Recent content by TiminMb

It's enough that I don't get any channels that I previously saved, nor do saved or preprogramed TP's result in any channels. I could swap receivers, but I really like the Mercury II for finding channels. Maybe its time to step up to a better LNB. Maybe get one of those ones that does both...

Another thought, can I assume the discrepency is caused by the lnbf and not the receiver (a Mercury II)?

It's an Extreme II that is around 4 or 5 years old.

All my transponders when I blind scan, are 16mhz higher than the published transponders. Should I swap out my LNB? It seems to prevent me from entering correct TP information and finding a channel.

I notice my frequency is always several mhz off the reported frequency when I scan in transponders. Is this a problem? How many mhz out can you be and still get a good signal if you don't blind scan in the transponders? I guess the local oscillator is slightly off frequency in the lnb.

We have four, but my wife confuses things by thinking she can just take one downstairs and use it on the tv down there when she can't find the downstairs remote. They look identical, but they are not interchangeable. So we wind up with two rooms with neither remote working right. And lets not...

There's got to be a pretty funny story to go with those pictures.

Love that Rod Serling commercial for Radio Shack. I'd never seen it before. Twilight zone used to just freek me out when I was a kid, wildy imaginative stories with a real twist.

My earliest memories of Radio Shack were when it was a side line of the Tandy Leather Company. They had a lot of kits and do it your self stuff and kind of reminded me of Heathkit, another cool company back then. I too did a stint working at a Radio Shack store.

Wow! And I thought I had it bad with mosquitoes when I was up on the roof. Snakes, that's nasty.

Sounds interesting. Sure beats shows about Colon Cleansers and amazing shammies.

What is Amazing Facts?

97W might be good for some ethnicity (arab / east indian?) or religious content. I can't find much there that interests me though. Its not particularly "mainstream" America (or Canada!).

I seem to recall last time I added a satellite on a viewsat pro, I did something like a shortcut, and simply renamed an existing satellite and deleted existing TP's. Those things are tricky and the manuals don't cover everything you need to do. Its more like playing a video game, in that you...

If he likes old tv shows, RTV, formerly RTN is on one satellite. I think 93W? You get two different time zones, East and West of RTN. If you go to RTV's website you can print out a weekly program guide. Same shows all week, weekends different lineup. Correction, its 83W, I have 93W on the...