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Originally Posted by jim5506
Wrong again, the spot beams are on the order of 3-500 mile ellipses and the signal does not sharply end at the edge, it gradually falls away. If the were allowed to by law they could probably provide you with those locals.
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Looks like you are correct. I mentioned earlier that the PBS WEB site said I am eligible for PBS NATIONAL feed, because locals are not available in my area.
http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/aboutpbs_prog_dish2.html.
I informed DISH, and they turned on the Alabama PTV feed--NOT the NATIONAL PBS feed. Lo and Behold, when they did that, all of a sudden the guides started displaying for the Montgomery channels, but not for the Columbus channels. I think this pretty well indicates that what they did was turn on locals for the Montgomery area, but enabled only the PBS channel. And that is what turned on the guide. So it looks like everyone who said this was not a technical problem was correct.
Thanks, everyone. I'm a relatively happy camper now.
Is this worth posting to new thread? I wonder if other people who can't get the guide for OTA would be interested in knowing that they might be able to get the guide just by exercising their right to get PBS locals even if other locals are not available to them.