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    Canal Vasco on Hispasat currently black?

    Right, I was being tongue in cheek, the channel is mostly in the Basque language, occasionally in the regional Spanish. It's amazing how much you can take in from just the video, but the non-verbal audio effects (laughter, cheers, boos, whistles, other noises) can add to the comprehension and...
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    Canal Vasco on Hispasat currently black?

    Audio is back. Jai Alai is just not the same without incomprehensible (to me) audio. All back to normal. Thanks much for feedback.
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    Canal Vasco on Hispasat currently black?

    Thanks. looks like they are working on it, picture is back but no sound. I wrote them a polite note through the website contact page to report it, but the picture back is probably a coincidence.
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    Canal Vasco on Hispasat currently black?

    Until a few days ago I was getting a good signal from Canal Vasco. Now I see a signal registering but no picture or sound. The Galician channel next door is good and strong with pic and sound, so the dish/lnb/diseqc/cable receiver chain appears to be good. Maybe I'm missing some news that it has...
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    AMC6 KU looks a bit empty?

    Both dishes needed adjustment. The second dish is mounted on a motor, I don't use it a lot, the board it is bolted to had a screw work loose due to a fair amount of high wind we have had, so it too was not correctly pointed, but only just enough not to find the sat. The motor dish was picking up...
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    AMC6 KU looks a bit empty?

    It could be a cat-sized critter clambering over my dish support structure. It's an adventure playground for raccoons, fishers, squirrels, mink, ermine and such. My cat is pretty fat and does not climb on the structure very much, but he has the weight if he were to get twisted up in cable and...
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    AMC6 KU looks a bit empty?

    Guys, your input very helpful. Repointed now coming in strong at 69%. I can tweak it some more. Now I just have to figure out what kind of creature was heavy enough to swing on my cables and dish to twist the dish about 10 deg off line (it was pretty tight) and snap the connector off my diseqc...
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    AMC6 KU looks a bit empty?

    Thanks for feedback, I will start from scratch again.
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    AMC6 KU looks a bit empty?

    I'm not picking up any of the usual feeds on AMC6 KU, since about last weekend. Tried 2 different dishes but nothing on either one KU. Maintenance or change of policy by NBC?
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    Signal issues with 3740 TP on AMC 1

    Moved to 10 footer, Coolsat is now reporting 72% with good reception. Edit: so any recommendations for using a now freed-up 6 footer?
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    Signal issues with 3740 TP on AMC 1

    Yes, problems here too. I noticed something changed about 5 days ago, suddenly that TP was very hard to tweak on my 6 footer with a Coolsat 6000 Premium even though signal level at 67-68% which is normally lots of signal. Setting up on spare 10 footer.
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    PBS ANNOUNCES HIGH DEFINITION FEED FOR BACKYARD DISH USERS

    Here's a thought. If the lnb is bang in the centre of the mount but tilted slightly in one direction (as it can be if there is a bit of play in the mount and you only have one tightening bolt, for example), the opening of the lnb viewed from the dish will appear to be oval and not circular. It...
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    PBS ANNOUNCES HIGH DEFINITION FEED FOR BACKYARD DISH USERS

    I'm wondering why this would be the case, that two signals from the same satellite should appear to need a slight tweak to peak them individually? When conditions are ideal, during the day, evenings, dry air etc. both channels come in fine. Problem occurs say in very early morning when the air...
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    PBS ANNOUNCES HIGH DEFINITION FEED FOR BACKYARD DISH USERS

    My experience with the clear channel PBS on my 6 footer is that if I tune for DW-TV clarity then PBS goes weak. If I tune for PBS then DW-TV goes weak. Working on it...
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    PCI PCIe

    Since most newer boxes these days come with PCIe slots and frequently no PCI slots at all, how are satellite card manufacturers responding, and how do existing PCI owners deal with a box which has no PCI slots?
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    Classic Arts @ 97W Analog

    From Classic Arts Showcase Galaxy 19 Transponder 6 Analog Frequency 3820Mhz Digital Frequency 3836Mhz Symbol Rate 3.00Msps FEC ¾ Net ID 101 I think they forgot to say it is Vertical, I'll send them a note
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    Classic Arts @ 97W Analog

    Isn't that interesting - I wrote to Classic Arts a few years ago asking if they might consider a move to a more centrally located bird but they said no. This will make it much easier for me to maintain a fix on that channel, keeping a big dish focused on birds at the extremes of the arc seems to...
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    Coolsat 6000 behaving oddly

    Deleted 4 satellite entries with about 50 stns each, no difference, still the same symptoms. Will keep trying various options.
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    Coolsat 6000 behaving oddly

    Coolsat 6000 has been running well, daily, for several years. Recent issues have me puzzled. I use the favourites to mix and match channels. Mostly it works good flipping from one ch/sat to another. Now jumping to a Hispasat channel from another bird results in a good signal according to the...
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    Anyone in Iowa looking for a C-Band system?

    Sea-band - sounds like in the tropics where a big dish needs to be about horizontal to get signal, you can line the dish with plastic and fill with water, thus re-recreating the Naumachia of the Roman Colosseum.
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    Looking for volunteer to be interviewed for article about FTA

    DigitalJournal.com
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    Looking for volunteer to be interviewed for article about FTA

    Hi guys: I'm proposing to to an article for an online magazine about the meaning of true FTA in the world post-Nagra3. The main point will be to reveal what FTA really means, enjoying unencrypted signals offered freely by broadcasters. I'm looking for a couple of good souls who would be...
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    Managed obscurity?

    Some interesting thoughts here. If I am reading correctly there are concerns about a) availability of programming, b) availability of receivers, and c) ongoing improvement in features on hardware. I see the advent of extremely-difficult-to-crack encryption as good. May I ask whether there has...
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    Any one use a TV video transmitter (UHF or VHF) to help in dish tuning?

    I see there are now some WiFi capable digital frames. I know they are designed mainly to view stored images, but I was wondering if they come with software that would transmit video from the main box over WiFi to the frame?
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    AMC-1 WCPE

    I was puzz;led by changes on AMC-1 recently. For some time WCPE was available on the TV side (not radio side) under MS91 with video of Huntington Beach and audio WCPE. Then suddenly the audio disappeared. OK I thought they have a problem but it went on for weeks. Kept on blind scanning FTA on...
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