Recent content by cyoung1982

just an experiment. I currently dont have dish but have my local cable company and am sick of paying 50 bucks a month for less than 60 channels. I liberated a dish500 dish from being taken to the dumpyard by a neighbor who got directv instead and the installer just dumped the dish on the...

i have lots of 70e, 75e, and 84e dishes. i currently have 3 84e dishes setup for FTA pointed at the 101, 103 and 123 sats which are the ones i had in mind to retask into dish network dishes once I buy a receiver. I had planned on getting a 322 receiver since the way the cable guy setup the...

I have a bunch of channel master dishes laying around and have found a location to buy replacement parts to turn them into dish capable of recieving dish network signals. my idea is to set up 3 of these dishes, one at 110, one at 119 and one at 129 with dishpro lnb's on them. which switch...

Do you think this switch will work on the CNX Duo? That is the receiver I have with the latest 5.15 sw version. in the switch menu I only have 4 ports listed, however when I go to channel search I have Auto, 1, 2, 3, 4, none listed.

yes but I need either a Stab HH120 or a Sadoun PowerTech DG380 as the dish arm will need to point up since the primestar dishes have proprietary mounts. hence my problem.. they are both pretty expensive. and the biggest dish I have is a 84E which is a 1Meter eliptical dish. for 100 more I...

I have a bunch of old primestar dishes and currently have 3 setup as stationary. 1 at 123w, one at 103w, and one at 101w. I am wanting to go to a motorized setup but am having a hard time finding a stab hh120 motor. While I have found a couple of site that sell it, both sites have it over 100...

You're right. I just went and measured it for myself and its smaller than the primestar. I thought I had read somewhere though that the directway was engineered for better gain or somesuch but oh well. the weather is clearing up here some so I may go tinker afterwhile. I knew something was...

the last few nights I have noticed that on my setup the transponder on amc4 that the history channel is on has been getting randomly weak quality about 7 - 8pm centrla time then after about 8 it goes back to normal quality. I have a Directway Model 6000 pointed at that sat and in the past has...

I'm going to be concreting 2 or 3 poles into the ground on the south side of the house and was wondering how far apart I would need to mount them if using primestar dishes? currently I have one pole that is just dirtpacked into the ground with a 1m primestar pointed at amc4 for TWC but intend...

yeah everyone that has reviewed the mercury2 basically says the same thing you did. but so far I have not found any reviews for the Conaxsat Mini yet. oh well...will probably end up getting a Mercury2/Dynamic (everyone's webpage that sells both shows them as identical) anyway.

uhm..why would I want to have this 3rd party hack software? I am not interested in hacking the receiver...just knowing which one of the two is better for a beginner user.

Which of these two would you recommend? They both have about the same features. both have blind scan, the Merc2/dynamic stores 1000 channels more than the mini but the mini has 16megs more memory than the merc2/dynamic does, both do C band and KU band. I like the looks of the mini better but...

It looks like I wont beable toa fford the fortec stare this time around. Has any one had any dealings with the Match box Pro USB receiver or the Skystar 2 PCI card receiver? they are both within my price range at the moment. would hate to have to wait another month before I could get a...

I never saw a answer to my switch question and if it was answer I apologize as i must be over looking it. Will those switches work or will I have to buy some DiSEqC switches? Also what would be the best receiver to buy for a newbie? Right now i am looking at the Fortech Star Dynamic as it...

The dishes I got are not skewable themselves but I figured out how to skew the lnb after tinkering. you rotate the feedhorn and not the lnb so the screwholes and the bracket never moves. pretty clever way to hide the fact they are skewable.