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If something shouldnt be free and it is, enjoy it while you can and dont complain when they scramble Well I suppose good people can disagree as to whether you should EVER have to pay to receive an unencrypted OTA broadcast signal. :) May explain the ungodly number of old BUDs in the area...

JMO but I would be very careful of buying from a site that offers no phone number at all on it's website. Looks like they just want you to order by PayPal or credit card with no way to follow up if there is a problem, unless you have to actually make the purchase before getting any kind of...

After looking over The List for 101 I see that I had a preset Transponder Frequency of 11822 so I manually changed it to 11821 for 3ABN which I know to be a FTA channel. The strength went from 0 to now 10. I haven't been to the antenna to retry pointing, but am I understanding the TP thing...

In the LNB Menu Standard High LO was 11,250 which I now manually changed to 10,750 Low LO 0 Power on 22 KHz Then in the scan menu TP Frequency 11,708 Polarization H [L] Right now the level is 20 Quality 0 So if I understand right the power from the receiver to the LNB is fine, just no...

I am ready to attempt to get my Ku antenna working. I have been using my receiver to get Echostar 7 from a DBS dish but I've had no luck at all with getting the Ku antenna to work. My goal is to get either AMC 4 101 W or the 99 W bird for the GloryStar channels. The antenna is an old Primestar...

Well the StarChoice antenna option is out for now. I decided to give it a try. After fiddling with the dish for a while with no luck I chanced to notice that the lnb cover was missing and I was never able to get *C back. I'm also suspicous of the audible signals on my cheapo sat finder. Seemed...

Great! Then that probably accounts for a few things. I may as well play around with repointing to other birds this weekend. Clouds & rain for 40+% chance until then, and without a compass I need all the help I can get, as in a strong clear signal to beep the sat meter. :D Thanks for the help...

Today is not one of the better days for signal quality, which such a day is why I had purchased the Primestar antenna years ago but never got around to installing. I can only guess what these numbers mean so bare with me if I don't get it right. 07 000FAFC 00 01 nB. 3/4 299 +2.750 19.51 000...

I have a theory, going by what has been said. Could it be that F1 is properly alined but F2 has slid out of place? Would that account for it? I'm using the same coax and can pick up unscrambled channels with my StarChoice receiver. So if my FTA receiver can only ever see the F2 transponders...

It's still pointed at them. As it searches it says fail.

I was looking at TheList and noticed that 3ABN is listed on AMC4. Does that mean I can use a Direct TV dish & lnb? I tried to get AMC4 with a direct connection but it failed. I know the dish is pointed correctly because I have Direct TV.

What might I be overlooking? It's on a direct connection, so it's not a DISEqC issue.

Somehow I must have missed this before so I just gave it a try. I had no luck. I'm assuming the lnb setting is standard, but I even tried universal, wideband, and DishPro.

As some or all of you know I have been working on this in another thread, but I need some clarification about the StarChoice dish. I have a Dish Network 2 position antenna with integrated quad lnb. Works fine to get Miami locals, Angel One, and NASA via Echostar 7 and Hawaiian music courtesy of...

For simplicity's sake let's just address the 119 bird for the moment before this gets complicated by the Ku setup. (I had done a previous quick install attempt on the Ku antenna setup and ran into the same problem) I'm not sure what you're saying. If you mean did I assign LNB 1 in the settings...

Isn't the Direct TV Int'l the same bird as Echo 7? I also tried my Direct TV antenna pointed at 101 but I guess the reply to bearfanrp explains why I got nothin' there. Anyway long story short I am still learning about scans and about all I could get on Echo 7 was Dish 101 info and test...

The lnbf is that single beer can looking with both V & H outputs. The receiver is an Orasat v5.0, which I was told later probably wasn't the best choice. I tried an 18" dish known pointed correctly at 119 but couldn't get anything. Zip 33709...

That's kinda what I did but still have been unable to get the receiver to report any signals at all. In addition to trying to find a bird with my .75 cm antenna I've even tried connecting to Dish & Direct TV antennas that I know are correctly pointed. Doesn't matter if I can actually see or...

I feel a bit better now. I'm trying to do my 1st FTA install and noticed more than a few possible obstacles at ground level. It's one of the Primestar dishes .75M and being in FL I'm not sure I want it on the roof if I can avoid doing so.

Speaking of installation I've had some experience pointing DBS antennas and have seen that sometimes you can locate the dish right in front of an obstacle because it looks overhead for the signal and doesn't need line of sight, per se. Is that true of Ku signals as well? Or do you need a wide...

I'll just list what I have. I have the *Choice elliptical 2 position lnbf with integrated 4 outputs I actually have 2 Primestar dishes with a single lnbf but only one I know of that has all the parts. Haven't even opened the 2nd box yet. A new Disque switch And my receiver is an Orasat v5.0...

Gee. I'm just trying to get my 1st one up & running. 1st thing I noticed is this thing is a tad bit large to bolt to the side of the house. Good thing it's light! or I'd just be calling the cable company and say the heck with FTA anything. But I suppose I could just have someone install a...

Just wanted to say hi! I started looking for satellite forums mainly to put an old but never used Primestar dish to work to get mostly the GloryStar programming. It's a bit of a struggle but at least I have my years of Dish & Direct TV experience so that I at least kinda know what needs to...