Recent content by NiftyRed

Final update. I replaced the cable, and re-aligned the dish and now have a much better signal then I had after the original install. Thank you for the hand holding Merry Christmas

Update - after some time on the roof I have 119 and 129, no 110. However, I also found a bad cable, it has a 18 inch split in the cover - I will replace the cable before trying to zero in on 110.

good suggestion, I will start by getting the 110 back. elevation, angle and azimuth for my area code are: 210 46 121 Thanks Dennis

Temple, Texas 76502, Thanks

Could some one give me some suggestions on getting the tilt correct so I can get the 110/129 links. I spent 2 hours last night talking to dish techs (3 dropped calls but finally got a rep with limitied English skills) - her only solution was to pay $99 for a dish rep to come out to my house...

I was able to modify my existing Voom dish and got locked into the Voom channels lastnight. After I showed my dish installer how to get my OTA amplified ant hooked up he gave me the parts I needed to hack my original voom dish - ie I hooked in for payment of the monthly $5 subscription fee.

After reading these posts several times + some trial and error this was my solution: I used the original Voom dish, a LNBF, DP34 (both provided by my installer). The adapter given to me by my installer for the LNBF prevents the dish from "focusing" and results no/poor signal lock (it is 4...