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I have acquired a few extra receivers from people who no longer subscribe. One of them is a 6131 which I wanted to activate but I was told by the CSR that I could not use it because the smart card was out of date. This model has the internal smart card but still has a card slot on the front of...

I have obtained (through legitimate means) an approximately 3.5' Andrew microwave antenna which used to reside on a tower to provide point to point communications for a remote community. It still has the feedhorn in tact although it used a waveguide to feed the signal from the equipment in the...

Been out of the FTA hobby for a few years now but I'm thinking of diving back in before the snow hits and getting something set up again. I have a few Ku band dishes, and know where there are a couple of other free ones. I also have one, maybe two 10' C band dishes and the space to set them up...

I would like to find WGBH 44 which is a secondary Boston PBS station for my Mom. She gets the regular WGBH feed on her Bell satellite system but 44 is not available. I'm wondering if it is available on satellite, I did check The List but didn't find that channel directly. There are a lot of PBS...

First day of solar outage for Hispasat 30°W in my area..........this will allow me to see just where the heck it is from my location. Some of you may remember over the summer I was trying to get it by removing trees with no luck. Well tomorrow I should be able to see if I was even anywhere...

I just saw the picture you posted on another thread regarding the Ku dish you attached to a C-Band and it looks very interesting to me. Certainly would be easier than having separate positioners etc. for both and being as how I already have a 10' dish that tracks the arc perfectly, it wouldn't...

Been re-scanning a lot of C-Band satellites recently and I have come to the conclusion that it's time to bite the bullet and get a receiver capable of S2 and high def. For the price the Openbox seems to be the best deal going. Any reason to look at any other receivers?

So I have been re-bitten by the satellite bug recently and I have dusted off my 1m dish in search of something I have never received before. After all, for me that is what this hobby is all about. So from my location 30°W is attainable.........as far as I know. Biggest problem is all the trees...

Been trying to get some channels on G17 (91°W) C band for awhile and I find the signal to be very weak. Might be my dish but I am able to get 103°W with no problems and I believe I am tracking the arc properly although it has been quite a while since I have moved it off 103°. I remember one of...

So my Mom has Bell TV at her house (1 receiver) and also at her cabin (2 receivers). Bell called her today and said she has to make a decision as to which account she would like to keep active. The other one would have to be shut down. Then when she goes to the cabin she would have to call and...

After taking the summer off from any FTA activity I turned my attention to my dish farm this afternoon. I took the Channel Master 75e off the garage and put a 30" oval in it's place as it was not being used to it's full potential on the garage. Went over to the dish farm and tried to tune...

A friend asked me if I could look at the satellite dish from his father's RV. It is made by King Controls and I believe the model is King Dome 9200. He had already taken it somewhat apart to replace the LNB but prior to that apparently it would not move at all. My question are as follows. Does...

...NOT.........the reed switch is out on my C-Band dish so I'm stuck there. I don't have any of my Ku dishes working properly right now. Bottom line is I have all day to play and I can't. I might sneak out and replace the reed switch and re-program all my c-band sats. That'll keep me busy for...

I got thinking about this the other day when I realized I hadn't been spending much time on the forums just recently. Seems that for me it goes in spurts. There are just certain times of year when I'm more interested in FTA than others. Obviously weather and different seasons play a part but...

My wife and I spent a week in the Dominican and I saw quite a variety of OTA antennas but unfortunately we were in a moving vehicle and I was not able to get a good shot of any of 'em. The most interesting one was made of the metal cage from an old fan up on a long pole...........I don't know...

Ok, maybe it's not what you think but for installing/removing BUDs I think this thing will shine!! Also good for burying cable. Apparently it is also useful for other things.........we'll see. :D Something else to tinker with.

I just swung my dish over to G1 this morning to load up the guide (after being on F3 and everything being fine) and I can not pick it up. Before I start troubleshooting on my end, is the guide up currently? Is Classic Arts Showcase still on tp5? Can't imagine it changing now!! :)

Here is a pic of the way I have things hooked up. Can anyone tell me if they see any reason why it might not work properly? This is not a trick question, I'm really not sure. The Ku LNBs are all standard and the C-Band is a single output LNBF.

...on HD FTA receivers now that Dish and Bell have shut down the hackers? I am noticing that people are still asking a premium price for their equipment in Kijiji and Craigslist ads and that on Ebay people are still bidding them up pretty high. I even saw one guys ad on Craigslist that...

As the title says, how much time do you devote to hunting for feeds or ITC channels that are not normally ITC? This is per day.........if you do not hunt for feeds on a regular basis but do it occasionally I'd like that info discussed in the thread also. Edit: I guess I should add that I am in...

Over the weekend I spent some time between rain showers re-tweaking my 10' Orbitron. When I set it up back in January I did a temporary install and thought everything was pretty close as I had from 91°W (95°W being my true south) all the way to 135°W with good signal. I didn't need anything past...

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While watching DIY Network on F3 two nights ago (as well as about a week and a half ago) I was getting some digital tiling and occasionally the picture (sometimes sound) would drop out completely for a second or two. I switched to a few other channels on that satellite (HGTV and Food) and they...

Parts Express is clearing out some of their Dayton RG-6 cable in different lengths. It is the dual RG6 which makes for easier cable runs to the dish farm. It is not quad shield but for most of us I'm sure it will work fine. Here's the link Parts Express: Featured Categories I wasn't sure...

Driving home from Winnipeg today I spotted what I'm 98% sure is a Birdview dish along HWY.11 between Baudette and Warroad MN. It is approx 1.5 hours for me and on the wrong side of the border to make for easy pickup:( . It was sitting behind a couple of old abandoned looking buildings. I did...