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here are a few picture of my gin pole here. got this in 93, and it was the heavy duty alum model that was made at the time, it will lift or lower a 12-solid fiber glass dish with ease. the winch will brake either up or down too, nice for when you need hands free. the last picture is the...

why don't you do a Roan TVRO mount? if you want it on the roof. Saw Horse Antenna Roof Mount - Learn about the ROHN SHRM

if you can weld and work with steel, and have the tools and no how, you may want to think about making a polar mount for it Phlatwound. you just need to think about over building it when selecting you're steel, like in a heavy gauge 3/8" to 3/4" material. as far as a actuator to move it, wile...

Yes you can take a old satellite list from older FW and use it with newer FW, you will have the same satellites listed with their Tp's and LO with the switch settings but no TV or radio channels will show up. I know because I did it here, and my thoughts where that it would not work but it is...

I only have used Diseqc 1.2 here also. with a Elite, and a Ultra. the only time that mine will not wake up the G-box is if it is on 1 of my fixed satellites that I do not have a Diseqc 1.2 turn on and boot the receiver, but if I call up a satellite that is with a motor location no problem at...

I use several orthos here, 3 dual C & Ku, and 3-dual single band ortho. now the problem by converting 1 of these switches to output 18-V on all 4-ports is their wimpy wall wart that they have for their power supply, pluss you are limited to the voltage output of it's regulator. now a lot depends...

normally this has more to do with a lnb an it's stability to lock TP's with in a 1 or 2-mhz separation between TP's. most of you're standard lnb's and lnb-f's can be off by 2 to 3-mhz as by today's standards are, then trying to lock a week TP with in 2-mhz of a stronger TP most receivers will...

Thanks for the reply gabshere, I just thought that you might of known the magic number, my G-box handles it fine, and so did a DSR922 when I was setting it up with that high of a count. and Yes B.J. you are right on with all that you mention. now their are several areas that a person needs to...

are you using the 5020 fw??

Please tell me what is too much, I would like to know. all of my home brew reed set ups, I do try and strive for a high count, and I thought the same thing, but never have reached that point as of yet. now when I set up my ChannelView last year, and was test running it I thought it was going to...

only if that satellite has NEVER had a position # store before, if it has been stored with a position # and you want to change that position # to a different #, now you have to use a editor to do the changing.

Hi B.J. I have 2 move-able ku dishes, a 90cm and a 1.8-meter Channel Master. now on the 90cm it is a old Eagle dish it is a very heavy but solid built, the motor that is on it is a Pansat-900 it has been running it since late 2004, before then had a SG-2100 on it and it did not last a year...

all is right on for the info sanjap gave you. but you may want to store 2 satellites with the same number for the g-box, and this will be only for some dual satellites that are C & Ku satellites, so if you ever have to re-program the g-box you don't have to do both sats. in the DiseqC mode...

I use AZbox edit 2880, you can also use Maz and I have used both 2.3 an 3.0, but with Maz you can NOT send it back to the receiver, it will corrupt you list if you use MAZ to send it back, but not with the 2880.

when storing the position locations in the AZ, their is no need to return back to "Go to Position", just select you're position number or leave it on auto and click on save (you should see the G-box blink with the number that was saved), then exit out of the 1.2 part of the menu. now as far...