Recent content by kuperman

I got FTA because of my wife being wowed by it at a couple friends' homes. She asked and asked for almost two years to get me to get something set up, and finally, when we built our new house, I did. Sure, it's just a motorized 90cm dish, but it picks up all of the Farsi & Arabic programming she...

When I first put up the dish, my neighbors were asking what it was for. My wife is on bad terms with them so I (jokingly) told them it was to pick up the Jihad Channel. They left me alone. When I got it up and running, I found that Al Manar is no longer FTA LOL :/

A win and an upgrade would be awesome!

Tight. Any recommendations? I tried looking around but kept trying to filter out all the DTV/Dish/FTA stuff ... with little to no luck. I really have no idea what I'm looking for...

OK, so really dumb question. I've got a 36" dish, Fortec Platinum NA receiver (that I am NOT trying to hack, thank you very much), Stab HH90 and Invacom Universal LNBF - could I get a cheap analog Ku receiver and ... not sure what the proper terminology is ... chain them together? How would...

Brought the receiver and a small TV outside, and stood on a ladder to get my rig fixed this weekend. So much better than trying to walkie-talkie with the wife! The dish mount on the motor attachment pole (not the mast) was the problem : once I got it all sorted out (read: straightened out) I...

Dude, that setup is hawt. Shame my neighborhood probably won't let me do big dish (that and there's really no place for it in the back yard)

OK, well, that makes a little more sense. For pure laughs (even though I knew it had no chance of working) I tried getting the setup to spin over to Hispasat but it kind of just laughed at me and didn't even bother moving. No big deal, my Spanish is just terrible so it's not a big loss.

Here's what I did wrong. http://64.78.51.244/download/HH90TEST.pdf On page 13 of that PDF, check out #9. Mine looks like "NO." :) The stock Fortec mount that came with my system didn't really have anything to line it up with, so I had to eyeball it. I did so - poorly. Once underneath...

Nah, unfortunately on the Stab HH90 motor I've got you have to use a U-bolt type device to put the dish on the motor post. Doesn't exactly make it foolproof system (they say get the line straight up and down, but with what I've got I kind of had to eyeball it). I'll get it fixed right in the...

I'm talking about the piece that comes down from the motor that the dish is attached to. It's not perfectly straight on that, so the motor attachment to the mast was calibrated to compensate. This is why I can get things at the top of the arc, but it loses quality when you get further away from...

So, I got my dish mounted on the roof using the SuperDish mount from Sadoun and the RetroDeck mounting bracket from SmartHome. Dish is up and aligned ... and working ... kind of. After everything was up and on, I realized why I can't get everything a few degrees off from true south (91). I've...

I very well may take you guys up on your offers! I don't think getting the mounts up is going to be the hard part... but the aligning of the dish/motor, etc. That's what's going to end up being tricky. Probably going to take a stab at this not this coming weekend but next.

Guys, it looks like I'm going to have to go this one alone. All attempts to find a pro to do this are coming up nil - the one guy I could actually verify that's local that can do this sort of thing won't return my calls. I'm thinking about this roof mount, but I need a mount/mast like the one in...

So I got my first FTA setup from Sadoun. It is sweet. I guess, not sure yet. I ran all my cables through the attic, fished cable through the walls. I even mounted the 36" dish and motor. But I get nothing. Nil on the signal. I fought with it for two days. It's probably that pesky tree line on...