Recent content by crims

I have a 75 cm Shaw/Starchoice dish in Utah and it works fine. I have to clean the snow off it occasionally but other than that, no problems with signal strength.

Bummer, it was doing so well up until Monday night. Thanks for your reply.

My StarChoice 530 receiver went belly up a couple of days ago. It had been working fine until it started to freeze up when ever I tried to record a show. Then it started to shut off/reset itself about every 5 minutes when all I was doing was viewing a show. I tried rebooting it by holding the...

I don't think tuner 2 is activated until you finish getting connected to the programming and then you have to briefly record something before you will see numbers for the tuner. At least that was what I was told or remember when I activated mine over the phone with a broker.

I bought one on eBay a while back.

Still no luck. As I move the dish slightly east to west step by step, the signal power for Tuner 1 (line C of the System Setup - Option 6-4-7 for a 530) has increased from around 40 to 66. Line D remains 0 as does the Tune Satellite Signal screen at option 6-4-3-1. Line F has remained steady at...

I thought I was suppost to aim at F1 at 107.3 to set it up. I have already accounted for the magnetic declination of -13.1 degrees here in Salt Lake.

I've got a Starchoice 530 system with a 75 cm elliptical dish mounted on my roof with no obstructions. As the dish did not come with specific installation instructions, I'm wondering if I missed something setting it up. As far as I can tell I'm pointed in the correct direction at about 162.8 deg...