Mount damage incurred from 35 mph winds with low cost Chinese made mesh dish. A good dish and mount should survive 95 mph wind gusts without damage.
Being forewarned of you get what you pay for. Where should my money be spent? Rainier has the solution. We carry our base 9 foot 4 piece solid dish designed and built by D&H antenna. The 9 footer is built in the USA and shipped professionally in wooden crates to prevent damage in shipping. It’s assembly is simple as all panels are marked where they should go. This maintains excellent parabolic curve.
Rainier Satellite’s Dish panels as delivered. Excellent condition.
Rainier Satellite’s solid built dish mount. Notice the thick heavy duty steel and multiple attachment points. High winds? No worries.
Simple matched assembly of panels for perfect parabolic shape.
Included at no extra cost is the Harvard Scientific TUNED ortho feedhorn.
Assembled Rainier Satellite C band dish antenna.
You can read the complete installation and review of our 9 foot American made dish here
You can read more about our dishes and get them here
Weak Signal? Could be your feedhorn.
Receiving weak signal with low quality numbers? Do you own a old servo type feedhorn or LNBF? If so its time to move up to the finest feed Rainier has tested. The Dual C-Band Tuned Ortho Feed from Harvard Scientific. This feedhorn made in the USA, is designed to work with c band prime focus dishes with an F/D ratio from .25 – .42. If your dish is shallow or deep this feed will obtain maximum illumination of your reflector for the maximum signal. But that’s not all. The Harvard Scientific is fine tuned from 3.7- 4.2 Ghz, and rejects all other out of band signals and TI that cause interference to the digital signals. While talking about interference the specially tuned step design of the custom scaler ring rejects interfering signals and noise that Chaparral and other knockoff feeds cannot stop.
2 LNB’s are required. We recommend the NJR’s or Norsats found at our webstore. Upgrade to the best today and say goodbye to that weak or spotty signal condition.
Rainier Now Stocks the Worlds Best DiSEqC Switch
- Professional Version
- PURE HD Approved
- High Frequency / High Port Isolation
- Use with AP-600 Mover System
Emp Centauri makes the Best DiSEqC switches in the world. Rainier Satellite is now carrying the 1X2 Professional version. These are fine tuned and great to use with our Harvard Scientific Ortho Feedhorn and dual LNB system. Low BER and High Signal to Noise Ratio. Weatherproof cover included. Get the Best Today.
Connect up to 2 C LNB’s or LNBF’s.
Recommended for use with our D9865H and D9865B receivers and other brand FTA receivers.
New Tuned Feed / Dual LNB Package… This Combo Beats Them All!
Fine Tuned Feedhorn / Dual LNB Package.
Upgrade your LNB & Feed to the Best Combo Today!
NJR LNB’s offer Improved Performance over Norsats and others.
The New Japan Radio NJRC NJS8487H PLL LNB’s are among the best LNB’s made today. They offer a frequency range of 3.65 to 4.2 GHz, this surpresses TI and other out band sources that can cause issues. Only clean signal gets to your receiver. F-Type Connector, Low Noise Temperature of 15 K, Local Stability: +/- 10 ppm ( 50 kHz typ. )
Harvard Scientific Tuned Feed for High Gain.
Improved Gain over Chaparral.
The Dual C-Band Tuned Feed from Harvard Scientific enables horizontal and vertical c-band signal simultaneously. Improves performance and can be used for multiple C-band receiver installations. No servo motor to freeze up. Great for colder climates
Designed in the United States. Precision cast-aluminum body, scalar and waveguide. Durable polyurethane powder coating. Mounts to button-hook, tripod and quad leg dish supports. Cast-in f/D gauge Single set-screw adjustable scalar ring. Through and threaded mounting holes
How many thousands of dollars have you spent looking for that FTA receiver that works right?
This is a question asked time and time again. You go out looking for the Holy Grail of FTA receivers. You pick up the newest and greatest model with it promising to give you bug free operation and low and behold once set up the problems start to manifest. You contact the dealer and they tell you we are aware of this and a software upgrade is coming out to fix this. You wait patiently, if the upgrade manifests your soon disappointed since it ends up causing you other problems, some you didn’t have before.
