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They're going for around $10 plus $12 shipping on ebay. I picked up one a couple of days ago. It's still enroute so I don't know much else about it. The seller says he has 399 of them so they probably shouldn't go up in price. The currently running auction is still at the starting 99 cent...

The main reason they're on tripods is that I live in a travel trailer and move around. This week I moved the trailer from Vegas out to a marina on Lake Mead. I took a job working out here for the season. Only the internet dish is set up right now so all I can get FTA is NASA and some music. (110...

That is Star, the name changed a short time ago. The list on global-cm.net has a typo in it.

I can't find any specs on wind capacity for the HH120 motor. I haven't taken mine apart but I think I read somewhere that is has plastic gears in it. They might strip before the ones in the SM3D22. Plus Sadoun lists the replacement parts for the SM3D22. Here in the southern Nevada area we...

The Fortec Lifetime Classic NA lets you see whats playing in the channel manager screen where you delete/rename/move channels. I really wish you hadn't posted all the other features of the Mercury II :) Now you've got me thinking that maybe I should move my less than 2 months old Fortec to...

I don't think you should select a receiver based on whether or not it's been hacked. By your standard no one could have a real subscribed DN receiver. Even the firmware in the real DN receivers has been hacked. For the most part the ones that haven't been hacked are ones that there's no hacker...

The Fortec Classic NA starts moving right away if you just hit up and down channel buttons. However, if you hit the remotes SAT button, pick the sat you want (or ALL), and then hit right arrow it brings up a list of channel names that you can scroll thru without moving the dish until you...

Warning: It's addictive. I thought I had the will-power to resist the Siren song of the other satellites. I was wrong. Originally I ordered just a receiver to just get G10R using an old 75e dish I had sitting around. I lasted almost 2 weeks before I gave in to the urges and was back at Sadoun...

No Tim, I have an Invacom QPH-031 LNBF which is a standard LNB. Maybe it's just that my quality is a hair lower than yours. Or maybe the receiver in your Fortec is just a little stronger than mine. Or the gremlins in my receiver were awake when I scanned and your's were sleeping. :) Stefan...

Maybe, mine is a little lower, a solid 46 with occasional jumps to 53-55. However, other sats I've scanned have found transponders way lower than that. I just re-ran the scans again, the default blind scan (step by 6) looks at 12135 and 12141. Neither one has enough strength to see 12140 as...

DiSEqC splitter? DiSEqC aren't splitters, they're switches. Almost the reverse of splitters. :) The "4 output" is really the 4 input and should be going to LNB, not the receiver. In fact, if you only have one dish you don't need one at all, just hook the LNB to the receiver directly. You...

Same here, my Fortec Lifetime Classic NA never found it with blind scan either. After the first post in this thread I blind scanned the sat again with both the default 6 scan step and a 4 step. Neither one found this transponder. Once I manually added the transponder it found the channel...

The SM3D22 Sadoun sells that I mentioned does have a 40mm (1 5/8") shaft. See http://www.sadoun.com/Sat/Products/SATCONTROL/SaTracer-3SW-SM3D22-Satcontrol-HH-diseqc-MOTOR.htm

Try all electronics http://www.allelectronics.com/matrix/Radial_Electrolytic_Cap.html You can ignore the 85C temp rating.

I was just reading the stuff on motosat's website, the unit weighs 105 pounds if it's the small one that looks like a Starband or Primestar oval 75e dish. The motors do control elevation, azimuth, and skew. All the docs for installing and rewiring it are on motosat's website. It appears...