Recent content by pakkratt

Thanks for all the advice. Changed Firefox, also went to a programing page of Dish's and found a URL to access Zap2it which worked OK. Benchmarked that site. Problem solved!

I have been trying to access Zap2it all morning but Norton Internet Security program keeps giving me this message: "Reported Attack Page! This web page at tvlistings.zap2it.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences...

Servos that act like this are an old story. The cure is to connect a 500 to 1000 ufd/ 35V t0 50V electrolytic capacitor across the power leads out at the servo, not at your receiver. Radio Shack will have one. It has worked for me twice. Try it. Dale

[SNIP] You may have your satellites lined up wrong. CSPAN is on C3/7 not G1/7

I got a call last night from someone who identified as calling from SRL (probably, I'm hard of hearing.) He said that SRL is going out of business on Jan. 1. I had him repeat it three times. After I said he was full of BS he started to give me a sales pitch anyway at which time I hung up. He...

Guide problem Years ago, the same question was posed on another forum. The reply said the problem was caused by another receiver manufacturer that had patented/copyrighted/whatever the concept of having the guide point to exactly the program being tuned to. To get around the legalities, the...