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    On the road with DirecTV

    Well, well, well.... First as always thanks to those to read and replied. Second, a "GOOD" compass and the correct magnetic declinatin helped. I was hitting 109 and as soon as I tweaked the antenna to the correct azimuth setting life was good. However I'm guessing that the transponders for my...
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    On the road with DirecTV

    Well I'm leaving New Mexico and heading for Tucson today. When I make camp I'll breakout the old magnetic direction pointer and recheck my AZ and EL again. Heck I'm close enough to Roswell that who knows what I'm picking up ;-)
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    On the road with DirecTV

    Well that's the wierd part. When I run the "test" under the setup I get no signal on ANY transponder. Is it possible that I'm hitting a Dish bird??
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    On the road with DirecTV

    First time on the road with DirecTV in my RV. Tested system before leaving and all was well. First time I tried it on the road, pointed dish and tweaked using "toner" Go into RV and the system is not locked and searching for bird.:confused: The system is very straight forward. Dish -...
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    Master Setup Remote Control Philips / Magnavox

    Thanks Stan. Finally got my hands on a new green remote. Of the 7 TV's 3 of them won't change thier programming. I have googled for a couple of days now but there doesn't seem to be much info online about configuring commercial TV's Any idea on where to get a service manual for a Philips TV...
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    Master Setup Remote Control Philips / Magnavox

    This isn't specific to anything to do with DSS, but I just took over a job at a resort with Philips Hotel / Instutional TV's and the last tech either took with or never had the Master Setup Remote for the TV's here. Our channel line up has changed and now I need to re-program the TV's...
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    Mixing CH3 & CH4 RF Signals

    My Ghetto Sparts bar is da' bomb Got the sc-4, and now I've got two sports channels on every wall in my ghetto sparts bar, AKA my basement rec room on my $5 a piece hotle auction TV's!
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    How to calculate signal loss when using a combiner?

    If the insertion loss is -4dB then each signal is attenuated by the same amount. 14 - 4 = 10 24 - 4 =20 Signal matching depends on the application. If you do need to attenuate the signal you use an inline attenuator.
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    How to avoid egress, signal leakage-Directv/ota

    Grounding is a good thing Bonding all equipment to a commom earth ground. Use high quality quad shield cable. High quality connectors on every connection, no twist on RG59 BS. :rolleyes:
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    Mixing CH3 & CH4 RF Signals

    I have a four D* receiver setup. Dual thingy dish, multi switch and lots of pretty silver connectors on miles of RG6. Everything is A OK with the system. :cool: For reasons that are WAY to complicated to explain without beer I want to take two of the receivers, set ones RF output to...