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    AZBOX AZ Premium current sat/trspndr list available?

    MarkVA, sorry for the belated reply. I plan on installing the latest firmware this coming week and setting up a completely new satellite/tr list. At this point I will just start from scratch. Not sure how it will turn out because currently the box has become really quirky. Hopefully the new...
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    AZBOX AZ Premium current sat/trspndr list available?

    Thanks RADAR for the reply. I searched around for a recent list but no luck. Have started modifying your old list to bring it up current. Trying to get this box to act nice is a real challenge and have had to reload old list several times. If there was a more user friendly, less quirky...
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    AZBOX AZ Premium current sat/trspndr list available?

    I am still using RADAR'S sat/tr list from some 18 months ago. Was hoping an updated list is available to save a little time in the scanning process. Thanks for any assistance. Ron
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    How to speed up AzBox slews?

    Cham, I appreciate your reply. Even though I don't have any experience in doing this type of project it sounds like this is what's necessary to speed up the dish slews. I have a question about polarity and voltage: If the polarity is controlled by the voltage level (18V=H and 13V=V) then...
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    How to speed up AzBox slews?

    Thanks for the idea. Guess I'll need to keep a little better track of which is horizontal and and which is vertical. It looks like my idea about using some type of power inserter is not a good one based on the lack of any confirmations. Ron
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    How to speed up AzBox slews?

    I am using an Azbox Premium HD receiver in conjunction with two 1 meter dishes. The nearest dish to the receiver is about 175 feet away and it is a fixed dish. The other dish is approx 225 feet away from the receiver and mounted on Disequc H-H mount, DG380. The coax cable from the farthest...
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    AZBOX Problem downloading new channel list - Azbox Premium HD

    RADAR: Good to hear from you again. Don't know if you remember but back when I was first learning the AzBox you sent me a copy of your channel list. I uploaded it into my Box and it is still in use to this day...thanks so much for the jump start. During that learning period I found out the...
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    AZBOX Problem downloading new channel list - Azbox Premium HD

    Stargaze, I keep all the old workable sat/channel lists and so i just kept going back into the library until I found one that the Azbox would accept. Once I had AMC21 reestablished in the Sat list then the blind scan did the rest. These Azbox's sure are nice when they are working but are a...
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    AZBOX Problem downloading new channel list - Azbox Premium HD

    Cham, Thanks for the reply. Before making any changes in the channel list I downloaded the existing channel list from the AzBox to my PC, using Maz. Then I used the AzBox remote to delete all the transponders on AMC 21, which of course also deleted the satellite from the active list. I then...
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    AZBOX Problem downloading new channel list - Azbox Premium HD

    I'm having an unusual problem that I haven't experienced before. I have owned the Premium HD (firmware ver. 0.9.5020) unit for about 1 1/2 years and after the first teething problems it has worked fine. I should say here that the AzBox User Guide was a tremendous help in getting started. I...
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    OFFSET DISH ON AN “ALT-AZ” MOUNT

    HINDU55 Now that is a great site!! The first thing I noticed is the need to set the skew to 34 deg. The calibration scale on the Invacom lnbf only goes to 30 deg so I imagined there would be no need to even turn it that far. Now I can see I was not adjusting it far enough. I look forward to...
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    OFFSET DISH ON AN “ALT-AZ” MOUNT

    I have rotated the lnbf in both directions from center as I move the dish east and west. This seems to improve the signal strength slightly but not enough to bring in a viewable signal. I don't know how much it is suppose to rotate from a center position when I move the dish west from 101.0 W...
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    OFFSET DISH ON AN “ALT-AZ” MOUNT

    Sorry, I meant AMC 21. Brain cramp!!!
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    OFFSET DISH ON AN “ALT-AZ” MOUNT

    I have recently mounted a 1.2m GeoSat offset dish on an “Alt-Az” mount (in astronomy this is what we call a mount that moves strictly in latitude and longitude). The problem I’m having is getting the dish to acquire a strong signal in any position except due south. As I move the dish east...
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    UPDATING DVBS.DAT FILE IN DISK1/DISK2_BACKUP

    A funny thing happened on the way to updating… I decided to take the conservative route and continue trying to use ACC to send updated files to both Disk2 and hopefully the Disk1/Disk2_backup/DVBS.dat file. Because my current version of ACC seemed not to get the job done, I did a complete...