Recent content by CoachS

Did it -- CM GainMaster working with Voom Nevermind, PSB, figured it out. Just placed the Voom LNB in the center Sat. C spot of my 36" X 24" GainMaster dish and pointed it at the 61.5 Voom sat. with the proper elevation and skew I got from one of the calculators your web site links to so...

How to find exact direction and skew for DirecTV Phase IIIs? PSB, can you explain a little more how we would find the exact direction we would point our Phase IIIs (since you mention in your post it won't actually be toward the the 61.5 sat) and how to find the new skew adjustment? So we...

How do we determine skew adjustment? For those of us trying to line up our existing DirecTV oval dishes (36" X 24" Gainmaster here") to improve signal strength, is there a simple way to determine the skew adjustment we would use? Is it simply the difference between our line of longitude and...

and... This didn't really answer jagouar's question which would be mine, also, about whether a DirecTV oval dish would work at all with Voom. And I doubt Voom's will be twice the size of mine -- I have a 36" X 24" Gainmaster dish from Channel Master. The question is can we former DirecTV...

Wow, that sucks but thanks for the info, riffjim. They should change their slogan to "HD delivered but not permanently recordable". DVRs do you no good when you want to archive.

As an early adopter with a JVC D-VHS recorder, has there been any announcement of yes or no on this issue as far as future Voom STBs go? I'm a teacher that loves wowing my kids with stuff I have recorded in HD from DiscoveryHD but right now, that means getting hosed every month by having to pay...