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Thanks everyone! Yes it was the button on the TVs remote that needed to be adjusted. I even got it working through the HDMI now, much better picture. And, with the TVs remote I can select for either Free to air antenna, and get my of the air channels, 13 of them all free! or select the...

OK guys Thank you very, very, very, much. I got it! There was nothing wrong with the Openbox. It was the TV. You have to set the TV to the right input. But anyway I got it working only because you all helped. I would not have checked and put the TV where I have now, on the composite setting...

I am getting confused. Right now I am hooked up to the digital TV through the HDMI cable. But it is still getting the over the air channels. Do you mean I should switch back to the red white yellow RCA then do the VFORMAT thing? I am going to try both and see what happens.

Yes! that is what I am trying to use. The Red White and yellow RCA connections.? I also dug up an old HDMI cable I still had from when I had from when I had a subscription to Direct TV and tried hooking it up to my digital TV with that. I still get no picture that way either. I'm not sure I...

I bought it new several months ago, but am just now getting around to trying to set it up. I have only tried to hook it up to my old analog TV via CVBS RCA cable. I'm not sure I know how to set my digital TV up to work with HDMI. I don't understand about the component, or composite?

I have an Openbox S 10 that I bought a few months ago that I am trying to set up. I have read the manual (which is written in a way that is very confusing) and I have been looking through the posts on this forum and others for help in trying to make it work. So far I have not been able to get...

Well now that it has stopped raining here in Florida, and the ground isn't all mud anymore. I started working on installing my c band dish again. I already have the pole in the ground and cemented in place. While waiting for the cement to cure I started reading the installation instructions...

How can I get the Map Master program, and what is it I have to buy for $68 dollars and where? Now that I have replaced the battery on my 620, and am close to having the 12 foot dish set up I would like to have everything I need for programing the new map as soon as possible.

I'd rather watch Green Acres than the stuff they produce now, but then I would rather watch a rat fight or paint dry than the stuff thy produce now.

When I was about 10 years old, (that was sixty years ago) one day I stuck a dinner knife into a wall outlet and discovered electricity. Good thing the knife had a plastic handle so I didn't get killed. I started collecting old radios that people threw away in the trash and I'd try to make them...

Jeremiel is just a nickname. My real name is John, and my call is KC4TXC. I was AAT4YA Army MARS, but I haven’t been active in years. I'm General Class licensed since I can't remember when. I'm 70 years old, but I'm probably going to put up a few antennas and get active again since I now...

I received my lithium battery from Digi-Key today and successfully installed it. The new battery is dated 5/12. The old battery is marked 97-6 which I think means June 1997. That makes it 15 years old. It is still reading 3.66 volts. I don't understand why it was necessary to change it, but...

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I went over and got my 12 foot c band dish today. It actually was not as hard as I thought it was going to be to dig it up. After first taking the dish off the post I dug all the way around the cement then attached a chain around the cement and pulled it out of the ground with my SUV. Here...

I just looked it up. DigiCipher 2, what the heck it's just like me. We are not totally obsolete yet :O). It will only take me another couple of minutes to change that battery too, and then it will be there if I ever need it.

You are right! If I insulate under the board with Mylar or some such material it would be would be good insurance. I'm not going to remove the board all the way either. It will be much easier that way. I appreciate all the tips you guys have given me. I can't wait for the battery to get here...

Thanks for the information on the DCII module. I was thinking about replacing that one too while I was at it. Now I won't bother. Just out of curiosity what was it used for originally? I'm new to Satellite TV though I've been in armature radio since ten years old or so. I'm 70 now years...

Yes! That is what I will do to. I think the concern is that if the battery is real weak and you unplug the receiver you will loose the UID. But this receiver has been unplugged and in storage for five years the man who gave it to me told me. Before I had done much research and before I had...

Thanks for the reply! It took me a while to locate the instructions for pulling up the the diagnostics screen. I don't have a manual. I finaly found instructions an looked. There is both an IUD number and a unit number present. The unit number matches the unit number on the back of the...

The size of the holes on this one are about the size of a drinking straw. About the lnb, I'm pretty good at acquiring free stuff and already I have one that I got of a different broken down dish the guy who I got my DSR-920 4dtv that I snagged today and wrote about in another post.

I just got a General Instrument model DSR-920 4DTV receiver. It hasn't been used in years, but looks to be in very good condition. I've been reading the forum threads about this receiver and I understand there is an issue with the lithium battery failing and ruining the receiver. So I opened...

Yes! There will be a lot of work to be done before I can watch my EWTN programs. All that white stuff is dried up sap from that tree it's under The orange stuff near the bottom is dried leaves also from that tree. But even before I do any cleaning I have to get it home. I will have to dig up...

Thanks! I just ordered a DMX741 on ebay. Now I have to go dig it out of the ground. The post feels like you couldn't knock it down with a tank. By the way I am also in amateur radio. My call is KC4TXC.

This is my second post. I'm a beginner. I had bought a 6 foot WSI dish that I intended to put together and use for watching EWTN. Then I started reading some of the threads which discuss how to put it together and set it up. I was confident I would be able to do it with all the information I...

More beginner's questions I bought one too! I'm going to start putting it together soon. Thanks for all the information and pictures that have been posted. I will benefit from all the experience you pioneers have accumulated. But knowing me I will still probably run into a few problems. I...