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    Dish Pointer Pro Android App.

    Has anyone tried using the Dish Pointer Pro app. for FTA satellites? If so what are your thoughts? Was thinking about purchasing but would like to get some real life FTA reviews. Thanks
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    Another BUD Saved

    Hello everyone, Today the wife and I went and picked up a 10’ Sami from a kind Gentleman about three miles from our home. The pole the dish was setting on had no concrete in the hole so I don’t think it would track the arc very well. The dish passed the string test so I hope it will make a...
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    Birdview?

    I spotted a solid Birdview a couple of miles from home and was wondering if I would be able to get most C-band signals with the 8 1/2' dish or should I keep looking for a 10' mesh dish. Take care
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    Fortec Dynamic Power Scan?

    My Fortec Dynamic will no longer Power Scan (Blind Scan) I have tried a few sats and it will not pick up any transponders, even on a sat that I was watching a program on. Was watching the NBC Mux on 72w and when I scanned the sat no transponders were found, I could still watch the NBC Mux Any...
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    STO HD

    It is getting close to Baseball time and I would like to be able to watch the Tribe this year. From what I have read in other threads, STO SD has a real strong signal and I was wondering if STO HD also has a good strong signal. I was thinking about trying a smaller dish, maybe a 36" until I...
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    After the storm

    We had a bad storm here last night, lots of lightning. This after noon when I turned on receiver I have no signal or quality. I checked and the motor moves the dish and I bypassed the 2x1 switch. I am getting 18 VDC to the LNB, I switched the coax to the other side of the QPH031 Quad LNBF...
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    Level and Quality

    I finally got a chance to try to point my 36" dish from my Sadoun M-2 package. After an hour of slow movements I have a signal level of 88-89% and a signal quality of 29-30%. I am pointing at 82W (Nimiq4) TP12224V 2000. This is listed as a strong transponder so should I work on getting a...
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    Getting ready

    I have a M-2 package comming from Sadoun, should be here First part of the week. I have a couple of questions to get me started. I am at Longitude -81.8984 so my true south satellite will be 82 deg. In Icebergs Strong transponder thread he has a transponder listed at 82 but it needs a lnb...
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    1st system help

    Hello everyone, I have been lurking here a while and thought I would ask for a little help in picking my first system. I have been looking at a M-1 motorized system from Sadoun, everythig in one package seems to be the way to go for the first set up. I would like to know if it would be...