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The site at Place satellite dish using sun or moon used to allow you to "use sun or moon to choose the best place for your satellite antenna." While there are (I think) other sites that will let you use the sun, that was the only one I knew of that would let you use the moon. It used to...

Assuming that you can be certain that anything you cut out of the trees will not fall on your house, car, garage or storage buildings, or your neighbor's property, etc. and that there are no wildlife babies making a home in the part of the tree you need to cut off, you might take a look at...

I would be really interested to know if anyone has successfully used this method to block 5G signals. I see that it did not work for N6BY so I just wonder if it has worked for anyone. What we really need is an LNB where the upper threshold of the lower filter is user-adjustable, so that you...

Figures. I had hoped maybe it was back in the clear.

Are you actually able to receive video and audio? My TBS6985 card will let me scan the channels into Tvheadend but nothing will actually play. The PBS mux comes in fine so I don't think the dish is out of alignment, at least not by much.

I think readings are relative, using a TBS 6985 tuner card for PBS I get SNR 12.4 dB and Signal Strength -47.8 dBm but it's quite possible that even a different TBS tuner card would report those differently. As for NBC, I can scan in their mux and it shows the four time zone feeds as well as...

If by some chance you are still using the old zap2xml.pl script... sed -i 's/zap2it/gracenote/g' zap2xml.pl or if you are using it in Tvheadend and don't want to change all your EPG sources links... Edit zap2xml.pl and change the urlRoot value to $urlRoot = 'https://tvlistings.gracenote.com/';

Don't forget that in addition to the OTA channels they could also offer the free ad supported channels (PlutoTV, TubiTV, Plex, etc.). I don't know if there would be any legal requirements around that but as a non-lawyer I would not think so because it would be the guest choosing to watch, and...

Thanks for the update, and I am actually happy to hear you are holding out for a high quality product. I discovered that the "interference" I thought was 5G was actually caused by poor design of the tuner card I was trying to use, and switching to a different tuner solved the issue, so that...

Okay, Scott, I understand your reasoning, however I will say this is not the norm - most other forums let you go back an edit posts even after quite some time. As for removing bad information in posts, I would attribute that to a sincere desire to remove bad information, not to make the member...

Just to confirm what I wrote above, see my post at TBS5580 - Third time's the charm? which confirms that it is NOT 5G interference that is the problem, it is something about the TBS6903-X card that is wonky. And yes, I wrote TBS6910SE above when I meant to say TBS6903-X! I REALLY wish this...

After the failures with the TBS6910SE and the TBS6903X, I tried a USB connected tuner, specifically the TBS5580. Same dish, same LNB, connected to the same Tvheadend backend, but this time it appears to be working with no signs of the "interference" that plagued the TBX6903X. Unlike the USB...

Well, my final verdict is this: The TBS6910SE card is probably going to be returned. When I made my previous post I had assumed the issue was 5G interference, although that seems strange for a couple of reasons, one being that I am in a semi-rural area and there are no towers that I'm aware of...

I went out today and re-peaked the dish and I am getting a good strong signal but the problem persists. My guess is that it seems that DVB-S2X is far more susceptible to 5G(?) interference. I have never had an issue with that before, even with that same dish and LNB, but the interference I am...