Recent content by drhydro

I got into FTA DVB pretty much as soon as I found out about it LOL.

Well I have had my Fortec for quite some time now, still loving it!!!

I have a mercury II that I love, awesome box with some really nice features ;-)

Love my pstar dishes, they work awesome for FTA ;-)

Have you checked to see if your diseq switch has gone wonky?

Glad to hear it worked out for you Fred!

I make SURE that all my roof expeditions are done while someone is home :-D Sure would hate to be laying there all day till someone came home...

Fred, it does great in snow until the weight of the snow pulls the elevation off ;-) We had about 2 inches of extremely wet heavy stuff on the lower edge of my BUD that took out c band monday, nothing a couple of minutes with a snow rake didnt take care of. Before I cleaned the snow off I pulled...

I used smooth sided barrels for exactly that reason, thanks for pointing that out!

Hey Fred, so sorry to be late in answering this :-D I would grab that perf BUD in an instant, it looks to be made of the same material my 10' channel master is made of which is great for KU. NICE find! you might find that "ding" comes out just by pushing on with your hand, if it is made from...

I have a 10' perfed (pencil lead size holes) channel master BUD with a corotor that has no problem outperforming my 1.2 channel master on KU. I think the perfed dishes offer a lot more reflective surface than the mesh dishs do, hence the better signal strength.

Chefwan, sorry to hear bout that. To see just how much wind load can be generated by a large dish, take a look at this link: http://www.geo-orbit.org/sizepgs/grndpole.html#anchor27689 I have my pole set up on a pole mount that is made of two 55 gallon drums welded together, buried in the...

Welcome to Satelliteguys.us :D You show stellar intellect and obvious good breeding in your very first post! Must be good genetics..... BTW folks, I would like to introduce Gameguy, he is my older brother who is now fast on the way to FTA addiction ;)

caddata, excellant explanation, thanks :D

My WAF is VERY high, she loves all the quality channels we get. Of course it helps we get A team :D, one of her favorite shows when she was a child.