You call the dealer back, he strings you along, then drops the bomb… WERE SORRY BUT WE CAN’T SOLVE THIS PROBLEM AND WE ARE DISCONTINUING SUPPORT FOR THAT RECEIVER MODEL. Totally flabbergasted you start looking for a replacement. Then you notice the dealer you bought the discontinued supported model from is now offering a new model that promises you the Holy Grail once again. He promises this is it, and you need it. It’s a vicious circle. Truth is it’s not out there with these low priced off shore products that these FTA dealers sell. Only commercial grade U.S. supported models costing thousands of dollars intended for the formats they are designed for are bug free and work well all the time.
Enter Rainier Satellites D9865 satellite receiver. What’s different about it? Well the 9865 is a commercial grade satellite receiver intended to decode our PowerVu Subscription TV channels. But it has a plus; it’s also a commercial grade FTA receiver. It doesn’t suffer from the bugs that these low cost FTA receivers suffer from. It’s right out of the box and built with longevity in mind.
So you have to ask yourself, am I going to continue to play musical chairs with these cheap FTA receivers every time I turn around? or am I going to shell out the extra dollars needed and do it right once and for all to get a quality commercial product. Sit down and add up the thousands of $$$$ you have spent over the years on these throw away FTA boxes and find out your still at square one.
Get Rainier Satellites highly acclaimed D9865 Receiver and besides having enjoyable bug free FTA viewing you can also subscribe to the best HD available only from the C band masters, Only Rainier’s 9865 receiver can do both.
Tired of FTA Boxes that don’t work right? Throwing money away time after time?
Are you one of the FTA box users that seem to get a receiver that never works right on all or some channels no matter what you do?
Does your box exhibit these symptoms? Video stuttering , lockup , or freeze? Audio missing, or out of sync (lipsync)? Channel refuse to scan in? Box runs hot or reboots? Box dies prematurely and dealer offers little or no help? Tried updating firmware and it don’t update or bricks the box.
Does your dealer promise that these problems will be rectified in the next firmware release? Does the next firmware release cause same or new problems? Does your dealer announce there will be no more updates and your now stuck with that problematic box?
Does your dealer come out with a new model and promise the new model will fix all previous problems with his last model and do so much more, but never does?
Have you lived through all this time and time again? Are you tired of it?
If so then Rainier can provide the solution. Our Cisco D9865 model receiver does not have any of these problem that all other FTA boxes exhibit.
Let me tell you, I like everyone else have been through the problematic FTA merry go round for years just like you reading this now and was disgusted with it all. Once I got the Cisco D9865 these problems stopped. It just worked and worked well! I have been using the Cisco for well over 2 years now and very satisfied. The Cisco also offers the added benefit of Subscription C band Master TV that no FTA box can offer. More on the Cisco later.
So why does this happen with typical FTA boxes A-Z?
All the FTA boxes the FTA dealers sell are originally intended for use in a foreign country. They are not designed for North America’s TV signals and standards no matter what they may tell you. Your typical FTA dealer/seller looks for a product that will meet his needs and clients price range. One big restriction the FTA dealer faces is cost. He knows his clients will not spend the money to do it right. So he must settle. (This is where the problem begins) FTA dealers are small garage based businesses that dont have the money to invest in a ground up product built specifically for the North American Market to his specifications. So the FTA dealer/seller decides on this or that foreign pre made box depending on what will seem to work for him. He then brings it to market and begins sales. After a while his clients complain that this isn’t working right or that isn’t right. So he contacts the manufacturer or has someone write patches to the firmware to try to solve the issues. In the meantime it usually screws up the previous code and a new problem arises. So its back to trying to fix that problem and many times still trying to fix the original problem. Once again he releases an update and the scenario keeps repeating itself. After the dealer/seller exhausts all his resources and the manufacturer / coder says it cannot be fixed no matter what, he drops support for the box. And you the consumer is left out in the cold.
After support is dropped the dealer /seller starts this game over again looking for another FTA box to fill the sales void. He still has the financial restraints to work with so the scenario repeats itself once again and the consumer loses again. Round and round the cycle goes.
