Recent content by Arion

I’ve had a few 22khz switches go tango uniform before and not sure why. I’m assuming water ingress over time even though I thought they were sealed pretty good. My experience is they kick the bucket after two or three years so like most other things keep spares on hand.

Do a blindscan for transponders only. When finished it will show you a screen with all the transponders it found. Just select the transponder(s) you want scanned for new channels and only that transponder will be scanned leaving the rest alone. And before you scan you can select if you want...

Last fall I rented a 55' diesel lift to cut down trees and limbs. Been a long time since I was in a harness and hard hat but about half as expensive as hiring a tree service. Still cost me about $1700 to rent that lift for three days though.

The NASA 4k feed appears to have cleaned up. On the edison it is playing fine now…at least for me. Under Setup, System, AV settings make sure you tick to allow 10 bit and 12 bit and it should play with no freezing. Currently using OpenPli with latest build.

Also wind loading comes into play. All things being equal a solid dish requires a stronger mount with more concrete in the base and a stronger pole.

If any part of your pole isn’t vertical your elevation is going to be screwed up. You have indicated binding and your threaded rod is off as well. Fix those issues. Regardless what your elevation is telling you your not aimed at the satellite.

Cheap trick. Just adjust your elevation to get the highest background noise reading even if your not locked on to a transponder and from there start moving from east to west to increase your background noise levels and you can be pretty sure your aimed at some sort of satellite. From there do...

This thread and the mini pc's in general have me thinking about getting an additional system using a card or usb receiver. I have an old Skywalker 1 that I haven't used in years now since I went to the apple platform as only the windows and BDA drivers were supported for it. I hate [despise...

Dish is probably out of round. Read this thread that I started on these dishes several years ago; https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/tek2000-10-mesh-dish-install-initial-review.369886/

AT&T bought a dying pig in a poke and now they are stuck with it. Kind of like buying Blockbuster as the VCR medium was dying and people started exploring streaming/downloading options. Sucks to be them.

Been very happy with my dish as Tek was basically the only source for a residential grade antenna new in the box. Very glad I bought it and it’s held up well to harsh Michigan winters. Just take Tek’s experience and multiply that by tens of thousands of businesses around the country...

It didn’t. Same orbital slot @ 125 west. Galaxy 30 and Music choice hasn’t come back up yet but it’s supposed to.

They switched satellites in the past few days and Music Choice is supposed to be back on transponder 22.

I have a Mio plus running OpenPli 7.3 and I have the NTP set to update every 5 minutes so that is an option at least with using OpenPli.

A bird dog is one of the best for consumers and DTH installers;