Recent content by dogstar1313

I was afraid of that. Oh well, I'll continue to be a one TV kinda guy for a while longer. Thanks for the clarification Iceberg.

After reading Iceberg's review of the Buzz S2010F I'm a wee bit confused (but hey, that's not new) :-) The review was great, but I have one point of confusion about AC3 audio. Ice states in the review that the Buzz can't do AC3, but the receiver specifications say that it has an optical output...

I just tried it again with Firefox and I get the same results as yesterday. I can load the initial page, but clicking any links takes me to a blank screen. It works fine in IE though.

Thanks for all the great suggestions! As I mentioned earlier, when I initially set my dish up it was dead on all across the arc using USALS and now USALS isn't even close. It doesn't appear to be elevation that's the problem. It's definitely azimuth as switching to 1.2 and bumping about five or...

I think that most popular FTA receivers like the ones Pete mentioned are digital only. Maybe Pete or another member can confirm or deny that for us.

Thanks Pete! I'll give that a shot. I like those solutions that don't involve me getting on a ladder in the winter time. :-) Although our winters here in Tennessee have been more like rainy seasons the last decade or so thanks to global warming.

Being a network guy myself here's a possible solution that I propose: You could build a receiver like what you describe by building a PC in a rack mount case and slap one or more PCI DVB Sat cards in it and a NIC card and you could control it remotely over IP. The method of remote control would...

Is there such a thing as motor drift? The reason I ask is that when I first installed my system my dish was aligned so that using USALS every bird was right on the money. Now after several months it's gotten to the point where USALS doesn't even get me anywhere close enough to the correct...

That's a good question. Unfortunately I do not know the answer. :-) That might explain why my el cheapo meter has a light on it that says 22Khz tone detected though. I wondered why there would be a need for such an indicator. I always use it with a battery back though so I never had a voltage...

I'm located in Tennessee and speaking from my personal experience with my 76cm dish I can say that you may not be able to receive some of the weaker transponders up there, but for 96% of the Ku FTA stuff up there you should be fine.

I'm glad to hear about this new channel. I'm always happy at an opportunity to view the world from different viewpoints. It's up to the individual to separate the wheat from the chaff. I have a personal motto that has worked very well for me thus far in my life and that is that friends and...

I'm betting you have a Pansat receiver. My Pansat does that 0-90 quality dance when the quality level is really really really low. What transponder are you looking at on G10R when it does this?

As ftadirect mentioned in the other post he references, there is a software update on the manufacturer's website that is supposed to add the blind scan feature for the Viewsat receivers. I don't have a Viewsat so I cannot speak from experience.

I too have noticed the cold weather effect you speak of. My guess is that it is due to the lower humidity in the air during really cold weather. As for the Republicans, keep on blaming them. God knows they are responsible for most of the evils in the world, FTA and otherwise. ;-)

Left and right arrows on the remote while on the movement option will get you what you want.