Now back to the Cisco D9865. Why is it different? One of the things many overlook is that the Cisco D9865 is designed for the North American TV Market. It uses the same engine that is used in the commercial receivers/decoders used in your typical Cable and Satellite headend to deliver those services. It’s firmware has already been designed to work right and must no matter what it receives. Any future updates are done automatically over the satellite, so you don’t risk the chance of bricking the receiver with USB or internet update. Cost factor (the failure of typical FTA boxes) was not an issue when it was done so it is done right. But there is a tradeoff – it costs more than your typical FTA receiver upfront. Quality does not come free as many may keep believing. You need to ask yourself this question? Do I want to keep playing this FTA low price game buying your typical $100-$400 FTA receiver over and over just to replace it in 6 months to a year? OR Do I want to spend a little more once and be done with this merry go round once and for all? If you add up what you spent on many FTA bug-ridden receivers over a few years you can very easily own the Cisco D9865 and have change left over. Its your money how do you choose to spend it?
Short on cash? You can pay it off over time with our financing through Paypal Credit.
I hope this clears up what really happens behind the scenes and why that typical FTA box keeps giving you fits.
If your ready to upgrade and finally be happy, get the Cisco D9865 and sit back and enjoy the TV you want to watch for a change without frustration.
More on the Cisco D9865 can be found HERE
In Search of the Best Stand Alone Satellite Dish Mover.
Rainier Satellite is proud to announce we are now a dealer for and selling the Best Quality solid well built, bug free mover made today, the Pansat AP 600.
We have tested them all, from the low cost V box 7, V box II, and all the off names of the V box family. To the high cost Titanium ASC-1, They all fell short of the quality and robustness we were looking for.
The V Box family had issues, it failed in cold climates, under continuous use, or moving 8 foot larger, or heavier dishes. We could not settle or justify selling a product to our customers with these multiple issues.
We also tested the Titanium ASC-1 but were quickly disappointed by its problems. Most noted its runaway motor control, (it quickly runs your dish to the end of its travel by itself when an incorrect key is pushed, or senses something incorrectly) This is dangerous, and can ruin dishes (dish flip) and actuators (bent arms). Other bugs and problems cropped up too, too many to mention here. Once again, we were just not satisfied with it nor could endorse, or sell a product like this to our customers.
We needed something that was guaranteed to work well under all conditions and not buggy for our customers. We took the same into consideration when finding a receiver for our services. It must work and work well, this is our goal. Rainier Satellite prides itself on selling only quality fully tested products.
So what was Left?
We needed a product that would work as well as the 4DTV or other quality built C band satellite receivers tracker did, bug free. Well the AP 600 actually does just that. It performs flawless, and is bug free. We are very happy with its solid robust performance.
If you look under the AP 600’s hood its build on the old school electronic design just like the old satellite receivers which worked so well.
(AP-600 below)
Its a breath of fresh air to see something built with the old school design quality (AP-600) and integrity that served C band so well for many years.
Everything today seems to be based on low cost cheap robotic sub-mini design. (ASC-1 example below)
Or uses cheap underrated parts like the V Box family. Inside the V-Box models you can see the cheaply made poor design with its under rated transformer.
Which unit would you choose?
More about The AP 600.
The AP600 supplies 36 volts to your actuator for quick flawless movement. It features a four digit alpha-numeric LED positional display so you know exactly where your dish is pointing. Finding your favorite satellite locations is quick and easy. The AP600 can store up to 99 satellite positions in its non-volatile memory. Power outages can’t wipe out your settings. It includes a fine quality IR remote.
Features:
- Powerful 36 Volt DC high amperage design.
- 10 Amp 110 VDC rated dual motor relays.
- Overload Protection.
- Fuse Protection.
- Accurate position counting.
- Easy to read four digit alpha-numeric LED display.
- 99 Satellite positions.
- Works with any Receiver via Remote Control.
- Compatible with any Actuator using a reed or hall sensor.
- Actuator re-synchronization feature for easy reset.
- Parental Lock / Unlock feature.
- Programable over-travel limits.
- Non-volatile memory.
- 110-240 volt selectable.
- Full size remote and buttons.
After a long hard search and countless hours of testing at Rainier for the best dish mover controller, we can say its finally been found. We are very happy to be able to sell this fine product in our store, for a fair price to our customers, for use with their Rainier D9865 receivers and or other equipment they may be using. The long hard search is over.
NOW IN STOCK! GET THE All IN ONE SOLUTION!
Additional Views
Front View
Fine quality remote
Rear View 110-220/240 volt selectable