Recent content by manowell

At my house that's called "I put it in a safe place".

Heh. And he's posted here, too!

I found two threads, "Directv Slimline for FTA" and "Dishes to re-purpose", nothing really applicable. Saw a note from one user that mentions his modded Slimline, I'm reaching out to him.

I'd like to mod my slimline for Orby, any notes or guides?

I've tried lining these up, and no good at all. I have the DirecTV slimline HD mount with the fine adjusting screws. The three holes to rotate for skew on it are upside down (two on top, one on bottom) from the Orby bracket. I got one of the DirecTV Worldview dishes from SolidSignal, same...

This did the trick on the first try, hooked it up like the Zinwell shown in another post.

I'm in Dallas, Texas, with a wide open view of the sky. Best signal quality I can get with the V8 Finder meter that came with the self-install kit is 74%. Does that sound right?

I've tried the high-frequency splitters, that's where I'm at now. No matter where I install it's either "A" or "B". I'm ordering the Eagle Aspen 3x4 multiswitch, too.

That's a significantly larger reflector than the Orby supplied dish. Does it boost signal, as well?

This is for a RV install, replacing DirecTV. I have all of the DirecTV stuff disconnected. Using the supplied diplexer I can get the first TV to work fine with the RV's amplified roof top antenna and Orby dish connected. no matter where I split the signal from the Orby dish, it seems, when I...

Yeah, the heavier DTV adjustment head with screw jack fine tuning was really what I was wanting to keep. Any change in performance from with Orby reflector to the DTv reflector?

I'm trying out the basic OrbtyTV dish and DVR receiver, liking what I see so far for the price and lack of contract required. I have a bunch of DirecTV stuff now that's surplus, as I transition is there a LNB that works well with Orby that will fit the rectangular end of a DirecTV LNB arm, and...

Sounds good, thanks. Like this?

"Portable" and "RV" are the keywords. Not worried at all about what's up there later. :-)

Then, how big of a "hole to the sky" do I need to get the three main DTV satellites? This is a view from the DishPointer Pro Android App. I'm not saying this is enough of a window, but an example I can illustrate. It seems to me at a hole at least the size of the slimline dish is needed...