Recent content by Joel V

Got tired of screwing around, so I got up there and took the bull by the horns with my fiance on the other line looking at the signal strength. I somehow was able to get 101 in the 95-100 range with 99 and 103 running in the 80's and 90's without messing with the fine tuning knob or dithering...

I downloaded an app called AR Satellite. It redirects me their webpage and wants me to download an AR marker for what looks like a Russian satellite and print that out and...I'm not entirely sure what?? Do you have the cheat sheet?

Thanks Bob, that is pretty much a synopsis of what I have been able to cobble together in a few hours of surfing, all in one post. Now that the weekend is here and the weather is settled I can get back on this project. It sure has been a bummer relying on DVD reruns for the last few days...

I guess the real question now is if I will be able to fix this now without calling DirecTV out, with the fine tuning dial missing for the elevation component (still have the azimuth fine tune dial). I guess it is possible it popped off and caused this mess. We have had several weeks of high wind.

Now I see. I guess I should have taken some engineering electives. :o

Can't get any further south without running into Mexico.

78562. It was in an edit of the other post. After looking closely at it again, it appears that the fine tune knob for elevation is missing. Is it possible to purchase a replacement?

Another thing, I watched the video from Solidsignal, but it doesn't look like my dish has a finetuner for elevation.:confused:

Hmmmm. The dish arm is plumb, just climbed back up there and checked. I moved the elevation back to where it was at, and no signal at all. Are you talking about where the coax is hooked up the LNB? I was using the midpoint of the set bolt as my marker for elevation. The markings on the dish...

I recently moved and, since there is decent chance that I will have to move again in the near future, I decided to forego the Home Move package and hired a tech on the side to hook up my Slimline Swm dish. Everything was fine for about six weeks, and then my signal strength started to fade. At...