Recent content by whiteoakharold

no more FTA on AMC6 I think this info. is correct. AMC6 (an old military sat.) has been bought up by a fairly new Company, SKYfx, a new one way sat. internet provider(only in business for 1 1/2 years). I have one on order that wont be shipped until Monday. Wait until you see the deal these...

I sent my neighbor to buy a Traxis 3500 and dish kit and he bought a traxis DBS4500 and two dish kit With lnbf's instead. Is the 4500 a no blind scan machine like the 4550. I hooked it up to my dish (his isn't up yet) and what ever kind of scan it has only found 20 channels. Can the other...

First WOT Now Pete, should have given him more MONEY or what ever. He will be missed, I hope you win the Lottery Pete It might help pay you back for all the help you've been to Sooo many people. Thank you, WOH

Finding your true south satellite really is easier with out the motor. Set the skew on your LNBF and move it very slowly, when you think your moving slow enough it should probably be slower (1/16 of an inch and give it a couple seconds to focus) the only sat. you should pick up is the one your...

Try #3, I have the slowest web connection in the world. And need more paitents. Thanks Gabshere. this way is different from what I tried the first time.:D

My first installation Here is a picture of my pole sprouting roots (welded on) and a picture of my GeosatPro 1.2M dish and my 12v TV in its cardbord shelter (the box the dish came in. The hole for the pole was 12"X36" and I used 5 80lb sacks of create. I hope this works.

I went to check out KUEN last night and the night before and it was scrambled, video not audio. Did everyone loose SB6 ? totally dark with no signal showing on the meter.The way the rain is coming down I don't think Ill be takeing the little T.V. out side anytime soon. :(

Looks real good, I'm still trying to figure out how to get my pictures on here. I can see the smoke from the stacks over by St.Marys On the Ohio river. I'm dickering with two diffrent guys for two diffrent C-band rigs one a 10' dish and the other looks real small, did they make 5'ers? I havent...

When I started setting my rig up Pete gave me a set of numbers that didn't agree with what the manual said (I'm not sure what that was about) but "Listen to Pete" he's got the magic numbers.I did try what the manual said (In a fit of desperation, the problem wasn't numbers it was me). It's...

gabshere, I've been seeing folks referring to a "Bucket mount", Is it what the name implies? A short piece of pipe in a bucket of Mudd? (concrete?) WOH

Just a word of encouragement from one of the Satellite Guys newest success stories. Relax and read, read,read.Start looking up (search) anything that relates to your project and desires (with the dish I mean, the one with the lnbf on it) I spent at least two months reading the old FTA Threads...

I'm officially on the belt G10, White Springs TV, and IA7 are safely inside my box and all have excellent pictures and sound. I really would like to thank PSB Pete and Voom Voom Al for that all important "First Contact" and all that most valueable Information. And a very big thanks to wescopc...

Really good news and a little dit of bad :D :D :D I went out to tweak on my dish this afternoon and discovered that I had left my lnbf set for a straight line up on AMC5. Sooo I set it to zero and immediately had USALS move my dish to G-10, and much to my suprise when it finished down loading...

iafirebuff did I do my math wrong? or did you mean my true south satellite is at 72? could you give me a tip on how to identify thees sat's? I feel like I'm learning real fast but I seem to have missed something really important.:hungry: (maybe desert?)

I've read that to find your true south that you subtract your magnetic declination from your longitude and that gives youyour true south. so my longitude is 80 -6.14= 73.6 or 74 (to round it off) the satellite that is my closest to true south is AMC5 at 79degrees. When I'm aimed at AMC5 and my...