Recent content by Steve Mackay

Just because the curvature is different the heaters designed for direct TV seem to have enough articulation to accommodate different dish shapes. I was thinking the low power of an official heater might be more energy efficient than running 110v for 2x 100w Kat's heating pads. Maybe I can wire...

Those Kat's hot pad heaters look like a good cheap alternative. Due to the size of the dish it looks like I'd need 2 and put them either side of the mounting bracket. I'm interested in why you said not use the DTV heater? Wrong bolt pattern? It should work, it's just heat? If the whole setup...

I've been looking for a dish heater for this coming winter. I've looked online and I see quite a few that are "Direct TV" dish heaters but none for Dish Network. Is there a specific heater I should buy for my Dish Network dish? I assume the DTV heaters will work the Dish Network dishes but...

Cheers Splicer, That's just what I was looking for.

We have just remodeled our house and the last thing I'm doing is setting up the new HD TV and home theater system. Our outside junction box is pretty broken and leaks. I need to find another one but I can't find aything suitable in Home Depot. Our exisiting box measures about 10"x13" and I...

I thought I posted this yesterday but it must have gotten burried. Sorry for the re-post if someone found it somewhere else. It's hard to find a 5.1 receiver these days all of them seem to be 7.1 but my room is too small for a 7.1 system (and there are no good placements fot eh extra 2). Can...

I'm remodelling the living room and putting in a new HD LCD TV (questions on that for another thread). I have a wireless network in the house to connect my laptop & desktop to the net. Is there a device that can can use to connect to my new TV's VGA input that I can send...

Buy an LNB off EBAY for $10 and send it back to them. They won't know it's not the one with your unit.

Could water/ice in junction box be problem? With the constant opening and closing of the junction box by the service companies it has gotten cracked and I'm not sure if it is water tight anymore. This was another complaint of the Comcast guy, that the dish network guys stuffed all their...

Not sure if grounded - look where? Where would the cable and satellite system be grounded? I assume you are meaning the shielding of the RG6 needs to be grounded through the connector somehow? Where should I look? I'm pretty sure something is happening to the modem. The cable guy says we...

So I've been having problems with my cabel internet service from Comcast recently. The comcast guy comes out on Sunday and basically is fuming at the dish network people screwing up the cable modem. I basically have cable TV, Dishnetwork (DVR 522) and a cable internet running in the house...

Thanks Thanks for the advice guys. The install guys never called back today like they promised so I'll get on the blower to them. Later Steve

Great picture BFG, Thanks, I think I've thought of an issue which I'll come back to in a minute. Let me try make sure I understand your suggestion. The signal for the 522 comes in on a diplexed line as does the 322 signal. The output from both receivers goes to the combiner (which I...

If I diplex the backfeed chanels on the same line the signal came in on, then I only need 1 new line running to each satellite? Sorry I don't undertsand the modulate option. I know there is some box called a modulator that I think takes a digital signal and makes it analogue? So I'd combine...

I've just moved house. The housing association fee's include comcast cable at a bulk discount rate and includes OLN, HBO and some movie channels. The wife (ok and I) wanted a dual tuner DVR for obvious reasons. Decided to start up a new Dish account and have both dish and cable. What is...